The nine nations with records of persistent executionscan be seen at the bottom of Amnesty's mapThe gruesome, botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma Tuesday night has brought renewed focus on some of the grim realities of the death penalty in America. While the terrifying course of Locket's death is a relatively rare occurrence
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(file photo)Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad (Northeastern Iran) in the past few days. Three other prisoners were hanged early this morning in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran). Iran Human Rights, May 1, 2014: Three prisoners were hanged in the Vakilabad prison of01
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Oklahoma Death ChamberTuesday night, Oklahoma tortured a man to death. At 6:23 local time, a doctor began to inject Clayton Lockett with a sedative. Seven minutes later, convinced Lockett was sedated, the doctor then began to inject the second and third drugs in
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Clayton LockettClayton Lockett's execution was slated to begin at 6:00 p.m.At 6:37 Clayton Lockett was not unconscious and said something is wrong.Clayton Lockett convulsed several times, his chest and head rising off the gurney at multiple points.Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections closed the blinds29
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TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities said they executed five death-row inmates Tuesday, nearly a year after six prisoners were put to death.The justice ministry said the five were put to death in various parts of the island. They were the first executions ordered by Luo Ying-shay since she became justice29
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)NCRI - The anti-human clerical regime in Iran hanged three young Sunni Baluchi political prisoners on Saturday, April 26, in the city of Zabol (Sistan & Baluchistan Province). Ali Dahmardeh, 20, Eman Galwi, 20, and Omid Peeri, 23, were condemned to death in
San Quentin's Death ChamberNew research finds that almost four percent of U.S. capital punishment sentences are wrongful convictions, almost double the number of people set free, meaning around 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America are not guilty.The United States may be putting28
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MINYA, Egypt — An Egyptian court here on Monday sentenced to death the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and more than 680 other people after a swift mass trial on charges of inciting or committing acts of violence that led to the destruction of a police station and the killing
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As executions decline in Texas, a small-town prosecutor decides whether to seek the death penalty.One morning in August 2011, Matagorda County District Attorney Steven Reis drove out to a crime scene at a remote, secluded farmhouse. A 78-year-old man named Glen Sam Prinzing had been found dead at25
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a man of 63 to death by stoning for raping a girl of 10 and infecting her with HIV.Ubale Sa'idu Dotsa admitted raping the girl but said he had incited by the Devil, reports the AP news agency.His two wives have reportedly died
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So far this year 19 prisoners have been put to death in America, seven of them in Texas. Another 14 are scheduled to die. According to Amnesty International, America executes more people than any country except China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia—disreputable peers for the land of the free. But23
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William RousanBONNE TERRE, Mo. — Missouri executed an inmate early Wednesday who was convicted of killing a farming couple in 1993 as part of a plot to steal their cows.William Rousan's last words were, "My trials and transgressions have been many. But thanks be to my Lord and savior, Jesus01
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The Sultan of BruneiBANDAR SERI BEGWAN, Brunei — The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has announced that harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, will come into effect on Thursday despite international01
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LONDON — Europeans largely consider the death penalty a particularly brutal American anachronism, but the prolonged death of Clayton D. Lockett in Oklahoma, after a botched execution by lethal injection, produced more than the usual horror on Wednesday.The death penalty is banned in the European29
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Oklahoma Death ChamberTonight Oklahoma will continue the nation's ongoing experiment in executing people with untested drug combinations as it moves forward to kill death row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner using a new, secretly acquired drug cocktail.Officials in Oklahoma and other
The UN human rights office on Tuesday voiced concern over moves to revive the death penalty in the Maldives, including for minors, after a six-decade freeze on capital punishment in the Indian Ocean archipelago."We are deeply concerned about a new regulation adopted in the Maldives on29
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio said Monday it's boosting the dosages of its lethal injection drugs even as it stands by the January execution of an inmate who made snorting and gasping sounds that led to a civil rights lawsuit by his family and calls for a moratorium.The state's new policy considerably28
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The death penalty can be implemented in the Maldives starting today following the publication of procedural regulations in the government gazette, Minister of Home Affairs Umar Naseer has said.Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, Naseer said the chances of killing an innocent person
Lawyers and others disagree of whether a bill that passed in the legislature could legally force death row inmates with older convictions to die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs aren't available.Tennessee's legislature passed a bill that would allow death by electrocution if drugs
Photo of the public executionIran Human Rights, April 26, 2014: Three prisoners who were charged with the assassination of the prosecutor of Zabol in November 2013, were hanged publicly at the site of the assassination early this morning.According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, the25
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that two death row inmates are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them, putting them back on track to be executed as early as next week.In rejecting the inmates' claims late Wednesday, the
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Robert HendrixSTARKE, Florida — Florida executed a man by lethal injection at 6:21 p.m. Wednesday at Florida State Prison in Starke. Robert Hendrix declined to make a final statement before the lethal drugs were administered.The U.S. Supreme Court denied Hendrix's last-minute request for a stay23
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Public execution in IranNCRI - As international protests against the rising trend of group and arbitrary executions in Iran become stronger every day, Hassan Rouhani, the clerical regime's president, describes the anti-human and anti-Islamic executions in Iran as “God’s commandments” or “laws of
Arthur TylerOhio Gov. John Kasich has granted clemency to a condemned killer who was scheduled to die next month for killing a Cleveland produce vendor.Kasich's decision follows Tuesday's recommendation by the Ohio Parole Board in favor of mercy for Arthur Tyler, whose attorneys argue he is30
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Clayton Lockett[LIVE FEED] Clayton Lockett's execution was slated to begin at 6:00 p.m.At 6:37 Clayton Lockett was not unconscious and said "something is wrong".Clayton Lockett convulsed several times, his chest and head rising off the gurney at multiple points. Inmate 'struggled violentlyThe Ohio Parole Board recommended to Gov. John Kasich today that convicted killer Arthur Tyler’s death sentence should be commuted to time served, making him immediately eligible for release from prison.The entire panel voted 11-0 to grant clemency to Tyler, 54, of Cleveland, who is scheduled to
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Death Penalty in the USAThe Death Penalty in the USA. Produced from ArrestRecords.com Source: The Death Penalty in the USA, ArrestRecords.com, April 28, 2014
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Oklahoma Death ChamberThe State of Oklahoma is set to conduct its first double execution Tuesday, April 29, beginning at 6 p.m. The two inmates, Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, are both scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection after their original stays of execution were overturned byA man who spent more than two decades on death row was found dead in his cell at North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland Sunday morning, a state corrections spokesman said.Corrections staff at the prison found John Booth-El, 60, unresponsive not long after an officer had spoken with
Iran Human Rights, April 26, 2014: One prisoner was hanged in the public in Semnan (Northern Iran) today, April 26, reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Semnan province.semnan260414The prisoner who was identified as “H. B.”, was convicted of rape, said the report.Earlier25
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Holding cells in Texas' Death House, where inmatesspend their last hours before being put to death.The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasHow America can - and will - abolish the death penaltyNew Hampshire has just failed to abolish the death penalty - by 1 vote. Given that the Granite State has not25
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Iran Human Rights, April 24: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Sari (Northern Iran) early this morning April 24, reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Mazanderan Province.The prisoner who was identified as “M. R. Gh.” was convicted of murdering another person under a
State media say a court in Vietnam has sentenced an American to death for heroin trafficking.The Liberated Saigon newspaper says Jason Dinh, 41, was convicted of trafficking 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin at a one-day trial by Ho Chi Minh City's People's Court on Tuesday.The paper said22
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It wasn't immediately clear that the execution had gone wrong.All Stephen Ellis could see from the viewing room of Holman Correctional Facility's execution chamber was his client, Horace Dunkins, twitching and jerking after being administered up to 2000 volts of electricity.Almost 10 minutes