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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday issued new guidance to federal prosecutors on how to apply the death penalty to numerous drug-related crimes.
Sessions advised federal prosecutors to utilize laws permitting capital punishment as a viable sentence, both in violent and non-violent cases.
In the memo sent to U.S. attorneys Wednesday morning, Sessions said that some
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Siding with a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a lower court to take another look at Carlos Ayestas’ request for money to fully investigate his claims of schizophrenia, brain injuries and similar issues.Known as mitigating evidence, such information is supposed to
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The normalisation of objectification and exploitation of women still persists…The London Festival of Architecture has launched a major new campaign that tackles discriminatory behaviour in the built environment and encourages industry leaders to commit to positive change.The campaign calls on21
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2018
William Montgomery, 52, is slated to die on Ohio’s lethal injection gurney on April 11 for the March 8, 1986, robbery-motivated killing of Debra Ogle. The families of murder victims deserve the truth about what happened to our loved ones. We want the offenders punished, but we certainly don't
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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for a Missouri inmate who argued that a medical condition could result in the process causing him undue suffering.Russell Bucklew was scheduled to die by injection Tuesday evening for killing a former girlfriend’s new boyfriend during a
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Tuesday marked the 23rd anniversary of a deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system, as speculation grows that members of the cult behind it could soon be executed.At Kasumigaseki Station, one of the targets of the attack, subway staff gathered at 8 a.m., around the same time the events
TOKYO (AP) — Thirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes. But when is uncertain. Such is the secrecy that surrounds Japan’s death penalty system.Tuesday marked 23 years since members of the Aum
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused again Monday to decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional.The action came in a case from Arizona in which lawyers asked the court to strike down both the state's capital punishment system and the nation's. The court's four liberal justices said
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Lawyers voted to pass a resolution calling for the death penalty to be abolished including for drug trafficking offences.The Malaysian Bar also passed a resolution during its 72nd annual general assembly calling for the immediate implementation of the Dangerous Drugs Act
Iran Human Rights (March 15, 2018): Two prisoners were hanged in public on the charge of armed robbery today. According to IRIB, on the morning of Thursday, March 15, two prisoners were hanged in public in Dogonbadan (the capital of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province). The two
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Asking questions under four main themes – with the central aim prevention.The Home Secretary has unveiled proposals for a landmark Domestic Abuse Bill – and invited the public to contribute views on how such a Bill should look.In February 2017, the Prime Minister announced a new ‘programme of22
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2018
SPEAKING before the country’s parliament, Singapore’s minister for home affairs, K Shanmugam, extolled the country’s success in fighting drugs. He attributed these results to Singapore’s harsh drug laws, which include the use of capital punishment.It may seem surprising to the uninitiated that
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2018
Even after the parole board refused to consider a prosecutor's rare plea for clemency, the condemned man at the center of a controversial death row case may have another shot at life after a favorable finding in Kerr County court.Jeff Wood, a Kerrville man with a low IQ, was sent to death row
On Monday, the Associated Press reported upon the death sentence that had been handed down for a member of the Sufi religious minority who was responsible for the deaths of 3 policemen during a large protest demonstration last month. Mohammad Salas claimed he had not intended to ram into the
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2018
‘The twisted logic of blaming women and girls for the violence and abuse they experience has to end’. On 2 March, 2018, the letter below was circulated through private emails and messages to women working within the aid sector throughout the world.The letter was drafted by Sarah MartinAn Iranian court on Monday handed down death sentence for a rioter that had driven a bus into a group of police officers during a February mob attack in north Tehran.Mohammad Salas, driver of the bus that killed 3 police forces and wounded a number of others during the February 19 disturbance on
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2018
US President Donald Trump has called for drug traffickers to face the death penalty as part of his plan to combat the US painkiller-addiction epidemic.He outlined the proposal during a speech in New Hampshire, a state badly affected by the opioid crisis.Mr Trump said his administration was
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2018
Convicted Singaporean drug trafficker Hishamrudin Mohd was hanged last Friday in the Changi Prison Complex after failing on the preceding day - in a final court bid - to reopen his case.Hishamrudin, 56, had been convicted of trafficking in 34.94g of diamorphine and sentenced to death by the High
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2018
On Tuesday, Missouri may administer a lethal injection to a convict with a condition called cavernous hemangioma. Lawyers for Russell Bucklew argue that the many tumors in his body could burst mid-execution and cause him to choke on his own blood. Which would be gruesome, and potentially
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman: "There is no such thing as individual terrorism, this terrorism is supported by Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority."In response to a Friday ramming attack resulting in the deaths of two IDF soldiers, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said he would seek
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2018
OSAKA - Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for a 25-year-old man who allegedly stabbed a man to death with a dagger and injured his three children at their home in Osaka Prefecture in 2016.During the trial at the Osaka District Court, the prosecutors said Yuma Kobayashi aimed to kill the
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2018
The reality of not being able to afford sanitary products can have serious consequences.Two fifths of girls in the UK have had to rely on using toilet roll at some point to manage their period because they have struggled to afford sanitary products, a survey by Plan International UK has22
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Responding to an Associated Press report that the Iraqi authorities have detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of links to the Islamic State armed group or other terror-related offences, sentencing more than 3,000 of them to death, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East
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2018
Since executions were put on hold by a federal judge in 2014, 5 Arizona death-row inmates have died of "natural causes." All of them were related to hepatitis C infections, according to attorneys and relatives of the dead prisoners.The medical director at the Arizona prison complex that until
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2018
The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has reinstated the death sentence of Lisa Jo Chamberlin, Mississippi's only female death row inmate.The ruling Tuesday came almost three years after a federal court ruling granting her a new trial in a double homicide in Hattiesburg.The full 5th U.S. Circuit
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2018
DAs’ notes said jurors were ‘slow’ or ‘ignorant’ or ‘fat’In handwritten notes, Columbus prosecutors described prospective African-American jurors as “slow,” “ignorant,” “con artist” and “fat.” They also jotted a “B” or an “N” next to black people’s names on jury lists and routinely ranked them as
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2018
Four justices made clear their view that the death penalty — at least as it exists in Arizona — merits further review.The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request to consider whether Arizona's death penalty law, or the death penalty more broadly, is unconstitutional — with four
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2018
If men did not buy sex, there would be no prostitution, child sexual exploitation or sex trafficking.by Nordic Model Now!The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, unveiled his new violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy recently.While we welcome some of its provisions, we are dismayed by19
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2018
Saudi Arabia has beheaded an Indonesian migrant worker for murder despite President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s repeated pleas that the man be granted clemency.M. Zaini Misrin from Bangkalan, East Java, was executed on Sunday, according to Migrant Care, an Indonesian organization focusing on the
TOKYO - More than two decades after Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult plunged Tokyo into terror by releasing a nerve agent on rush-hour subway trains, its spinoffs continue to attract new followers.Cult head Shoko Asahara is on death row, along with 12 of his disciples, for crimes including the subway
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000
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2018
‘…we were disappointed that so many women have experienced sexism’.Churches are being urged to take steps to make their congregations safe spaces in which women can flourish, after new research released on International Women’s Day revealed that 62 per cent of women have experienced sexism in