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The European Union has sharply criticized Belarus for sentencing 2 men to death, and repeated its call for President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government to abolish capital punishment.
Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini, said on January 23 that the Minsk city court sentenced Vyachaslau Sukharka and Alyaksandr Zhylnikau to death on January 20 after a
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Three French women who joined the Islamic State (IS) armed group before being captured by Iraqi forces could face the death penalty as they await trial in Baghdad.The women were detained after Iraqi fighters ousted the jihadists from Mosul last July, one source said, confirming a report on RMC
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Very few of them were in any way concerned about her circumstances or her plight.Ruhama, Ireland’s only dedicated national frontline NGO supporting women affected by prostitution and sex trafficking, has released a short video about their ‘Andreea’ campaign and what it exposes about the views23
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The gendered nature of online violence deserves to be addressed in research, policy and prevention.From April to November 2017, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) led a six-month project that aimed at analysing the current state of online violence against women and girls in Europe.In order toTALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by 10 Death Row inmates, including a man scheduled to be executed Feb. 22 in the 1993 slaying of a University of West Florida student.The Supreme Court’s release of 10 nearly identical rulings at the same time was unusual. But
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After narrowly surviving voter initiatives in 2012 and 2016, California’s death penalty law may soon be in jeopardy again, this time at the U.S. Supreme Court.The court is being asked to take up a challenge to the death penalty in Arizona, where the law makes virtually every first-degree murderer
Attorneys for a condemned killer whose execution was stopped last year after 25 minutes of unsuccessful needle sticks are once again recommending the firing squad as an alternative.The execution could also proceed if the state adopts a closely regulated lethal injection process that includes a
Six convicts were today sentenced to death by a court here for the murder of three Dalit men over an inter-caste love affair in Sonai village of Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra in January 2013.Additional District and Sessions Court Judge R R Vaishnav also slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on each of
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On 20 January 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, the Head of the Reich Security Main Office, chaired a meeting of 15 high-ranking civil servants and SS officers in a villa at Großer Wannsee 56/58.The topic of the conference was technical, logistic and legal implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to
Gazan family says it killed a relative after being told by Hamas he had helped Israel track down and kill 3 senior Hamas members.A Gazan family said on Friday it had killed 1 of its relatives, claiming he had helped Israel track down and kill 3 senior Hamas terrorists, including 1 of the man's
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With the conclusion of all of the trials, judicial authorities will likely shift their focus to the possible execution of Aum founder Shoko AsaharaThe trials related to Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that executed the deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, are close to ending
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'I know Tricia and Kevin would not want him to be executed', says Kent WhitakerThe father of a man who murdered his mother and younger brother is pleading Texas officials for a stay of execution. Kent Whitaker – who survived the 2003 ambush that killed his wife, Tricia, and his 19-year-old son
The embezzlement trial began Wednesday for a former executive at Vietnam's state oil giant who Germany said was kidnapped from there by Vietnamese agents last year.Trinh Xuan Thanh was the former chairman of state energy giant PetroVietnam's construction arm and is accused of embezzling $622,000
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The current state of affairs renders women even more susceptible to destitution, harm and exploitation.The forthcoming Domestic Violence Bill must prioritise safety, equality, dignity and liberty for migrant women.Anything less is discriminatory, unjust and completely antithetical to a23
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A Pakistani man, who was convicted of strangling an 11-year-old boy to death after raping him at the rooftop of their Abu Dhabi building, has challenged his execution sentence. While denying all the charges, he has contended that he was being wrongly convicted.The 33-year-old man was sentenced to
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The review is assessing if more needs to be done to protect those seeking medical assistance.The Home Office is seeking views from interested parties about alleged harassment and intimidating behaviour near abortion clinics in England and Wales.It is the latest step in the review, announced22
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Le terrible décret qui, pour la seconde fois en moins de deux siècles, allait faire tomber sur l’échafaud une tête couronnée, et affliger la France d’un attentat semblable à celui qui avait effrayé l’Angleterre, était prononcé. Les sollicitations éloquentes des trois défenseurs du roi Louis XVI
Iran on Monday suspended all cases in which people have been sentenced to death for drug offences, Ali Larijani, Speaker of the country's parliament said.Larijani said all the cases are to be reviewed."A block has also been placed on planned executions," the Isna news agency reported.According to
A new documentary on the death penalty includes the work a federal public defender did on an Ohio execution that lasted 26 minutes while the inmate repeatedly gasped and snorted.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new documentary on the death penalty includes the work a federal public defender did on an Ohio
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The drugs are supposed to put a death row inmate to sleep before stopping the inmate's lungs and heart. However, controversies around the country show a three-drug combination Tennessee is prepared to use as it resumes executions in 2018 may leave witnesses scarred and death row offenders in pain
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Responding to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's threat to "hang" death row prisoners as a crime deterrent after more than a decade without an execution in the country, Amnesty International's Death Penalty Adviser Oluwatosin Popola said:"President Museveni's threat to resume executions to
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The Justice Ministry has put an end to its longtime policy of avoiding executions of death-row inmates while they are calling for a retrial, but who is chosen to be hanged is still shrouded in secrecy.The hanging of a prisoner seeking a retrial requires cautious judgment, yet the Justice Ministry
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Federal prosecutors announced Friday they will seek the death penalty for a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting scholar from China in June.In making the announcement, prosecutors alleged for the first time that Brendt Christensen
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a repeat rapist and murderer who has been on Arizona’s death row for 40 years for a string of grisly crimes in Maricopa County.The justices without comment Monday declined to hear Joseph Clarence Smith’s claim that the jury
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Saudi Arabia has been one of the five top executing countries in the world for more than a decade. Having put more than 300 people to death in the past two years, this trend shows no sign of stopping.The death penalty in Saudi Arabia is regularly imposed for ‘protest-related offences’, including
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Branch 33 of the Supreme Court in Iran is reviewing the death sentence issued to Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born academic and Swedish resident accused of "espionage" charges. The judge has asked a deputy prosecutor to give his opinion in February 2018."My client's case is currently being
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Please don’t let uncertainty about your body stop you going for what could be a life-saving test.Across the UK, one in four eligible women – aged 25-64 – do not take up their smear test invitation.This rises to one in three among 25-29 year-olds and is even as high as one in two in some areas22
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The government will also make a request for setting up of fast-track courts for dealing with rape cases to provide a speedy justiceUnder fire for a series of rape cases, Manohar Lal Khattar-led Haryana Government is set to bring a law to provide capital punishment for those found guilty of raping
More than 2 decades after poison gas attacks in Tokyo's subways killed 13, the stage has shifted to the execution of 13 people convicted in the crime. When they will be sent to the gallows, though, remains a mystery in Japan's highly secretive death penalty system.The Supreme Court rejected an
A court in Iraq has sentenced a German woman to death after finding her guilty of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group.She was sentenced for providing logistical support and taking part in attacks on Iraqi security forces.The woman, who has not been named but is said to be of Moroccan
During the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people against the detested rule of Velayat-e faqih, the regime's judiciary executed 5 young prisoners from January 15 to 17. On January 17, a brutal sentence to amputate a young man's hand for stealing several sheeps was carried out in Mashhad
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With the conclusion of all of the trials, judicial authorities will likely shift their focus to the possible execution of Aum founder Shoko AsaharaThe trials related to Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that executed the deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, are close to ending
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LINCOLN — Nebraska prison officials have notified another death row inmate they intend to carry out his execution using an untried combination of lethal drugs.The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said Friday it provided the execution notice to Carey Dean Moore, who shot and killed
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The testing ‘had not looked at whether the basis for treating those with psychological distress differently was sound or not’.High Court judge Mr Justice Mostyn has allowed the claim in the case of RF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.The High Court found that part of the rules