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Mar
2018
Parliament ‘should set a positive example as a place of work with the highest standards of behaviour’.
The Scottish Parliament has published the results of a confidential survey which assessed the extent to which sexual harassment and sexist behaviour is present in Holyrood and in MSPs’ local offices.
Its key findings indicate that:
A fifth of respondents – 20 per cent – have experienced sexual harassment and sexist behaviour while working at the Scottish Parliament.
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Mar
2018
Challenge the assumption that women’s work should be performed for free and always with a smile.On 8 March women around the world are going on strike for the day; this is a call to action for women in the UK to join them.The Women’s Strike is an international strike being planned and05
Mar
2018
The lethal injection has been the primary means of executing condemned Americans for decades - but its use remains controversial(This article contains material that some readers may find upsetting)Support for the death penalty is at an all-time low. Britain effectively abolished it in 1965
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Mar
2018
One thing is clear after last week's eleventh-hour death row commutation: No one agrees what it means.For the first time in a decade, a Texas governor - following a rare unanimous recommendation from the notoriously unforgiving Board of Pardon and Paroles – granted clemency to a condemned
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Mar
2018
Alva Campbell — the convicted murderer and Ohio death row inmate who entered the death chamber in November but left 20 minutes later after a suitable vein for injection could not be found — has died, according to a report from this organization’s partners at WBNS 10TV.The Columbus Dispatch
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ Supreme Court on Thursday lifted stays of execution for two condemned killers, saying they were not entitled to special assistance from mental health professionals before and during their trials.Bruce Ward and Don Davis were among eight prisoners scheduled to die
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Mar
2018
YOKOHAMA – Prosecutors on Thursday said they are seeking the death penalty for a man charged with murdering three elderly residents at a Kawasaki nursing home in 2014 by throwing them from balconies.As the trial wrapped up at the Yokohama District Court, the prosecutors said that Hayato Imai, 25
Governor Chris Sununu says he will veto a death penalty repeal bill if it reaches his desk.The Republican released a statement on Wednesday saying that a top priority for his administration has been strengthening laws for crime victims and their families, and that “the most heinous crimes warrant
A Hardin County jury on Tuesday handed down the state's 1st death sentence of 2018, deciding a Kountze man convicted of torturing and killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter is irredeemable and likely to commit future violent crimes.The jury deliberated for more than 3 hours before
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Feb
2018
Two controversial cases in Alabama reveal a disturbing trend in the death penalty in America.Vernon Madison doesn’t know why he’s going to be executed.The state of Alabama tells him that he fatally shot a police officer in the back and wounded his ex-girlfriend during a domestic dispute in 1985
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Feb
2018
Denial of abortion and criminalisation of abortion ‘puts women in horrific situations’.In a strongly-worded report published last week, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) said thousands of women and girls in Northern Ireland are subjected to grave and27
Feb
2018
Drop Charges, End Persecution of Religious MinorityHouthi authorities should drop all charges against a Baha'i man who was sentenced to death on January 2, 2018 because of his religious beliefs, Human Rights Watch said today. The Houthis should unconditionally release Hamed Kamal Haydara and the
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Mar
2018
Federal prosecutors want the death penalty for Kirby Cleveland, a Navajo man accused of killing a tribal police officer last year.The case could signal that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will take a more aggressive approach with the death penalty in Indian Country, though most tribes
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Mar
2018
The nation's death rows are starting to look like geriatric wards. Condemned inmates in many states are more likely to die of natural causes than to be executed. The rare ones who are put to death often first spend decades behind bars, waiting.It turns out that executing old men is not easy. In
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Mar
2018
The Colorado Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed a contempt of court ruling, thereby keeping a Mennonite investigator, who is refusing to testify in a death penalty case, in jail.The judges listened to arguments for about an hour from attorneys representing Greta Lindecrantz, the 67-year-old who
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Mar
2018
President Trump has been privately praising Singapore, the small city-state once known as the world’s most active executioner per capita.This is according to Axios, which reported Sunday that the president has been telling friends for months that the death penalty should be imposed on drug
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Mar
2018
Labour signatories are urging garment brands to sign up to the 2018 Accord.With less than 100 days until the current Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, signed in 2013, expires, garment companies are being urged to continue their involvement and create a safe and sustainable garment01
Mar
2018
Belgium will host next year (February 2019) the seventh world congress against the death penalty, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UN adoption of a protocol aiming the abolition of the death penalty, announced Wednesday the Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders at the
WASHINGTON — The British government wants the Trump administration to provide assurances that American prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against two British Islamic State suspects who were recently captured in Syria — and is threatening to withhold important evidence about them as
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Feb
2018
Iran's justice minister said on Tuesday a recent reform of its drug laws should lead to fewer executions after the U.N. Secretary General said he remained alarmed about their high number - nearly 500 last year.As Ali Reza Avai addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, protesters rallied
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Feb
2018
A prison officer from Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison has been arrested on drug couriering charges.Identified by initials FR, the officer, originally from North Sumatra, was arrested on Monday afternoon around 12pm in front of the prison.FR’s arrest stems from an investigation looking into two
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Feb
2018
A controversial medical examiner, exaggerated testimony, and bad forensics branded Jeffrey Havard a rapist and a baby killer.Jeffrey Havard's story began the evening of February 21, 2002, when the Mississippi man was keeping an eye on Chloe, the 6-month-old daughter of his girlfriend, Rebecca
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Feb
2018
A man suffering from cancer strapped to a gurney after spending 30 years on death row in Alabama. An intravenous team probing him, jabbing him, for hours in an attempt to find a usable vein to administer the lethal, secret drug cocktail. Going into his groin a half-dozen times, puncturing his
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Mar
2018
In an announcement late Friday, Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg revealed that a former prosecutor had withheld a key email that could have prevented Alfred Dewayne Brown from receiving the death penalty.As the Houston Chronicle writes, the email helped establish "a clear alibi"
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Mar
2018
If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it — overwhelmingly, especially in liberal, progressive, civilized circles of thought and news — they’re righteously appalled.But poor death row
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker on Friday abandoned his effort to repeal the death penalty, saying the measure didn't have quite enough support.With five days remaining before legislators adjourn, Republican Rep. Gage Froerer said it wasn't worth taking up time to debate the emotional
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Mar
2018
Rethinking the way we deal with sexual harassment in the entertainment industryThe actors’ union Equity has published its report on sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and launched a ‘Safe Space’ campaign.In the report, ‘Agenda for Change: Equity’s report on sexual harassment’01
Mar
2018
Lawyer for Greta Lindecrantz says she is being punished for long-standing religious beliefsA 67-year-old Mennonite woman spent a second day in the Arapahoe County jail Tuesday after she refused to testify for the prosecution in a death penalty case.Greta Lindecrantz on Tuesday morning was found
After similar rulings recently in at least 80 other cases, the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected appeals from nine Death Row inmates.All of the cases involve inmates who were sentenced to death before a June 2002 cutoff date.The appeals stemmed from a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a
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Feb
2018
‘Why are you not making drama by female writers?’In an open letter to TV drama commissioners, 76 female writers have accused UK drama bosses of failing to give them opportunities to ‘graduate’ from soaps to flagship primetime shows.Their work ranges from EastEnders and Casualty to Midsomer28
Feb
2018
Case Highlights Violations of Domestic and International Law and Judiciary's Lack of IndependenceA young man who was incarcerated at 15 years of age was sentenced to death in Iran upon turning 18 - despite the provincial state medical examiner's report that Mohammad Kalhor was not mentally mature
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Feb
2018
Two Indonesian Christians were publicly flogged in conservative Aceh province Tuesday for playing a children’s entertainment game seen as violating Islamic law, as hundreds of onlookers ridiculed them and took pictures.The pair were among five people — including a couple whipped two dozen times
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a man sentenced to death for killing an Alabama police officer but who lawyers say now can't remember the 1985 murder.The court agreed Monday to hear arguments in the case of Vernon Madison.Madison had been scheduled to be executed in January, but
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Among the suspects on the list of the country’s 10 worst mass shootings, Nikolas Cruz is alone in one thing: He was taken alive.His arrest raises the rare prospect of a death penalty trial for a massacre, a huge undertaking with far-reaching consequences for all involved