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Texas Death Chamber Overturning a death sentence is generally understood to be harder than preventing that sentence from being issued in the first place. For post-conviction lawyers, the looming threat of execution makes every client’s need for representation extremely urgent, and the enormity of that need in relation to the number of lawyers... Texas Death Chamber Overturning a death sentence is generally understood to be harder than preventing that sentence from being issued in the first place. For post-conviction lawyers, the looming threat of execution makes every client’s need for representation extremely urgent, and the enormity of that need in relation to08
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Kim Jong-un Tokyo: A North Korean official has been executed with a flame-thrower, South Korean media has reported. He is one of up to 11 senior party officials with close ties to Jang Song-taek — Kim Jong-un’s recently purged uncle — who have been08
Apr
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April 7, 2014: The Iraqi authorities carried out death sentences against two convicted of "terrorist” charges as their court judgments issued against them have been approved by republic presidency. “The first convicted was charged in accordance with Article 4 of terrorism, and
Jakarta. Indonesian maid Wilfrida Soik escaped the death penalty after a Malaysian court on Monday acquitted her of murdering her elderly Malaysian employer on the ground of insanity, ending more than three years of legal battle that has drawn the attention of the Indonesian public and07
Apr
2014
When the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether a punishment is cruel and unusual, they examine it in terms of current standards of decency. The Court looks to the number of states using the punishment, and whether its use is frequent or declining. In 2005, for example, the court struck down07
Apr
2014
Indonesia has agreed to pay US$1.9 million to stop the impending execution of an Indonesian domestic helper on death row in Saudi Arabia for murder, a minister said. Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad was sentenced to death in 2011 for murdering her employer's wife and stealing money. She was due07
Apr
2014
An Associated Press survey of the nation's 32 death penalty states found that the vast majority refuse to disclose the source of their execution drugs. Some states with laws shielding information about execution drugs and policies and the challenges to those laws: GEORGIA Law: Shields the
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2014
The Rana Plaza building collapsed in April last year; 1,138 people lost their lives and over 2,000 more were injured. At least 27 global garment brands had recent or current orders in with the five garment factories in the building. Nearly all those who died or were injured were
Texas prison officials have offered scant evidence to support their claim that pharmacies that supply the state with execution drugs would be in danger of violence if their identities were made public. If those officials are investigating the threats, including a suggestion a truck bomb03
Apr
2014
‘Ensuring accountability ‘from those who claim to work in the name of peace and security for the international community’. In recent years, states and international organisations – including the United Nations – have been increasingly using peacekeeping operations03
Apr
2014
Protest planned as good practice guide suggests male heirs ‘receive double’ that of women’. Campaigners are demanding the Law Society tear up a practice note on ‘Sharia-compliant wills’ which they believe will lead to more discrimination against women and children
If you’ve been wrongly convicted through prosecutorial misconduct, there are a few ways you can try to hold the government accountable. The most obvious way would be to sue the prosecutor himself. This is just short of impossible. Anything a prosecutor does in his official capacity is
WASHINGTON — As states scramble to find drugs needed to carry out executions, the Supreme Court won't decide for now whether condemned prisoners deserve to know how they will die. The justices denied a hearing Monday to a Louisiana inmate who asked that state officials tell him what08
Apr
2014
New website demonstrates glacial pace of gender equality progress in the tech industry. We had so hoped this was April Fool’s Day idiocy, but it seems not. “Hot Tech Today” is, it says, a digital magazine. It offers tech news punctuated by pictures of scantily clad women07
Apr
2014
Cadbury respond to controversial Snickers advert by marketing their Boost bar with #SexismIsNuts. Snickers Australia recently uploaded a video featuring a group of builders shouting what the YouTube clip title describes as ‘loud empowering statements’ at women walking in the street07
Apr
2014
Kerobokan Prison Jakarta: Schapelle Corby admitted her guilt and said the fateful 2004 drug run that saw her locked up for ten years was actually her fourth trip to Bali as a courier, according to fellow Australian prisoner Renae Lawrence. Lawrence, one of the Bali Nine07
Apr
2014
On June 29, 2009, upon conviction of running a Ponzi scheme that bamboozled investors of at least $18 billion, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison. The sentence, the maximum prosecutors had requested, came at a time of public anger against bankers who had shown07
Apr
2014
New campaign to develop annual calendar of women’s competitions. Acknowledging that for women’s sport, ‘the Olympics and Paralympics are almost everything,’ the Women’s Sports and Fitness Foundation’s (WSFF) latest report has presented three essential
Todd Willingham The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied a request for a posthumous pardon for Cameron Todd Willingham, a man executed in 2004 after being convicted of setting his house on fire and killing his three young daughters. Members of Mr. Willingham’s04
Apr
2014
‘The right to free speech and the right to not have our lives determined by so-called ‘community leaders’ – invariably men.’ For some, 2014 is a momentous year. It marks, for example, 25 years since the Rushdie Affair and the birth of the feminist inspired03
Apr
2014
LACK of proper procedures to handle inmates on death row in the country is weighing heavily on the Prisons Department budget and adding to the problem of congestion. The inmates who are waiting to be executed live in agony and despair of not knowing when the hangman will arrive, as a03
Apr
2014
Tommy Lynn Sells A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a ruling requiring the Texas prison system to disclose more information about where it gets lethal-injection drugs, reversing a judge who had halted an upcoming execution. Only hours before the appellate03
Apr
2014
Ten films Kirsty NcNeill reckons will change how you think about politics. Former Downing Street adviser now a strategy consultant for campaigning organisations, Kirsty McNeill has put together a list of 10 films she reckons will change how you think about politics. From campaigning Chinese08
Apr
2014
A Christian couple have been sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly sending a text message considered insulting to the Prophet Mohamed. Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, from the eastern town of Gojra, were found guilty of sending the text to the imam of their local mosque, who08
Apr
2014
The British Medical Association argues that charges for temporary migrants are unfair. Proposed charges for immigrants to use NHS services aimed at stamping out so-called ‘health tourism’ will endanger pregnant women, advocacy groups have claimed. The Immigration Bill, first07
Apr
2014
Execution chamberat Tokyo Detention Center The world’s longest-serving death row inmate, Iwao Hakamada, was released after 48 years in prison, when a judge last month found that “the possibility of his innocence has become clear to a respectable degree.” Mr07
Apr
2014
Public execution in KSA Attacker kidnapped victims aged 6 to 11 from public areas and took them to his home in Jeddah Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s supreme court has upheld a death sentence handed down against a teacher convicted of kidnapping and raping eight young girls, a07
Apr
2014
Terre Haute, Indiana A death row inmate once slated to be the 1st person executed by the federal government on President Barack Obama's watch has won an indefinite stay of execution from a federal judge. Jeffery Paul, 37, obtained the order Thursday from U.S. District Court07
Apr
2014
‘Lads mag’ may be in talks about closing but its content will, unfortunately, live on. Famous for its dedication to promoting semi-naked women, football and ‘banter’, Nuts magazine has been in circulation for 10 years. It was announced recently that the04
Apr
2014
(CNN) -- Indonesia's government has stepped in at the eleventh hour to help save an Indonesian woman on death row in Saudi Arabia from being executed this weekend. Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad, a 40-year old working as a housemaid in the Gulf kingdom, was sentenced to death in 2011 after03
Apr
2014
Tommy Lynn Sells HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A serial killer has been put to death in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug. Tommy Lynn Sells was executed Thursday03
Apr
2014
Oklahoma Death Chamber Oklahoma will use a new and untried combination of compounded drugs in the executions of 2 men, according to an email the state sent to attorneys on Tuesday. Assistant attorney general John Hadden said the state plans to employ a lethal 3-drug
Assistant Public Defender Corrie-Ann Mainville made headlines this past weekend when she was quoted as saying that the state of Connecticut would have to kill her before she allows it to execute a convicted murderer whom she says is mentally ill. "I will not live another peaceful day in02
Apr
2014
On 30 March, a woman who was being detained in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre passed away. She has been named as Christine Case, from Jamaica. One of her friends in Yarl’s Wood told Women for Refugee Women, ‘We are very sad and grieving for her now. ‘They