Public hanging in Karaj,Iran, Feb. 26, 2014 Yesterday Iran Human Rights (IHR) had warned about scheduled execution of seven prisoners from Rajaishahr prison of Karaj. This morning six people were hanged, three of them publicly at three different spots of Karaj. Iran Human Rights strongly condemns the wave of executions in Iran and calls for... Public hanging in Karaj,Iran, Feb. 26, 2014 Yesterday Iran Human Rights (IHR) had warned about scheduled execution of seven prisoners from Rajaishahr prison of Karaj. This morning six people were hanged, three of them publicly at three different spots of Karaj. Iran Human Rights strongly condemns the wave of executions in Iran and calls26
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Public beheading in KSA His execution in Qatif brings to 11 the number of executions this year Riyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded one its citizens in the Eastern Province on Wednesday after he was convicted of murdering a compatriot, the interior ministry announced. Abdullah26
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Works by women artists at the two London Tates tackle political and industrial issues. A ‘spotlight display’ in the TATE Britain on Millbank, called Women and Work, looks at the industrial issues of the 1970s from an overtly feminist perspective. Between 1973 and 197525
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2014
Under pressure from a legislator to carry out executions of death row inmates, Minister of Justice Luo Ying-shay said Tuesday that her ministry will proceed cautiously in evaluating issues related to capital punishment. Kuomintang lawmaker Wu Yu-sheng questioned Luo at a legislative25
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2014
The state is seeking to set execution dates for two Mississippi death row inmates, one of whom would mark the first time the state put a female prisoner to death since 1944. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed the motions before the state Supreme Court on Monday, requesting dates25
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2014
HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from an Arlington woman on Texas death row for the starvation of a 9-year-old boy a decade ago. A Tarrant County jury in 2006 convicted Lisa Ann Coleman of capital murder and decided she should die for the death of25
Feb
2014
Starting a trip to Easter Island in the footsteps of anthropologist Katherine Routledge. A British woman is running, cycling and hitching lifts on container ships to get to the world’s most isolated island 100 years after another inspirational explorer made the same trip. Runner Susie24
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Women’s conference calls for more support for women, especially for working women. UNISON is calling for free emergency housing for all women fleeing domestic violence. UNISON is one of Britain’s largest unions, and more than two thirds of its.1.3 million members are women
Texas Death House My name is Kerry Max Cook, but for 2 decades, I was known as "Cook, Execution number 600." Innocent of the murder and rape I was accused of in 1977, my home became a tiny death row cell in Texas, the state that kills more people than anywhere else in the U.S23
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Execution Chamberat Tokyo Detention Center Despite government figures, the Japanese public appears increasingly skeptical of capital punishment. Since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in December 2012, eight Japanese prisoners have been executed. A 200923
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia Riyadh: A Saudi citizen convicted of murder was beheaded on Sunday, the interior ministry announced, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 10. Salem Al Jahdali beat fellow tribesman Abdullah Al Jahdali to death
The Virginia Department of Corrections said Thursday that it has approved the sedative midazolam as an alternative first drug in the state's three-drug execution protocol. Midazolam was one of two drugs used in last month's execution of an Ohio inmate who made snorting and gasping sounds and
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed a law that imposes a 14-year prison sentence for homosexual acts - and life sentences for those found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality." A measure imposing the death penalty was removed from an earlier version of the bill.26
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I watched BBC Three’s ‘Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents’ for a bit of light relief, but what I saw really alarmed me. Like many of my friends, a recent spoof article from the Onion really resonated and made me laugh. As a feminist, it can sometimes feel like I have to switch25
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2014
NEW DELHI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government Monday dropped the contentious anti-terror charge against two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012, thus exempting the duo from death penalty if convicted. The government conveyed its decision to the Supreme25
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2014
A 36-year-old factory worker escaped death when the High Court here yesterday acquitted him of a charge of trafficking in 6.782kg of methamphetamine 3 years ago. Judge Datuk Zakiah Kassim ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case against Ahmad Fauzi Ismail. The25
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2014
NCRI - Two prisoners were hanged on Tuesday in the northern city of Semnan, the Iranian regime's judiciary in the province has said. The two victims were identified by their first initials as M.Sh, and M.F. The prisoners had been imprisoned and sentenced to death on drug related25
Feb
2014
Ask your MP to vote for a Cumulative Impact Assessment and to end the Work Capability Assessment. By Sue Marsh. In 2013 a Resistance to the War on Welfare (WOW) petition was signed by over 104,000 people and secured a debate in the main chamber at the House of Commons, which is scheduled for24
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2014
Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bristol: 1 March: Rights and Reasons: International Women’s Rights Conference at Broadmead Baptist Church and Conference Centre, Union Street, Bristol from 9.30 – 4pm. To mark
"Death Row Stories" is a new 8-part series premiering on March 9 on CNN that will examine actual death penalty cases. The show is produced by Robert Redford and narrated by Dead Man Walking star Susan Sarandon. Redford said, "This series is about the search for justice and
NCRI - The families of inmates in the main prison in southern city of Ahwaz have reported that the death sentences for many prisoners have been confirmed by the Iranian regime's judiciary. The death sentences issued for the prisoners have been sent to the country's capital to be confirmed23
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2014
Jakarta Police arrested seven suspected drug traffickers at the capital’s airport and other locations earlier this month with 6.5 kilogram of crystal methamphetamine worth Rp 13 billion ($1.1 million), a police spokesman said. “The drug division has successfully arrested seven21
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2014
Sicilian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia: exhibition in Liverpool. Letizia Battaglia worked on the front-line as a photo-reporter during one of the most tragic periods in contemporary Italian history, known as the ‘anni di piombo’ &ndash26
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Michael Taylor A Missouri man who abducted, raped and murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl has been executed after the US Supreme Court dismissed a last-minute appeal. Michael Taylor, 47, who admitted killing Ann Harrison in the Kansas City area in 1989, died by lethal25
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2014
Greg Wilhoit Greg Wilhoit, a former Oklahoma death-row inmate from Tulsa and nationally-known anti-death penalty advocate whose story was included in author John Grisham's "The Innocent Man," died Feb. 14 in Sacramento, Calif., family members said. He was 59. A celebration25
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2014
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will not block Virginia from retrying an accused drug dealer, whose earlier capital murder conviction was set aside because of misconduct by prosecutors. The justices on Monday rejected an appeal by Justin Wolfe, who said the prosecutors' misdeeds were25
Feb
2014
ENTEBBE, Uganda — Uganda’s president on Monday signed a controversial anti-gay bill that has harsh penalties for homosexual sex, saying it is needed to deter what he called the West’s “social imperialism” promoting homosexuality in Africa. President Yoweri25
Feb
2014
KFC are coming under social media fire for their latest ‘Triple Xtra’ burger advert. Not only is the ad depressingly unoriginal, but it also relies on a combination of nagging girlfriend cliché and a cringe-inducing slogan (‘IT’S MAN TIME!!!’). The sexist24
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2014
‘Another thoroughly wasted opportunity to ensure patient safety’. The government’s response to Sir Bruce Keogh’s recent recommendations for overhauling the cosmetic treatment industry is welcome as far as it goes, but overall is “”too little, too late&rdquo24
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2014
Million Women Rise: 8 March 2014. Violence devastates the lives of so many women, families and communities. Just look at the reality of the UK today: One woman in four will experience domestic violence at some point in her life; Domestic violence has more repeat victims than any otherA South Dakota legislative panel has decided the state should keep the death penalty. After hearing from relatives of 2 murder victims, the House State Affairs Committee voted 7-6 to reject a measure that would have repealed the death penalty. The measure would have banned the death
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When the history of the long, slow decline of capital punishment in America is written, a footnote must be reserved for the Apothecary Shoppe of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Do not be deceived by the name. Quaint and cosy it may sound, but until this month the company was the unofficial supplier of the
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev added a second death penalty expert to his defense team today, less than a month after federal prosecutors announced they would seek execution if he is convicted in the deadly attacks, according to court papers. U.S. District Court Judge21
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(Reuters) - At least 80 people and perhaps as many as 95 have been executed in Iran already this year, a surge in the use of the death penalty that has dampened hopes for human rights reforms under President Hassan Rouhani, the United Nations said on Friday. Rouhani, who won a surprise