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Texas Death Chamber HOUSTON - Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark wouldn't say where the agency obtained the drugs, arguing that... Texas Death Chamber HOUSTON - Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark wouldn't say where the agency obtained the drugs21
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Women’s Aid appeal. Women’s Aid’s policy team works to influence the government and decision makers so as to improve the lives of survivors of domestic abuse and create a world where a woman’s right to live free from violence is unquestioned. Your support helps us21
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2014
Public execution in Iran The mullahs in Iran are as enthusiastic as ever in meting “justice” at the end of a rope. International human rights groups are raising protests, but the mullahs vow no mercy, but continued repression, ever harsher.The Iranian state has21
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2014
A new domestic abuse initiative has now been extended across England and Wales. This means that someone can ring the police if they have concerns about a partner’s past. The police will then decide whether to tell you about the partner’s abusive past. If they have a record20
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2014
Progress for women and girls on the Millennium Development Goals remains ‘unacceptably slow’. UN Women’s executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka spoke at the high-level event with heads of UN agencies “Accelerating progress on the MDGs for women and girls” in19
Mar
2014
A longer-term strategy to achieve peace and justice for Palestinians is needed. Members of an international delegation attempting to travel through Egypt to Gaza for International Women’s Day were deported from Egypt recently. The purpose of the delegation was show solidarity with the18
Mar
2014
If your local MP is a Tory who still hasn’t signed the MPs’ Letter of Support please send them this. No More Page 3 supporter Lizzy Woodfield wrote this amazing letter to her local Conservative MP, to send to him on International Women’s Day. If your local MP is a Tory who
This photo of Glenn Ford was taken by his lawyeron March 11, 2014— Ford's first day of freedom after30 years in prison—near St. Francisville, LA (Gary Clements) Anywhere he wanted to go, the jubilant defense attorneys told a hungry Glenn Ford late Tuesday afternoon17
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Of the roughly 450 inmates who die in Texas prisons each year, about 100 are laid to rest in Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery. Whether they die in one of the state’s 109 prison units, at the TDCJ hospital in Galveston, or at the prison system’s hospice facility near Palestine, the17
Mar
2014
Iran Human Rights, March 16: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan (Northern Iran) early this morning. The official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Semnan reported that the prisoner, identified as “H. P.” son of Mohammadreza, was convicted of murder. There has
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. UK-wide: 22 March: ‘Stand up to racism and fascism‘: parades throughout Europe. Click on the links for details of events in Cardiff, Glasgow and London. A day of action against racism14
Mar
2014
The fashion industry could lead the way to a toxic-free future. Never mind the catwalks of New York, Paris, Milan and London, the red carpet at the Oscar’s is the place to check out the latest high fashion trends, and this year’s ‘runway’ was sprinkled with Armanis and21
Mar
2014
Michelle Byrom Michelle Byrom is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi on March 27 for conspiring to murder her husband, Edward Byrom, Sr. Her son, Edward Byrom, Jr., known as Junior, confessed to the crime on multiple occasions, and wrote that he lied when he told21
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2014
Robert L. Henry STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida executed a man who killed 2 women by beating them with a hammer, setting them on fire. Authorities say 55-year-old Robert L. Henry was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. following a lethal injection Thursday at the Florida20
Mar
2014
One person showing this kind of bravery to allow others to speak out. Doreen Lawrence’s steadfast courage in the face of repeated police failures to investigate her son’s death is admirable, especially in the light of recent revelations that her family was spied on. Thankfully20
Mar
2014
Ray Jasper HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A former San Antonio rap musician was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday for a knife attack and robbery more than 15 years ago that left a 33-year-old recording studio owner dead. Ray Jasper, 33, faced injection with a lethal dose19
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2014
To counter ‘the vicious anti-immigrant discourse of mainstream politics’. A new campaign has been set up to combat racism against migrants in the UK. The Movement Against Xenophobia (MAX), was launched at a conference in London last weekend to counter what supporters call
Oklahoma's attorney general says the state does not have all of the lethal drugs necessary to carry out an execution set for Thursday. Two inmates, scheduled to die this month, have been fighting their executions while they seek more information about Oklahoma's execution procedures.18
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2014
It seems that some comrades are more equal than others. The University of London Union (ULU) has refused to host an event run by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The event, Marxism Festival 2014, is the annual summer school event of the Socialist Workers’ Party In a public17
Mar
2014
UN backs campaign, but UK’s education minister continues to dodge the issue. In February Fahma Mohamed, a 17 year-old student from Bristol, launched a Guardian-backed campaign to increase awareness of female genital mutilation (FGM) and stop the practice in both the UK and the rest of17
Mar
2014
The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty itself does not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." Yet the treatment of the condemned is nonetheless subject to Eighth Amendment protections, as well as Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process. In the past few years, this17
Mar
2014
Campaigning for real change for women. The economic crisis, combined with an approach to paying down the deficit that focusses on cutting public spending, has left women: Poorer – with 74 per cent of £22bn of austerity ‘savings’ coming from women’s pockets14
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2014
Tennessee can electrocute inmates if the drugs needed to perform lethal injection are unavailable, state lawyers say in an opinion released Thursday. A bill pending in the state legislature that allows the state to use the electric chair for all executions is constitutional, Attorney21
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2014
In the decades he spent filing stories from Jacksonville after visits to Florida’s execution chamber, former AP reporter Ron Word saw a lot that still lingers in the back of his mind. There are the images from the old days of the electric chair: The executioner’s black hood, only21
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2014
Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. By Rachel Redfern. The Big Bang Theory, the show that legitimizes the nerd in all of us and tickles that small (or large) part of us that gets the Star Trek jokes. The writers of the show are like geeky unicorns who can finally tell that nerdy joke20
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…but disabled people vow to fight on. The UK government has announced that it will go ahead with its planned closure of the Independent Living Fund despite a unanimous ruling in December by the English Court of Appeal. The Independent Living Fund (ILF) is a £320million19
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2014
The UK has announced steps to combat the rise in child marriages among Syrian refugees. In the last 3 years, more than 100,000 Syrians have been killed in the country’s civil war. Four million have been displaced within the country and two and a half million people have fled the country19
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2014
‘If we apply this imperative, the world will be a very different and far better place’. On the eve of International Women’s Day, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN under-secretary general and the executive director of UN Women, posted a powerful open letter urging men and boys to
JAKARTA, Indonesia — After 10 years in a Saudi prison, Ati Abeh Inan finally made it back to Indonesia last month. On death row for “casting a magic spell on her employer and his family,” she was pardoned by King Abdullah. Needless to say, she was very lucky. About 4018
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2014
This Index and wider research suggest that ‘flexible working’ could be holding women back. The PwC Women in Work Index has ranked the UK 18 out of 27 nations based on women’s participation in the labour market. Having shown improvement by reducing the wage gap from 26 per17
Mar
2014
Depending on whom you ask, there were twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight victims in Newtown. It’s twenty-six if you count only those who were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School; twenty-seven if you include Nancy Lanza; twenty-eight if you judge Adam’s suicide a loss17
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2014
There needs to be a line drawn … and not a blurred one. Rewind&Reframe is petitioning the Prime Minister, David Cameron, asking for age-ratings to be put on music videos whether sold in shops or viewed online. The letter to him runs thus: Dear Mr Cameron, As a music fan, I14
Mar
2014
It’s that you say it. Mary Beard is as famous for her strong feminist views as she is for being disgustingly abused on social media for her feminist views. She recently held a lecture entitled ‘The Public Voice of Women’ which could also have been called ‘the battered14
Mar
2014
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has declared that the Progressive Party of Maldives-led (PPM) coalition government will implement the death penalty despite international pressure. Speaking at a campaign event for PPM MP Ahmed Mahloof in Male’ last night, President Yameen