BEIRUT, Lebanon — Emaciated corpses lie in the sand, their ribs protruding over sunken bellies, their thighs as thin as wrists. Several show signs of strangulation. The images conjure memories of some of history’s worst atrocities. Numbers inscribed on more than 11,000 bodies in 55,000 photographs said to emerge from the secret jails of... BEIRUT, Lebanon — Emaciated corpses lie in the sand, their ribs protruding over sunken bellies, their thighs as thin as wrists. Several show signs of strangulation. The images conjure memories of some of history’s worst atrocities. Numbers inscribed on more than 11,000 bodies in 55,000 photographs said to emerge from the secret jails of Syria’s president
The Walls Unit's Death HouseHuntsville, Texas The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday rejected attempts by Edgar Tamayo's lawyers to save him from the state's death chamber on Wednesday for the 1994 murder of Houston policeman Guy Gaddis. Tamayo's lawyers argued that21
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Officials in Italy reacted with dismay Monday at reports in the Indian media suggesting that 2 Italian marines accused of killing 2 Indian fishermen could face the death penalty. According to The Times of India newspaper, India's federal Home Ministry has allowed its investigative agency21
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Execution rehearsal in China BEIJING: Chinese authorities on Tuesday put to death a man who held six sex slaves in his basement and murdered two, state media reported. Li Hao, a 36-year-old former clerk, was executed after being convicted of “murder, rape, illegal21
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Denpasar. A French national faces the death penalty after allegedly attempting to smuggle three kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in the lining of his suitcase through customs at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, police said. Francois Jacques Giuliy, 48, was arrested at21
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January 20, 2014: A Vietnamese court sentenced 30 people to death for trafficking heroin at the conclusion of a mass trial. State media reported the 21 men and 9 women were convicted of being part of four connected rings that smuggled nearly 2 tons of heroin from Laos into Vietnam and then on
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Ohio Death Chamber The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is asking Gov. John Kasich to halt executions. The ACLU sent a letter to Kasich today asking him to use his executive authority in light of the questions raised after Thursday's execution of Dennis McGuire. The19
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Ohio's latest experience with putting an inmate to death raises new question about the ability of states to carry out executions in constitutional fashion. It took Dennis McGuire 26 minutes to die on Thursday after the chemicals — intravenous doses of the sedative midazolam and the
The looming execution of a Mexican highlights the fate of foreigners on death row in the United States who were not informed of their rights and risk being put to death in violation of international law, experts say. Edgar Tamayo Arias, who was convicted in the 1994 fatal shooting of a17
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XI'AN, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The suspended death sentence of a baby-trafficking doctor announced Tuesday has brought nationwide controversy, with some netizens calling for stiffer punishment while experts say the penalty is justified. Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in Fuping County in17
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Death row inmates in Virginia who wish to die by lethal injection still could face execution by electrocution under a bill that advanced Thursday in the House of Delegates. By a 4-1 voice vote, a House subcommittee on Militia, Police and Public Safety backed a measure that would override16
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Predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria introduced Sharia law in 2000 Predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria introduced Sharia law in 2000 An Islamic court in Nigeria has put on trial 11 Muslim men accused of violating their religion due to their alleged sexuality – if found guilty21
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Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday said President Benigno S. Aquino III has pledged a substantial amount to augment the blood money raised by the Philippine government to save overseas Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta from execution in Saudi Arabia. Zapanta was sentenced to death for
Iraq has executed 26 men convicted of "terrorism", the justice ministry said on Tuesday, despite widespread international condemnation of Iraq's extensive use of the death penalty. "The justice ministry carried out the executions of 26 (men) convicted of crimes related to terrorism on21
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ABU DHABI- A maid who murdered her employer’s four-month-old baby girl by smashing her head on a table had her death sentence upheld by the Appeals Court on Tuesday. The court heard that ST, from Indonesia, took the baby, named Malak, from the bedroom that was fitted with CCTV
Michael Blanc, 40, was sentenced to life in prison after 3.8 kilograms of hashish was found in his diving canisters at Bali airport the day after Christmas in 1999. His sentence was reduced to 20 years in 2008. Blanc has always maintained his innocence, insisting that he was given the diving
January 16, 2014: A young man convicted of sodomy was whipped 20 times in a northern Nigerian Shariah court. Though Mubarak Ibrahim was found guilty under Shariah law, it is the first conviction of a gay man in Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill that further21
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ABU DHABI- A man who ran over and killed a 12-year-old boy because he thought he had thrown rubbish into his car had his 15-year jail sentence changed to the death penalty on Monday. The original verdict of manslaughter for Pakistani SHB was changed to premeditated murder by the second19
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Tokyo Detention Center TOKYO — The trial began in Japan on Thursday of a former member of Aum Supreme Truth, 19 years after the doomsday cult launched a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people. Makoto Hirata, 48, turned himself in at a Tokyo police19
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(Reuters) - Lawmakers for at least two U.S. states say they should conduct executions by firing squad if opposition to capital punishment by pharmaceutical companies makes it hard to obtain drugs for lethal injections. States have turned to pharmacies that customize drugs and adoptedRiyadh: A Saudi court has sentenced to death two Chadian Islamists convicted of murdering a French expatriate in the western city of Jeddah, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday. The two are part of a group of 12 people — seven Chadians, four Saudis, and a Yemeni &mdash16
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Public flogging in Iran HRANA News Agency – Three prisoners were flogged in public on December 25, 2013.The sentence was carried out in the main square of the city of Dehdasht. According to a report from Fars, Majid Karami, the prosecutor of Kohgiluye va Boyerahmad16
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Huntsville Unit's Execution Chamber, Huntsville, Texas At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke. Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that21
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Seat of Indian Supreme Court ACHR welcomes SC commutation of 15 death sentences The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has welcomed the judgment of the Supreme Court commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment for 15 death-row convicts on the grounds of inordinate21
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The state of Florida will today seek to block the release of key fingerprint evidence which could demonstrate the innocence of Krishna Maharaj (74), a British businessman sentenced to death in 1987 for murder. Although Mr Maharaj’s death sentence has since been quashed, due to21
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Anthony Graves Former Texas death row inmate Anthony Graves filed a state bar grievance Monday asking that former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta be held accountable by the State Bar of Texas for Graves' wrongful murder conviction. Lawmakers who flanked
January 17, 2014: The House's Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee passed House Bill 1052 that would allow forced electrocutions when lethal drugs aren't available. The bill passed on a 12-6 vote. The vote was largely along party lines, with Republicans voting in favor. The21
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Ohio Death Chamber In the wake of Dennis McGuire's controversial execution last week, legislative Democrats are ramping up efforts to halt - or at least modify - the death penalty in Ohio.State Sen. Edna Brown, a Toledo Democrat, called for an immediate moratorium on the death
Kerobokan Prison, Indonesia Indonesian authorities have approved the parole of a Frenchman jailed 14 years ago for drug-smuggling and he could be released in the coming days, an official said Sunday. The rare approval for the early release of a foreigner will raise hopes
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Missouri death-row inmate scheduled for execution this month says the state prison system is improperly storing expired doses of a new lethal injection drug provided by an Oklahoma pharmacy that's not licensed to do business in the neighboring state. Attorneys for19
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Dennis McGuire As the lethal drugs flowed into his veins in the Ohio death chamber, Dennis B. McGuire at first “went unconscious” and his body was still, his daughter, Amber McGuire, said Friday. But a few minutes later, she said, she was horrified to see herDennis McGuire DAYTON — A Dayton law firm said it will file a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family of executed killer Dennis McGuire. They are seeking an injunction on the death penalty in Ohio claiming the execution of McGuire violated the eighth amendment of the16
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Dennis McGuire A man convicted of murder in the US state of Ohio has been executed using a new, never-before-tried lethal injection combination. Dennis McGuire, 53, was killed on Thursday with a two-drug cocktail, after the maker of the previous execution drug16
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Unintended consequences of a boycott Pentobarbital and sodium thiopental are anaesthetics, used around the world by doctors and vets on all kinds of patients in a variety of cases. They are also used to render prisoners unconscious in the ten U.S. states that use lethal injection to