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The execution of Khosrow Besharat at dawn today in Iran's Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj marks a tragic and egregious act of injustice. Besharat, who endured more than 14 years of imprisonment and was subjected to brutal torture to extract a coerced “confession,” has become yet another victim of the Iranian regime's systematic repression of dissent.RELATED | Tortured, Now Facing Execution
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PUTRAJAYA: A former medical equipment supplier who murdered his sister-in-law more than two decades ago was freed by the Federal Court today after his death sentence was commuted to a 33-year prison term.A three-member bench chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who sat with Justices
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Every few years, from childhood until my late teens, my granddad would take me along with him to the small Texas town where he grew up—Normangee, population 522—to visit old relatives and even older graves. The drive took us up I-45, beyond the Houston sprawl, past pine forests, and eventually
May 13, 2024 – The death sentence issued against Mahmoud Mehrabi, a social media page administrator, should be immediately rescinded as his only so-called “crime” was posting content online, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).The case is yet another example of Islamic Republic
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 11, 2024: An Afghan national named Mohammad Afghan and Houshang Nourollahi Younjalu were executed for drug-related charges in Gorgan Central Prison. Mohammad Afghan’s mother was denied permission to visit her son for the last time.According to information obtained
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 13 – Saudi Arabia has acceded to Kenya’s request to postpone the execution of Stephen Munyakho that was set for Wednesday to allow for further negotiations between all parties.According to Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’Oei, Kenya will be engaging stakeholders
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Thousands of years ago in ancient China, felonies were not simply punished with a stint in jail, but serious crimes often entailed the amputation of a limb, specifically legs.This harsh culture of punishment, known as yue, disciplined people for various crimes, such as desertion from duties
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The Senate, yesterday, passed a bill which upgraded the maximum sentence of life imprisonment to death penalty for manufacturers of hard drugs.The legislation, titled: ‘National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act (Amendment Bill) 2024’ passed a third reading at the Senate, yesterday. The
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 9, 2024: Abdollah Ozbekzehi, Khalilollah Barahouyi and Fariba Mohammadzehi were executed for drug-related charges in Kerman Central Prison.According to HRANA news agency, two men and a woman were executed in Kerman Central Prison on 8 May. Their identities
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SINGAPORE — Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday (May 8) cited local and regional surveys as proof of strong and growing support for using the death penalty on drug traffickers.He was delivering a ministerial statement in parliament on Singapore’s approach to drug
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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Alan Eugene Miller, setting the stage for the state to have at least four executions this year.Miller's execution would be the second carried out using nitrogen gas, the Alabama Attorney General’s office says. Miller, now
A knife attack at a hospital in southwestern China has killed two people and injured 21 others. No motive was given for Tuesday's attack at Zhenxiong County People’s Hospital in Yunnan province. Authorities said the suspect is a male from the same county.BEIJING — A knife attack at a hospital in
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PUTRAJAYA, May 16 — The Federal Court here today upheld the death sentence of a Singaporean man for the murder of his eight-year-old Thai stepson in 2008.This followed the rejection of Shawal Senin’s application by the three-member panel of judges to commute his death sentence to life
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At least eight prisoners were executed in Iranian prisons over the past two days, according to human rights groups.HRANA, a human rights website, reported the execution of Farokh Khan Mohammadi and Reza Gholam Hosseini in Ilam Central Prison. Mohammadi's case dates back 14 years, while
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Over a written dissent by two justices, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a death penalty case asking them to weigh in on when jury selection begins and the defendant has a right to be present. The order in Sandoval v. Texas came as part of a list of orders from the justices’
Executions soared to their highest number in almost a decade in 2023 with a sharp rise across the Middle East, Amnesty International said today as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty.A total of 1,153 executions took place in 2023, which does not include the
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Baghdad court on Monday handed a death sentence for a drug dealer of foreign nationality accused of bringing narcotics into the country, state media reported. “The convict brought narcotic substances into Iraq for the purpose of trafficking them and selling
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A Mississippi Coast man is headed to death row for his role in the beating and suffocation death of his 2-year-old stepson — all because the toddler soiled his diaper and took too long to get a juice box out of the refrigerator.A jury in Harrison County Circuit Court in Biloxi deliberated for
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 9, 2024: Hassan Choopani, Abdollah Hassanzadeh Yangajeh and Hassan Arabi Anabi were executed for drug-related charges in Urmia Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, three Kurdish men were executed in Urmia Central Prison on 9 May
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Buried on page 554 of the plan is a directive to execute every remaining person on federal death row — and dramatically expand the use of the death penalty.During the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people
Iraqi courts have handed down hundreds of death and life sentences in recent years for people convicted of membership in a terrorist group.BAGHDAD – Eleven people were executed on Monday at Al-Hut prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya after they were convicted and sentenced to death of
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Kaohsiung, May 7 (CNA) A Kaohsiung man's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment Tuesday by the Kaohsiung Branch of the Taiwan High Court, after his case was retried for the fourth time.According to the court's verdict Tuesday, the man surnamed Liu (劉) was accused of robbing and killing
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 6, 2024: Ali Asghar Falah, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed Qom Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Qom Central Prison on 5 May. His identity has been established as
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Luo Chongchuang, a man who raped and molested multiple girls for a long time, was executed after China's top court approved his death penalty.The execution was carried by the Hainan First Intermediate People's Court, where he was convicted of rape and child molestation and given the death
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases.Lee, a Republican, quietly
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KUCHING (May 14): Three men convicted of murder and another convicted of drug trafficking had their death sentences commuted to imprisonment by the Federal Court today.Murder convicts Asis Lako, 41, Daud Passarin, 40, and Daniel Usin, 34, had their death sentences commuted to imprisonment of 35
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Since the beginning of 2024 until the end of April, the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia announced the execution of 55 individuals. This figure constitutes a 189% increase compared to the executions in the first third of 2023, which witnessed 19 executions.The European Saudi Organization for
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BALI, Indonesia (AFP): Two Ukrainians and a Russian national face the death penalty in Indonesia after police raided a suspected drug lab on the popular resort island of Bali, police said Monday.Authorities said four suspects, including an Indonesian national, were arrested earlier this month at
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SINGAPORE - The Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction of a 63-year-old man who had been sentenced to death for heroin trafficking because the prosecution had run an inconsistent case during his trial regarding when the drugs were delivered to him.In a written judgment delivered by Chief
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Medan. The Medan District Court on Wednesday found three defendants, including a woman dubbed the "drug queen" by local media, guilty of trafficking and sentenced them to death.Hanisah, also known as Nisa Binti Abdullah, her husband Al Riza, and co-defendant Maimun were convicted of trafficking
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — The interval between executions in Oklahoma will grow to 90 days, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled on Tuesday.The court also decided against setting execution dates for a group of death row inmates, which has been done since 2022.In 2022, the court set execution
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On April 30, 2024, a week after the parties in Glossip v. Oklahoma filed merits briefs at the United States Supreme Court, several amici filed briefs in support of the parties’ joint position, asking the Court to grant Richard Glossip a new trial. Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia
In the early 1970s I was a North Carolinian, white boy from the South attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and working in East Harlem as part of a program.In my senior year, I visited men at the Bronx House of Detention. I had never been in a prison or jail, but people in East
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Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner held in Isfahan's Dastgerd Prison, has been sentenced to death for "corruption on Earth," a charge often used against dissidents.On Saturday, his lawyer, Babak Farsani, reported that the court refused to provide a written verdict. Lawyers only