Six men accused of raping a Swiss tourist who was cycling with her husband in central India have been produced in court and charged with gang rape.The attack occurred Friday night as the Swiss couple camped in a forest in Datia district. Police said the men attacked the husband, tying him to a tree before raping his wife.The couple told police...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/03/6-charged-with-gang-rape-in-india-after.html18
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Manama: A Saudi court has sentenced an Indonesian domestic helper to death for killing the four-year-old daughter of her sponsors.The helper was also sentenced to eight months in prison and to 200 lashes for attempting to commit suicide after she killed Tala in the Red Sea city of Yanbu.Saudi15
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Kerobokan PrisonBali, Indonesia"Indonesia remains a country that opposes the death penalty for its own citizens abroad but continues to apply capital punishment within its own borders." Dave McRae, Staying the executioners' guns?Indonesia on Friday executed its first death row prisoner in15
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Public execution in YemenSanaa, July 6, 2009March 9, 2013: Mohammed Haza'a was put to death by the Yemeni government despite legitimate questions as to whether he was under the age of 18 when he committed an alleged murder.In 1999, Mohammed shot an intruder at his home in the central Yemeni city
Execution chamberat Tokyo Detention CenterFIDH and CPR deeply regret that the government of Japan refused to accept important recommendations related to the criminal justice system, in particular a moratorium or abolition of the death penalty and reform of substitute detention in police stations15
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Struggling to obtain quantities of a lethal injection drug in order to carry out the state's first execution in 15 years, the Colorado Department of Corrections is now turning to pharmacists for help.On Tuesday, the department sent a letter asking pharmacies across the state for help securing13
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Public execution takes place in Saudi Arabia's Abha square despite appeals by international rights groupsRiyadh: A Saudi firing squad on Wednesday executed in public seven men convicted of armed robbery despite last-minute appeals by rights groups that their lives be spared, the interior ministry
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In what would be a significant change to the state's capital punishment system, a Florida Senate panel discussed a bill Monday to require a jury to unanimously recommend the death penalty.The Senate's Criminal Justice committee took up the bill (SB 148), but ran out of time to11
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His execution brings to 18 the number beheaded in Saudi Arabia so far this year.Riyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded on Monday in Riyadh one of its nationals convicted of stabbing to death a fellow Saudi, the interior ministry said.Khalid Bin Hamad stabbed to death Abdul Mohsen Bin Othman after a
Thirteen years ago, while millions of folks were fretting the onset of Y2K, Steven Ray Thacker was creating a doomsday all his own.From Dec. 23, 1999, to Jan. 2, 2000, Thacker killed three people in as many states, starting with the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of Laci Dawn Hill, 25, of
Before Texas executed Marvin Wilson last year for the 1992 murder of Jerry Robert Williams in Beaumont, his case generated headlines, reminding the nation of a rather unique corner of death penalty law here.The standards used to determine whether a Texan convicted of murder is mentally fit to be06
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Plans to execute, next week [Executions have been stayed as of March 3, 2013], 7 men convicted after being allegedly tortured into "confessing" to an armed robbery and then crucify the body of 1 of them confirm Saudi Arabia's fundamentally flawed approach to law and order, Amnesty International
A soldier has been stoned to death in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest over allegations of an affair with a teenage girl, officials said on Wednesday.A tribal council in the town of Parachinar, close to the Afghan border in Kurram district, ordered the sentence on Anwar-ud Din, who was about 25
Lawyers for an inmate whose execution was halted at the last minute urged a Texas court Wednesday to overturn his death penalty on the grounds that it was the result of racial discrimination.Duane Buck, 49, was condemned to die for the 1995 murder of his girlfriend and one of her friends.Neither15
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March 13, 2013: Two men sentenced to death for drug dealing had their sentence commuted to four years in prison by the Appeals Court in the United Arab Emirates.The court erupted in cheers from the relatives of MB, 19, from Syria, and NL, 21, a Briton, as the verdict was announced. The mother of15
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An Arizona mother who was sentenced to death in the killing of her 4-year-old son has had her conviction thrown out today after she spent 22 years on death row.A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Debra Jean Milke's murder conviction would not stand after they determined that a detective who13
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Steven Ray ThackerMcALESTER — Convicted multi-murderer Steven Ray Thacker was executed Tuesday night, 13 years after the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of his first victim, Laci Dawn Hill, 25, of Bixby.Legal drugs were injected into his system beginning at 6:03 p.m. He was pronounced dead at
Colorado Death ChamberAttorneys for Colorado death-row inmate Nathan Dunlap are working on a clemency petition in the hopes of persuading Gov. John Hickenlooper to spare the killer's life.Records show, however, that the petition will not be the first outreach by Dunlap's attorneys to the11
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Whether he was killed or committed suicide, the jailhouse death Monday of a man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus has triggered shock at the enormous security failure at one of India's best-known prisons.Authorities said Ram Singh, who was10
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AL ARABIYA - Saudi Arabia is looking into the possibility of implementing executions by shooting and not decapitation, Saudi daily “Al-Yawm” reported on Sunday.The daily quoted sources as saying the suggestion was being studied by a commission formed from members of the ministries of interior and07
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Iran Human Rights, March 6: Three prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian cities.Public execution of two prisoners in Mianeh:Two prisoners were hanged publicly in the Torkmanchai area of Mianeh (northwestern Iran) reported the state run Iranian news agency Mehr. The prisoners who were06
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Chinese history was made in Kunming, Yunnan Province on Friday, when Naw Kham, the notorious Myanmar drug lord from the Golden Triangle, was executed along with 3 of his accomplices. A flurry of media reports have followed the case given its significance as the first time China has hunted down15
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(Reuters) - The Maryland House of Delegates voted on Friday to overturn the state's death penalty, putting it a step closer to becoming the 18th U.S. state to abolish executions.By a vote of 82 to 56, the House agreed to replace capital punishment with a sentence of life without parole. It
European Parliament threatens to halt funds to Egypt, citing Port Said death sentences, human rights violations, and lack of political consensus in Egypt.The European (EU) Parliament passed a resolution threatening to withhold budget support to Egypt if it fails to take significant steps to abide15
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March 13, 2013: An Algeria court sentenced a former police commissioner to death for murdering a woman colleague and concealing the evidence of his crime, media reports said.Abdelkrim Boutrik, formerly police chief in Adrar more than 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) from Algiers, cut the throat of
The European Union on Wednesday strongly criticized Saudi Arabia for executing seven men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery despite repeated appeals by the European bloc as well as United Nations experts and rights groups to spare their lives.The seven men were reportedly shot to death13
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Black inmates in Houston more than three times as likely to face death sentence than whites, groundbreaking study shows.Black defendants facing trial in Houston – the death penalty capital of America – are more than three times as likely to face a possible death sentence than whites, new academic
Lawmakers returning to Dover today will consider repealing Delaware’s death penalty, overturning all 17 current death row sentences and substituting life without parole.A bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Sen. Karen Peterson, D-Stanton, is teaming with the American Civil Liberties Union to12
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has suspended all executions for three months, giving a Filipino worker on death row an unexpected reprieve after his family and the Philippine government failed to meet a deadline to raise compensation money to pay the victim's family, officials said Tuesday.Vice11
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Convicted murderer Gary Haugen's request to be executed will be heard by the state Supreme Court this week.The seven justices will hear oral arguments Thursday on whether the twice-convicted murderer can legally reject an unconditional reprieve issued by Gov. John Kitzhaber in 2011. Kitzhaber's08
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's death row population has dwindled to eight from a peak of 57 in 1995, and it's not just because of the state's efficiency in carrying out capital punishment.A couple of death sentences have been erased recently -- one because of the inmate's mental health issues06
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Frederick TreeshLUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard in 1994 at the end of a multistate crime spree was executed on Wednesday.Frederick Treesh received a single powerful dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 10:37 by Donald Morgan, warden of
Iran's human rights record has deteriorated over the past year with a rise in the number of public executions coupled with ever-shrinking space for political dissent, a UN special investigator has said during a visit to Dublin.Last month Ahmed Shaheed, who was appointed UN special rapporteur on