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Execution by hanging in Gaza City Hamas is now trying to outdo the Taliban in imposing new Shar'ia inspired draconian punishments, including amputations of limbs and massive increases in lashings and executions. A senior Hamas official told Gulf News that a new punitive law, "inspired by" Shar'ia Law, is required to replace the former and... Execution by hanging in Gaza City Hamas is now trying to outdo the Taliban in imposing new Shar'ia inspired draconian punishments, including amputations of limbs and massive increases in lashings and executions. A senior Hamas official told Gulf News that a new punitive law, "inspired by" Shar'ia Law, is required to replace the former and "impractical" one01
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2014
The last time the Texas Department of Criminal Justice secured a cache of pentobarbital, the drug it uses to execute prisoners, the Houston-area compounding pharmacy that supplied it had second thoughts. "[I]t was my belief that this information would be kept on the 'down low,' and that01
Apr
2014
India's Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Monday commuted the death sentence of 1993 terror convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment on the grounds of inordinate delay in deciding his mercy petition and on the grounds of mental illness. The apex court bench01
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2014
In the UK cuts to services preventing abuse of women and girls ‘are actually sending us backwards.’ The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Rashida Manjoo, is starting her first ever official visit to the UK this week, to assess the UK’s performance in tackling31
Mar
2014
…as government launches action plan to tackle violence against women and girls. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has found that police response to domestic violence cases are not good enough and must be improved. In a damming reportpublished last week they found
Kerobokan prison Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison, which housed Schapelle Corby for almost a decade, is about to be exposed as a cesspool of corruption and lawlessness in a new book. I Survived Kerobokan, by Australian resident Paul Conibeer, describes a jail where some28
Mar
2014
Chinese police officers rehearsing execution procedure Despite being criticised as the world's top executioner by Amnesty, China has defended using the death penalty as a deterrent. China has defended the death penalty as a traditional deterrent, after a report said its28
Mar
2014
Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad Time is running out for an Indonesian woman, in Saudi Arabia, who could be executed for the murder of her employer as early as 3 April. 41-year-old Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad confessed to striking and killing her employer, Nura al-Garib, in28
Mar
2014
Anthony Doyle (Reuters) - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Thursday for beating a delivery woman to death with baseball bat, and stuffing her body in a dumpster, a Department of Criminal Justice spokesman said. The 37-year-old was beaten with a baseball bat, then robbed
Doha: A Qatari court on Thursday condemned a US couple from Los Angeles to three years in prison for causing the death of their adopted eight-year-old daughter. Matthew and Grace Huang were arrested in January 2013 after their daughter Gloria from Ghana died and accused of causing her27
Mar
2014
Arizona Death Chamber The Arizona Attorney General's Office announced this morning that it will change the drugs used to execute persons condemned to death. The new drugs, a cocktail of a Valium-like drug called Midazolam and a morphine derivative called Hydromorphone, will27
Mar
2014
Iwao Hakamada TOKYO (AP) — The world's longest-serving death row inmate was freed Thursday by a Japanese court that found investigators had likely fabricated evidence in the murder case that put the former pro boxer behind bars for nearly half a century. The01
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A group of 8 United Nations human rights independent experts today urged the Egyptian authorities to quash the 529 death sentences announced in Egypt last week and give the defendants new and fair trials, in line with international human rights law. "The right to life is a fundamental01
Apr
2014
Iwao Hakamada Prosecutors filed an appeal on Monday to block a court from granting a retrial to a former boxer convicted of murder whose release last week after 48 years on death row exposed problems in Japan’s justice system. Prosecutors in the central city of31
Mar
2014
Initiatives often overlook one fundamental structural cause of gender inequality: unpaid care work. An op-ed by Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, and UN Women’s deputy executive director for Policy and Programme, John Hendra. As the29
Mar
2014
A man in eastern China was sentenced to death on Thursday for the serial rapes of 16 underage girls, some of whom he met online while posing as a teenage girl himself, state news agency Xinhua reported, a crime which shocked the nation. Wang Yong, 40, was arrested in 2012 in Anhui29
Mar
2014
Iwao Hakamada eats breakfast at aTokyo hotel on Friday The Tokyo High Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Shizuoka prosecutors seeking to overturn a district court’s decision to release Iwao Hakamada, who until Thursday had been the world’s longest-serving death28
Mar
2014
At the forefront of the Modern British movement, she produced some of the memorable works of the period. In June a major exhibition will open at the Dulwich Picture Gallery which will include previously unexhibited or rarely seen early work by two of the UK’s most important 20th century28
Mar
2014
LAHORE, Pakistan — A court here found a Christian sanitation worker guilty of blasphemy on Thursday and sentenced him to death, in a case that set off rioting and the torching of a Christian neighborhood last year. That was the case in March 2013, when a Muslim friend of the27
Mar
2014
(Reuters) - A Texas state judge ordered the department of corrections on Thursday to disclose the name of the supplier of drugs used in executions, a decision that adds support to calls for removing secrecy when it comes to lethal injections. The suit was brought on behalf of two inmates27
Mar
2014
Doha: A Doha court on Thursday sentenced a Qatari national to death for the murder last year of 24-year-old British teacher Lauren Patterson, a judicial source said. A second Qatari, Mohammad Hassan Abdul Aziz, was given three years in prison for aiding the first convict, Badr Khamis
AUSTIN - Two condemned killers, including a onetime drifter who once claimed he killed 70 people in a cross-country crime spree spanning 19 years, sued state officials on Wednesday to force them to disclose details about the execution drugs that will be used to end their lives. In a27
Mar
2014
Venus Nights – a musical extravaganza celebrating women in music and raising money for charities. Outstanding female musicians are donating their time to create a one-night event at the Hippodrome Casino, one of London’s few remaining Victorian music halls and the jewel-box of01
Apr
2014
Several human rights and anti-death penalty groups have asked the American Pharmacists Association to prohibit members from participating in executions, a request that comes as states increasingly turn to pharmacists for lethal injection drugs. The groups, which include Amnesty
Michelle Byrom (CNN) -- A new trial has been ordered for Mississippi death row inmate Michelle Byrom, according to a state Supreme Court opinion issued Monday. Byrom's capital murder conviction was reversed, and the case has been remanded to the circuit court for a new31
Mar
2014
Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Until 5 April: International Anti-Street Harassment Week Catcalls, sexist comments, flashing, groping, stalking, and assault in public spaces…. Gender-based street harassment impacts all women
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice said Thursday that it will continue carrying out capital punishment lawfully and with discretion in spite of Amnesty International (AI) renewing its call for the abolishment of the death penalty worldwide. Taiwan executed 6 inmates convicted of violent crimes28
Mar
2014
Two women are killed by a violent partner or ex-partner every week in England and Wales. A toll unchanged in over a decade. In September 2013 the Home Secretary, Theresa May, commissioned Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to undertake a national inspection of the policeIwao Hakamada TOKYO — Iwao Hakamada was a wiry former boxer in his 30s when he was thrown in jail for the killing of a family of four that shocked 1960s Japan. On Thursday, he limped from his cell on death row, a bewildered-looking 78-year-old who, his family fears, may28
Mar
2014
Questioning Lincoln’s Conservative MP Karl McCartney’s use of Twitter. Earlier this week a Conservative Lincolnshire County Councillor, Richard Davies, tweeted a picture of a row of women in their underwear. Along with an offensive remark. And in effect compared prospective27
Mar
2014
‘When women and girls have access to and are able to use ICTs, we can make progress…’ Among the speeches given by the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, at the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) held at New York earlier this
Despite a long-term decline in the number of countries practicing capital punishment, publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 percent in 2013 compared with a year earlier, largely because of “virtual killing sprees” carried out by the authorities in Iran and Iraq, Amnesty
An Oklahoma judge ruled on Wednesday that the state could not keep secret the identities of the suppliers of lethal-injection drugs, raising doubts about the executions of two prisoners next month and fueling a growing legal battle in several states over secrecy in methods of execution.27
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2014
Women: participate in the European elections in May for a chance to see real change to gender equality. On 2 March 2009, the European Parliament and the Commission published the results of a survey on women and the European elections. The survey revealed that women did not consider their