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Public execution in YemenSanaa, July 6, 2009Yemen's government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi should immediately reverse execution orders for three alleged juvenile offenders on death row who have exhausted all appeals...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/03/yemen-juvenile-offenders-face-execution.html05
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North Carolinians would rather have convicted killers pay restitution to their victims' families if they spend the rest of their lives behind bars, according to a new poll.A survey by Public Policy Polling found 68 % of North Carolina residents support replacing the death penalty with life in04
Mar
2013
New Delhi, Mar 4, 2013 (PTI) - India today assured Portugal that it would remain compliant with the expectations of Portuguese system and judiciary on the issue of gangster Abu Salem.The assurance comes amidst Portugal raising objection to the charges invoked by the police against Salem, who was03
Mar
2013
On Thursday February 14, Doctors in Al-Ribat University hospital in Khartoum-Sudan executed a court sentence of amputation of a man who was convicted of Brigandage. His right hand and left foot was cut off by doctors in the hospital. He is 30 years old and accused of robbery. According to the01
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Iran Human Rights, February 28: Six prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian cities reported the Iranian state media. Four of the prisoners were hanged in public.Four prisoners hanged publicly in Gachsaran (western Iran) today:According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA four
Appeals of 5,378 pending in provincial high courts, 1,031 in apex courtThe Supreme Court was informed on Wednesday that 7,046 inmates on death row are awaiting execution across the country.The Interior Ministry, through the attorney general of Pakistan's office, on Wednesday submitted complete25
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2013
His execution brings to 16 number of people beheaded in kingdom this year.Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a Jordanian man convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said.Faris Salam Salama Al Maghrebi was arrested while attempting to “smuggle a large amount of amphetamine”
The majority of young South Africans want the death penalty to be reinstated, consumer insights company Pondering Panda said on Friday."It was found that more than 3 in 4 young South Africans think the death penalty should be reinstated as the highest form of punishment for criminals,"22
Feb
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Iran Human Rights, February 21: Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Dizelabad in Kermanshah (western Iran) yesterday Wednesday February 20.According to the Iranian national broadcasting in Kermanshah the prisoners were convicted of drug trafficking. No further details were given about the
The Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday reported the kingdom had beheaded Abdulkarim Ibrahim Mousa Abkar, a Chadian national convicted of smuggling drugs. It was the fourteenth such execution in Saudi Arabia since the start of the new year.Those convicted of charges that include murder, rape, drug20
Feb
2013
In December, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a global moratorium on the death penalty. This fourth such vote in five years was supported by a record 111 nations.Yet in the first month of 2013, Saudi Arabia beheaded nine people. In recent weeks, Yemen has sentenced a20
Feb
2013
Countries at odds since January beheading of domestic worker convicted for murder.Riyadh: Saudi Arabia says it has recalled its ambassador to Sri Lanka following a similar move by the South Asian nation to protest the kingdom’s beheading of a Sri Lankan domestic worker last month.The two05
Mar
2013
Public execution in KSA(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has postponed the execution of seven men convicted of armed robbery committed when most of them were juveniles while the royal court looks into a request for a retrial, relatives and family friends said on Tuesday.The seven were sentenced to death in
Demonstrators protesting the death penalty given to an Islamic political party leader clashed with Bangladeshi security forces for a 3rd straight day on Saturday, killing 2 people and injuring about a dozen, the police said.Delawar Hossain Sayedee, one of the top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the
Chinese police officers leading aninmate into a special execution vanIt was reality television in the extreme.Chinese state television Friday broadcast nearly 1 hour of live images of the last moments of 4 foreign drug traffickers about to be executed for the 2011 killing of 13 Chinese28
Feb
2013
Taiwan says it will continue to enforce the death penalty, despite international appeals to end capital punishment on the island.Taiwan has executed 15 people since 2010, when it ended a 5-year informal moratorium on the death penalty. 6 people were put to death in the latest round of executions28
Feb
2013
Iran Human Rights, February 27: According to the official Iranian media five prisoners have been hanged in three different Iranian cities. All the prisoners are convicted of drug-related charges.Three prisoners hanged in the prison of Qazvin on February 24:The official website of the Iranian24
Feb
2013
The switch from sodium thiopenthal to pentobarbital in lethal injections is having larger consequences than state correction officials ever anticipated.It is hard to imagine that Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner Jay Chapman could have foreseen the storm now raging around the 3-drug lethal injection22
Feb
2013
A proposal to ban the death penalty in Montana is once again being rejected by a state House committee.The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee on Friday rejected the proposal to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The same proposal died in the same22
Feb
2013
Andrew CookAndrew Cook, 38, was put to death at 11:22 p.m by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson.He was pronounced dead 5 1/2 hours after his appeal was filed with the Supreme Court just before 6 p.m. The court denied his request for a stay just21
Feb
2013
Execution chamberat Tokyo Detention CenterJapan hanged three death-row inmates on Thursday, reports said, which, if confirmed, would be its first executions since a conservative government swept to power in landslide elections in December.Public broadcaster NHK and other Japanese media reported20
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2013
New Delhi: Hanging of four aides of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan has been further delayed with the Supreme Court on Wednesday extending its interim order staying the execution of death sentence imposed on them for killing 22 police personnel in a landmine blast in Karnataka in 1993.A bench headed19
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2013
Dr Vasant Yamakanmaradi, medical officer of the Central Prison, Hindalga (Belgaum), said the four convicts are both mentally and physically healthy. "We have been regularly conducting their health check-up to ensure they are fit to be executed," he said. "All convicts have been informed about their05
Mar
2013
"Dennis Williams, a former death-row inmate whose exoneration became a rallying cry for opponents of the death penalty in Illinois, died on Thursday at his home. He was 46. An autopsy has not yet been performed..." -- The New York Times: March 25, 2003To outsiders a decade ago this month, Dennis04
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2013
A fierce debate is raging in China over a state-run channel's decision to air the last hours of four foreign drug smugglers before their executions for killing 13 Chinese fishermen. But the outrage belies a simple reality in China: Executions here are frequent - and TV stations have treated them as01
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2013
ZIMBABWE Prison Services (ZPS) deputy commissioner Agrey Machingauta said there are no plans to carry out any executions in the country and the ZPS hopes all 77 death row inmates get a reprieve.Zimbabwe recently hired a hangman raising speculation that the country could be resuming executions, but28
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2013
Chinese police officers leading aninmate into a special execution van.The country's top prosecuting department has set up a new internal branch to supervise the reviews of death sentences that have been submitted to the top court for approval, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate26
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An Emirati woman who murdered her Ethiopian housemaid in Abu Dhabi is set to walk free after the maid’s relatives agreed to pardon the defendant in return for diya (blood money), a newspaper reported on Tuesday.A criminal court in the capital said it would issue a verdict on March 25 after the24
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On 22 February, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has once again asked for a universal abolition of death penalty.Ashton comments come a day after the execution of 3 Japanese prisoners, accused for extremely violent crimes. Sadakazu Tanigaki, the Japanese justice minister who ordered the22
Feb
2013
February 20, 2013: Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe's office said today that he signed legislation (SB 237) that rewrites the state's lethal injection law, despite his misgivings about the death penalty.The new law spells out in greater detail the procedures the state must follow in carrying out22
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2013
Carl Henry Blue(Reuters) - The state of Texas executed a man on Thursday for killing his former girlfriend in 1994 by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire.Carl Henry Blue, 48, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:56pm on Thursday night at The Walls Unit, in Huntsville20
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Iran Human Rights, February 20: One prisoner was hanged publicly in Arak (central Iran) today Wednesday February 20. According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Markazi Province the prisoner was a 23 year old man convicted of kidnapping and sexual abuse of a 15 year old boy. The20
Feb
2013
Georgia Execution ChamberCondemned killer Warren Lee Hill, whose mental retardation claims have attracted international attention, was spared execution Tuesday night with less than an hour to go before he was to be put to death.Hill had already been given a sedative to prepare for his lethal19
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2013
Iran Human Rights, February 19: Eight prisoners were hanged in Shiraz’s Adelabad Prison early this morning. According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in the province of Fars, eight prisoners, among them one woman, were hanged this morning. The prisoners were all convicted of