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2018
This talk of the Parkland shooter’s mental illness. It won’t last.
By the time Nikolas Cruz goes on trial for 17 counts of murder, and 17 counts of attempted murder, only his defense lawyers will still be arguing about a disordered mind and diminished culpability.
But at the moment, it’s politically convenient to characterize the 19
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Mar
2018
TOKYO - The Japanese government on Friday decided to introduce the right to plea bargain on June 1 by putting into force a revised law on criminal proceedings.In addition to crimes related to drug, gun and bribery cases as stipulated in the law, the cabinet approved a decree to expand the scope
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Mar
2018
The state of Alabama executed Michael Wayne Eggers-- an inmate who asked to die-- on Thursday night at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. His time of death was 7:29 p.m.This is the first execution the state has carried out this year.Just before 6 p.m., the set execution time, the U.S
ATLANTA -- An inmate known as the Georgia "stocking strangler" was denied clemency Wednesday evening, despite evidence his lawyers say casts doubt on his guilt. Carlton Gary, the 67-year-old inmate, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm on Thursday.The Georgia Parole board, in a
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Mar
2018
Oklahoma plans to use nitrogen gas as its preferred method of execution when it resumes using the death penalty, the first US state to do so.The announcement was made by State Attorney General Mike Hunter and Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh.Capital punishment has been on hold in Oklahoma for
Botswana has no intention to abolish the death penalty or impose a moratorium on its implementation, President Ian Khama said on Tuesday.President Ian Khama told heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Gaborone that his government is unfazed by international calls to abolish the death
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — The conservative Indonesian province of Aceh known for publicly caning gays, adulterers and gamblers is considering the introduction of beheading as a punishment for murder, a top Islamic law official said Wednesday.Syukri M. Yusuf, the head of Aceh's Shariah Law and
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2018
On the night of February 22, the executioners strapped Doyle Lee Hamm to the lethal injection gurney in Alabama’s execution chamber. Two men in scrubs began to work on each side, on his left and right legs and feet, sticking needles into his flesh and bones, pushing and pulling them out
A Bangladesh court Tuesday sentenced dozens of men to death for the brazen daylight murder of a ruling party official in 2014, officials said.Ekramul Haque, the then Awami League leader in eastern Feni district, was dragged from his vehicle by a mob and hacked with machetes before being shot at
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2018
Wife had been deported from Hong Kong last year after she pledged allegiance to ISISA former Indonesian migrant worker who was deported from Hong Kong last year after she posted a Facebook video of her pledging allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is
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Mar
2018
This kind of behaviour has real world consequences.By WRDA CommunicationsBelfast has a problem with Rape Culture.Eating lunch, buying clothes or even just walking down the street, women in this city are met with a barrage of misogynistic material.Violence against women is made light of12
Mar
2018
A commission has recommended the abolishing of the death sentence. Instead, the Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLRC) proposes that capital offences such as murder, treason, robbery and unlawful administration of oath, for which the death penalty is prescribed, should attract life
COLUMBUS — A divided Ohio Parole Board on Friday recommended that Gov. John Kasich show mercy toward William T. Montgomery, convicted in the slaying of a 20-year-old South Toledo woman 32 years ago.Montgomery, 52, is set to die on Ohio’s lethal injection gurney on April 11 for the March 8, 1986
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2018
JACKSON, Ga. -- Georgia has put to death a man known as the "stocking strangler," who was convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks that terrorized a small city decades ago. The office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Car said 67-year-old Carlton Gary was executed minutes after
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2018
TOKYO -The Justice Ministry began transferring seven of 13 former Aum Shinrikyo cult members on death row from the Tokyo detention center to other facilities across the country, government sources said Wednesday, likely moving them one step closer to execution.With the Aum-related trials wrapping
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Mar
2018
The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd has been scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018 took place. The Singaporean man was convicted of, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for, drug-related offences in 2016. He maintains his innocence of the
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Mar
2018
Montgomery, Ala., (CNA/EWTN News).- As a death row inmate in Alabama sues the state over a botched execution last month, a Catholic advocacy group said the case emphasize inherent flaws in capital punishment itself.“The events surrounding this execution attempt highlight the brokenness of the
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Mar
2018
Delaware placed the remnants of its death penalty on the history shelves Tuesday when it modified the death sentences of two convicted murderers to life in prison. Michael R. Manley and David D. Stevenson, both 43, were sentenced after years of legal battles fighting a conviction that brought
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Mar
2018
How long are we going to keep quiet while we witness this? I refuse to.This is the English version of an open letter sent to the leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), extended to the leaderships of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), the International Federation of13
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2018
IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 13, 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This number is comparable with the execution figures in 2016 and confirms the relative
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lawyers on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the upcoming execution of an Alabama inmate who they say was mentally ill when he moved to fire his lawyers and drop his appeals.Michael Eggers is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 2000 choking death of Bennie
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2018
SINGAPORE - Convicted drug trafficker Billy Agbozo was executed last Friday (March 9) after he failed in his clemency plea.Agbozo, 39, a Ghanaian national, had been found guilty and sentenced to death on July 4, 2016, for trafficking 1.63kg of methamphetamine here in his luggage in April 2013.The
Once again the New Hampshire Legislature is considering repeal of the death penalty. The repeal bill, Senate Bill 593, would replace capital punishment with imprisonment without the possibility of parole. SB 593 has 13 sponsors in the Senate, which is already a majority, so it is likely to pass
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Mar
2018
"Death Row Doctor," an eight-minute film that touches on themes of justice and injustice, life and death, profiles Carlo Musso. He is a doctor who contemplates his moral compass as he participates in executions, even though he personally opposes capital punishment.Source: The New York Times
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2018
‘It is unacceptable that successive governments have failed to protect the public from poisonous air’The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and the Environmental Audit, Health and Social Care and Transport Committees have published a joint report after an unprecedented four-way15
Mar
2018
President Donald Trump backed the death penalty for drug dealers on Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, while his administration is reportedly studying the issue.Trump said the United States got the idea of capital punishment for drug dealers from Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Washington
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2018
Iran Human Rights (Mar 12, 2018): A prisoner was hanged at Khoy Central Prison on rape charges.According to a report by HRANA, on the morning of Sunday, March 11, a prisoner was executed at Khoy Central Prison on rape charges.The prisoner was identified as Javad Golneyyat, and he had two young
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. students spilled out of classrooms by the thousands on Wednesday morning, waving signs and chanting slogans like "We want change," in a coast-to-coast protest against gun violence prompted by a deadly rampage at a Florida high school last month.The #ENOUGH National
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2018
Domestic abuse is not an isolated offence, it is a repeated pattern of behaviour.A new domestic abuse sentencing guideline has been published, giving courts up-to-date guidance that emphasises the seriousness of this kind of offending.The guideline, published by the Sentencing Council13
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2018
A Florida prosecutor said Tuesday that he would seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing 17 people last month at a high school in Parkland, moving the state closer to a rare trial for someone charged in a mass shooting.Michael J. Satz, the state attorney for Broward County, made
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2018
The California Supreme Court, citing false evidence, decided unanimously Monday to overturn the conviction of a Delano man sent to death row more than two decades ago for murdering and sodomizing a toddler.The action by the state high court, which upheld the man's conviction and death sentence in
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Mar
2018
For years, the state of Nebraska has had a troubled history of cutting corners in its zealous pursuit of lethal-injection drugs to keep its death penalty program alive. In November, the state announced that it would use an experimental drug cocktail not previously used in the United States to
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Mar
2018
Only Tripura and Karnataka have so far told the home ministry that the practice should be done away with.New Delhi: Fourteen states and union territories have replied so far to the Ministry of Home Affairs’ query on the death penalty, and only two of them – Karnataka and Tripura – want it
According to Greta Lindecrantz's attorney, Robert Ray's defense team believes that testifying for the prosecution could actually save Ray's life.A Mennonite woman who refused to testify in a death penalty case on the grounds that capital punishment violated her religious beliefs has reversed