RICHMOND, Va (WVIR) - Lawmakers in the state legislature have killed a controversial death penalty bill - at least until next year. Due to a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs, the bill filed in the state Senate proposed using electrocution as Virginia’s secondary means of execution. The bill was met with fierce opposition by some... RICHMOND, Va (WVIR) - Lawmakers in the state legislature have killed a controversial death penalty bill - at least until next year. Due to a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs, the bill filed in the state Senate proposed using electrocution as Virginia’s secondary means of execution. The bill was met with fierce opposition by some who view electrocution as07
Feb
2014
Death Chamber atTokyo Detention Center Japan's opinion polls skewed, exaggerate support: Oxford expert LONDON – When defending Japan’s use of the death penalty, the government always cites overwhelming public support for the policy, and the last survey in 200907
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2014
Airlines continue to perpetuate 1960s-style stereotypes around female flight attendants. In an episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’, serial womaniser Barney Stinson goes on a monologue about “hot” professions. Air stewardesses, he insists, no longer hold this dubious06
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2014
Iran Human Rights, Fabruary 6, 2014: According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Hormozgan province, two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas early this morning, Thursday, February 6. The prisoners who were identified as “B. A.” and “F
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The practise can cause severe bleeding, infection, infertility and death. TRIGGER WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, a day to set about raising awareness of the practise and encouraging people to take a stand and to help05
Feb
2014
Originally a Twitter movement, #NotBuyingIt is now available to download as app. This app has been produced by The Representation Project, a movement that aims to ‘use film and media content to expose injustices created by gender stereotypes and to shift people’s consciousness
Hank Skinner PAMPA — A Texas Department of Public Safety expert testified Tuesday that genetic material found on a knife at the scene of a 1993 triple homicide was consistent with Hank Skinner’s DNA profile, but the death row inmate’s defense team maintains04
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2014
The current review of homicide laws may well lead to a reduction in the number of cases that draw the death penalty, lawyers say. The Law Society believes the review is significant as it would literally mean the "difference between life and death". Last month, Law Minister K. Shanmugam
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Feb. 21 whether to hear an appeal from a woman on Mississippi's death row who is seeking a new trial in the 1999 slaying of her husband based on claims that she was abused. Court officials say a decision could be announced shortly after the court
Scott Rush BALI Nine drug courier Scott Rush has been moved from Bali's Kerobokan Prison to another jail on the holiday island. The move, which has been signed off by authorities, came at Rush's own request in a bid to escape "temptations" at the jail - including drugs.04
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2014
Death-row inmate Christopher Sepulvado was granted a 90-day stay of execution today, just 2 days before he was set to be killed with a new, controversial combination of lethal-injection drugs. The state and Sepulvado's attorney's agreed to a 90-day temporary restraining order after a04
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2014
Juice – the vocal ensemble – are launching their single ‘Heal You’ on 6 February. Nonclassical is London’s longest running and only monthly classical club night, at The Shacklewell Arms in East London, and presents “a winningly eclectic mix” with07
Feb
2014
Not all children taught about consent at school, and we have no compulsory sex education. A survey of children and young people conducted by the Sex Education Forum, based at leading children’s charity the National Children’s Bureau, has found that almost one in three say they did06
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2014
A prisoner in Iran who had survived execution last October has been sentenced to life in prison, state-run media reported on Wednesday. The 37-year-old man named as Alireza M, father of 2 was hanged in Bojnourd prison on October 17, 2013 for drug related charges. His family went to06
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2014
’We can’t ignore the homophobic laws which the Russian government has recently passed and the resulting vicious crackdown.’ Or can we? Speaking out about the recent persecution of LGBT people in Russia, ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Shadow leader of the06
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2014
Suzanne Basso Capital murder defendant Suzanne Basso was executed in Huntsville, Texas Wednesday for the brutal 1998 slaying of a mentally disabled man, becoming only the 14th woman to be put to death since 1976. By comparison, almost 1,400 men have been put to death.She was05
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2014
Fujairah Court of Appeals sentences UAE national to death for stabbing a stateless man to death. The Fujairah Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's ruling sentencing a UAE national to death for stabbing a stateless man to death during a bitter scuffle in a hotel. The court05
Feb
2014
Terror suspects can only be held for max 28 days; there is no limit to how long an asylum-seeker can be held. Most of us can not imagine the suffering which women seeking asylum in the UK have been through. Their stories include rape, torture, imprisonment… However, for many, that04
Feb
2014
Boston Marathon finish linemoments before the explosions Despite the emotional devastation, the government is wrong to seek that punishment in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It was a horrendous attack. 2 bombs left in backpacks near the finish line of the annual Boston04
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2014
Suzanne Basso A federal judge has joined Texas' top criminal court in refusing to stop this week's scheduled execution of a woman condemned for the torture slaying of a mentally impaired man more than 15 years ago outside Houston. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake on Monday04
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2014
A Saudi court sentenced a man to three years in jail and ordered him lashed 360 times after he was found guilty of offering himself to other men through Twitter. Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police had arrested the man in the eastern town of Dammam following complaints by some04
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2014
Urge Olympic sponsors to speak out against Russian homophobia; protest on 5 February. In Russia, you can now be fined or arrested for speaking publicly about gay, lesbian, bi or trans issues; new laws have fuelled a massive surge in anti-gay violence within the country. But Principle 6 of04
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2014
Women more likely to opt for higher education, according to UCAS figures. A third more young women than men are now seeking higher education – a trend which some academic experts have called ‘unhealthy’. Latest application figures reveal 87,000 more women than men applied
“The main female characters are all dying, dead, or not human”. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. By Katherine Murray. Um… spoilers for Battlestar Galactica. What Battlestar Galactica is: To recap for anyone who isn’t familiar with the show but still06
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2014
Tennessee Death Chamber The state of Tennessee plans to execute 10 death row inmates over the next two years after changing the drug protocol to be used in lethal injections, officials said Wednesday. The state is scheduled to execute the condemned prisoners between April06
Feb
2014
The UK government plans to extend charges to primary and emergency care – and maternity care. In March the government plans to publish details of how it intends to extend charges for healthcare services to emergency and primary care. GP consultations will still be free, but05
Feb
2014
Virginia lawmakers are expected to vote this week to establish the electric chair as the state’s default method of execution when drugs used for lethal injection are not available. The measure, prompted by a long-standing shortage of the drugs, would make Virginia the only state05
Feb
2014
In what the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) are calling 'a step backward' for human rights, the Sultan of Brunei has announced that a series of laws that were formulated in 2013 are set to be enacted in April, 2014. The laws, which criminalize everything from adultery to05
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2014
Proposed Afghan law would effectively let batterers of women and girls off the hook. Afghan President Hamid Karzai should refuse to sign a new criminal procedure code that would effectively deny women protection from domestic violence and forced or child marriage, Human Rights Watch said04
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2014
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani ordered the hangings last Monday of a poet and a human rights activist from Iran's Arabic-speaking ethnic minority Ahvazis. The internationally acclaimed Iranian journalist Amir Taheri first reported on Tuesday on the hangings of Hashem Shaabani and Hadi
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev When accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is brought to trial later this year or early next, the life of the 20-year-old naturalized citizen won’t be the only thing at stake. In a very real way, the future of the death penalty—a04
Feb
2014
PAMPA — The defense rested its case Monday in Hank Skinner’s evidentiary hearing after a judge ruled a key witness could not testify. District Judge Steven Emmert ruled that the defense could not offer testimony from a neighbor of a relative of one of the victims of the 199304
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Britain’s women to watch. The build-up to the 2014 Winter Games has probably been one of the more troubled in Olympic history. It is hard for anyone with an ounce of political awareness not be disturbed by some of the events leading up to the Games: from the release of the members of03
Feb
2014
Crowdspeaking platform amplifies social media reach for campaigners. The social campaigning tool Thunderclap is being used to help spread the word on the EU-wide #EndFGM campaign. Organised by the Department for International Development (DFID), this Thunderclap aims to flood social media