The looming execution of a Mexican highlights the fate of foreigners on death row in the United States who were not informed of their rights and risk being put to death in violation of international law, experts say. Edgar Tamayo Arias, who was convicted in the 1994 fatal shooting of a police officer, is set to die by lethal injection in Texas on... The looming execution of a Mexican highlights the fate of foreigners on death row in the United States who were not informed of their rights and risk being put to death in violation of international law, experts say. Edgar Tamayo Arias, who was convicted in the 1994 fatal shooting of a police officer, is set to die by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday. With the clock19
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(Reuters) - Lawmakers for at least two U.S. states say they should conduct executions by firing squad if opposition to capital punishment by pharmaceutical companies makes it hard to obtain drugs for lethal injections. States have turned to pharmacies that customize drugs and adopted
Riyadh: A Saudi court has sentenced to death two Chadian Islamists convicted of murdering a French expatriate in the western city of Jeddah, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday. The two are part of a group of 12 people — seven Chadians, four Saudis, and a Yemeni &mdash17
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Lisa Simpson, permanent eight-year-old and the emotional heart of The Simpsons, is an excellent role model for young girls. Another of our regular cross-posts from Bitchflicks. By Lady T. The Simpsons, now in its record-breaking 25th season, is one of the most influential comedies of our17
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The back page of yesterday’s Daily Star featured an awful advert from UK insurance company Vine Cover. ‘We understand that mistakes happen…!’ says the ad. The ‘mistake’ in question – a woman – is pictured seated at the foot of a man’s16
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New campaign after polling showed how prevalent homophobic behavior still is. Stonewall has launched a national campaign to tackle the still endemic levels of homophobia in Britain’s workplaces. The new campaign’s posters feature two people and a slogan saying either: ‘One16
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Unintended consequences of a boycott Pentobarbital and sodium thiopental are anaesthetics, used around the world by doctors and vets on all kinds of patients in a variety of cases. They are also used to render prisoners unconscious in the ten U.S. states that use lethal injection to16
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After 325 years of male leadership, a female head of Lloyd’s of London. Inga Beale is a 30-year veteran of the insurance industry, and she takes leadership of the world’s largest insurance market, Lloyd’s of London. Only 40 years after the first woman, Liliana Archibald
The police investigate the victim instead of her rapist. By Lisa Longstaff. The UK police do not take rape seriously. Women who have been saying this for years have been proved right time and again, as serial attackers Jimmy Savile, John Worboys, the Oxford and Rochdale rapists and many15
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And last year’s coverage of Female Genital Mutilation may well save lives. The UK government’s inquiry into Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), launched last month, proved a fitting end to 2013, a year that saw the issue propelled to the national spotlight. The UK’s Home
January 14, 2014: an Afghan citizen has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom for religious reasons - because he is an atheist. The man fled to the UK from a conflict involving his family in Afghanistan in 2007, aged 16, and was allowed to stay in the UK until 2013. He was broughtA court on Tuesday sentenced Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in Shaanxi Province, to death but with two years’ reprieve for stealing seven babies and selling them.Death sentences with two years’ reprieve are almost always changed later to life sentences. Source: NYT, January 13
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Dennis McGuire As the lethal drugs flowed into his veins in the Ohio death chamber, Dennis B. McGuire at first “went unconscious” and his body was still, his daughter, Amber McGuire, said Friday. But a few minutes later, she said, she was horrified to see herDennis McGuire DAYTON — A Dayton law firm said it will file a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family of executed killer Dennis McGuire. They are seeking an injunction on the death penalty in Ohio claiming the execution of McGuire violated the eighth amendment of the17
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As Trouble and Strife launches its digital archive, Rosie Fox considers the benefits of printed magazines. The feminist journal Trouble and Strife (T&S) is a quirky, visual, yet delightful maze of a journal. Launched in 1983, T&S acknowledged its radical feminist outlook in the name16
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Public flogging in Iran HRANA News Agency – Three prisoners were flogged in public on December 25, 2013.The sentence was carried out in the main square of the city of Dehdasht. According to a report from Fars, Majid Karami, the prosecutor of Kohgiluye va Boyerahmad16
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Predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria introduced Sharia law in 2000 Predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria introduced Sharia law in 2000 An Islamic court in Nigeria has put on trial 11 Muslim men accused of violating their religion due to their alleged sexuality – if found guilty16
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Iran Human Rights, January 15: Six prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons early this morning January 15. The state run Iranian news agency Fars reported about execution of five prisoners in the prison of Shahroud (northern Iran). Tthese prisoners were identified as M. Y16
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Donna Navarro reviews Lady in Red: the original stage play. It has been hailed by audiences across the UK as the best play about domestic abuse ever written. ‘In the darkness a small, grey table is warmed by a blue light. On it, a miniature Christmas tree with baubles and the lights15
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Public hanging in Saveh, Iran, January 14, 2014 Iran Human Rights, January 14: Seven prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian cities yesterday 14. January, reported the Iranian state media. According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, five prisoners were
Ohio's state execution team is finalising plans to dispatch a convicted murderer and rapist on death row using a never-before-tried combination of two drugs which defence lawyers say threatens to leave him writhing in agony from "air hunger" before he loses consciousness and expires. The14
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January 12, 2014: the Sharjah Public Prosecution has postponed the execution of five men convicted for murder on account of the Prophet’s birthday. Their death sentences were pronounced by the Supreme Court in 2013. The prosecution said that according to plans, the five men
Public beheading in Saudi Arabia Last year, Saudi Arabia executed 78 people Riyadh: Saudi authorities beheaded Tuesday two Pakistanis for drug smuggling in the ultraconservative kingdom’s first executions of the year, the interior ministry said. Abrar Hussain Nizar17
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XI'AN, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The suspended death sentence of a baby-trafficking doctor announced Tuesday has brought nationwide controversy, with some netizens calling for stiffer punishment while experts say the penalty is justified. Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in Fuping County in17
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Death row inmates in Virginia who wish to die by lethal injection still could face execution by electrocution under a bill that advanced Thursday in the House of Delegates. By a 4-1 voice vote, a House subcommittee on Militia, Police and Public Safety backed a measure that would override17
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A survey has suggested that more than half of women have been discriminated against at work. The campaign group Opportunity Now, which was founded in 1991 to improve working conditions for women, launched Project 28–40 to investigate women’s experience in the workplace16
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Dennis McGuire A man convicted of murder in the US state of Ohio has been executed using a new, never-before-tried lethal injection combination. Dennis McGuire, 53, was killed on Thursday with a two-drug cocktail, after the maker of the previous execution drug16
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Huntsville Unit's Execution Chamber, Huntsville, Texas At some point for Fred Allen, something snapped. He’d done one too many. He broke. Years had gone by, but he could still picture the eyes of every inmate he'd helped tie down, restrain with multiple straps so that16
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Prisons in the US are sitting on large stockpiles of life-saving medicines, which they plan to use in executions, while hospitals face shortages of the same drugs. Death rows in Florida and Ohio have both bought up supplies of midazolam – a sedative used in surgery and to treat15
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Today’s back page features an awful ad from UK insurance company Vine Cover. According to their website Vine specialise in ‘convicted driver car insurance’ as well as misogyny.... Today’s back page features an awful ad from UK insurance company Vine Cover15
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Help scrap the Benefit Cap which traps women and children in violent relationships. The campaign group Women Against Rape is asking organisations and individuals to support women and children impoverished by the Benefit Cap after escaping violent relationships by signing a petition asking
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia judge vacated the death sentence of a man convicted of killing a police officer, citing restrictions on executing the developmentally disabled. Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina ruled Friday the death penalty cannot be enforced against
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming lawmaker is pushing to allow use of the firing squad to execute condemned state inmates if constitutional problems or other issues ever prevented the state from using lethal injection. Sen. Bruce Burns, R-Sheridan, said Monday that state law currently14
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Iran Human Rights, January 12: Three prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons, reported the Iranian state media. According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, a 45 year old prisoner was hanged in the prison of Yasouj (western Iran). The prisoner who was not identified