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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 drug-related charges, said the report.The prisoners were...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/02/iran-8-hanged-in-shirazs-adelabad-prison.html
The jail in Belgaum where four condemned aides of brigand Veerappan are lodged is still waiting for orders to go ahead with their execution. There had been a buzz that the convicts would be executed on Sunday morning, but that did not happen.Jail sources said the authorities are waiting for the17
Feb
2013
A low-key announcement that the state's prisons agency wants a law to protect pharmacies that might mix execution drugs underscores a high-profile problem: The state has enough of its current lethal drug to execute four inmates but has nine executions scheduled after that, including 1 announced
Taiwan's representative to France has accepted 106,000 signatures from French people urging Taiwan to retry a death-row convict and suspend executions as the 1st step toward abolition of the death penalty.Michel Lu accepted the signatures from Genevieve Garrigos, head of the French chapter of17
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2013
(MENAFN - Arab News) Indonesia has stepped up efforts to save the lives of five housemaids currently on death row in Saudi Arabia.The five cases are critical because the workers involved in these cases have exhausted all legal options following their convictions by Saudi courts on different14
Feb
2013
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire — which last executed an inmate more than 70 years ago, by hanging — would likely carry out an execution in a prison gymnasium rather than construct a costly death chamber for its lone death row prisoner, Corrections Commissioner William Wren said13
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The state of Georgia has rescheduled the execution of a mentally handicapped inmate for February 19. Warren Lee Hill Jr. was scheduled for execution last summer; however, the Georgia Department of Corrections changed the lethal injection process and delayed his execution.The same day that the
Dubai: Seventeen men owing allegiance to a bootlegging gang, who were spared the death penalty after being involved in the murder of a member of a rival gang, returned to their home country on Tuesday after a travel ban imposed on them by a Sharjah court was lifted a few days ago.The convicts, all13
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Iran Human Rights, February 12: Two prisoners were hanged in Arak (South of Tehran) and one prisoner is scheduled to be hanged publicly in Tehran tomorrow (Feb. 13), reported the Iranian state media.According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA two prisoners identified as "A. M." (29)12
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Officials in the Kremlin and in parliament have rejected the possibility of a return of the death penalty in Russian after Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said in an interview that he saw nothing wrong in it.Kolokoltsev commented on 2 recent murders of small girls and said that is someBarely 6 months after he moved into Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the two most talked about mercy petitions in recent times, resulting in the hanging of terror convicts in both cases.The rejection of mercy petitions filed by Mumbai terror convict Ajmal Amir Kasab and09
Feb
2013
NEW DELHI: Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged in Delhi's Tihar jail on Saturday morning.According to TV reports, home ministry has confirmed that Afzal Guru has been hanged.Earlier the reports said that his mercy plea had been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee. He was18
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2013
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of 4 individuals convicted of involvement in a $2.6 billion financial fraud case, the office of the national prosecutor general announced on Sunday.According to Iran's Supreme Court, the 4 convicts who have been sentenced to death have also been17
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2013
Gandhi’s country must set an example by abolishing capital punishment, says Justice V.R. Krishna IyerThe President has dismissed the mercy petitions of four of Veerappan’s associates who had been sentenced to death. They should not hang.I appeal to the authorities to remove the death sentence
Sudanese authorities must halt the execution of a Darfuri activist whose sentence was changed from 10 years' imprisonment to death, Amnesty International urged today amid fears he will be hanged this weekend.Bakri Moussa Mohammed, who has been involved in protests against the repression of15
Feb
2013
Advances in forensic science have made physical evidence increasingly crucial in criminal justice – but the practice of preserving and maintaining that evidence is often underfunded, poorly managed, or just plain sloppy.For more than a decade, lawyers for death row inmate Hank Skinner fought14
Feb
2013
Seventy-two hours before death row inmates are executed, they are placed under constant surveillance by prison guards. For nearly a decade, it was Bobby Allen's job to monitor these condemned men as they awaited their fate in the execution chamber. In 1981, Allen was only 22 years old13
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2013
South African Minister of Women and Child Lulu Xingwane has dismissed the possibility of reinstating the death sentence, describing it 'as against the democratic values of the country.'Despite an alarming rate of rape cases in the country for which some organisations have called for the death13
Feb
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Public execution by beheadingin a KSA parking lotShammari mediated a pardon for killer before he himself was beheadedA Saudi killer who was beheaded in the Gulf Kingdom last week after spending nearly 30 years in jail saved the life of a fellow inmate convicted of murdering another Saudi when he12
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Indiana Death ChamberProsecutors say the decision not to seek the death penalty against 3 suspects charged in last year's south side explosion involved many factors. I-Team 8 took an in-depth look at the decision-making process.Early Monday morning, Prosecutor Terry Curry filed formal requests to12
Feb
2013
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its nationals on Tuesday in the southwestern Aseer region after he was convicted of murdering a fellow citizen, the interior ministry announced.Mohammad Al Qah’tani shot dead Mueed Al Qah’tani during a fight between the two, the ministry said in a statementPublic execution in KSAA spree of executions that has sent 10 prisoners to their deaths since the beginning of the year in Saudi Arabia must be halted, Amnesty International said today.The beheadings included the death of Abdullah Fandi al-Shammari on 5 February 2013 who had originally been08
Feb
2013
Hood, Holland, the judge, O’Connell, the prosecutorCharles Dean Hood, the death row inmate who insisted he was innocent in the 1989 killings of a Plano man and his girlfriend, has pleaded guilty instead of facing a new sentencing trial. He was sentenced to life and cannot appeal. He will not18
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Public execution in ShirazIran Human Rights, February 17: Seven prisoners were hanged in the cities of Arak and Shiraz according to the official Iranian sources.Three prisoners hanged in Arak (Central Iran):According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA three prisoners were hanged in theBangladesh's parliament has amended a law allowing the state to appeal against the life sentence given to an opposition leader for his role in mass killings and rape during the 1971 war for independence.Tens of thousands of demonstrators in central Shahbag Square cheered as the assembly approved
Death Row in Japanese PrisonA desire to depict 1 man spending half a century in solitary confinement on death row is what spurred Junichi Saito, 45, to write his 1st movie script.Saito's upcoming film, which translates as "Promise, The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, the Life of a Death Row Inmate,"15
Feb
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Yemeni policemen prepare Yahia al-Raghwa,22, for his execution outside the centralprison in Sanaa on July 6, 2009.Yemeni authorities 'ignored pleas' to save prisoner from execution; Death sentences in Yemen are often passed after proceedings that fall short of fair trial13
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Pranab MukherjeeIndian presidentPresident's refusal to grant mercy sees biggest rise in use of death penalty in India for almost two decades.Pranab Mukherjee, India's president, has reportedly rejected the mercy petitions of four associates of a notorious forest brigand sentenced to death in aIn the shadow of the execution of Afzal Guru, hanged for his role in a 2001 terrorist attack on parliament, India's most high-profile death-row inmates await an uncertain fate.AG Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan - the latter 2 of whom use only 1 name - are lodged in a prison in Vellore, in the13
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Public hanging in TehranFebruary 13, 2013 Iran Human Rights, February 13: One prisoner was publicly hanged in Tehran today.According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars the man was convicted of murdering two girls in 2005.The public execution was carried out early this morning at12
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2013
An effort to abolish the death penalty in Florida finally got a hearing last week in a House committee after a three-year effort, but then quickly went down to defeat.The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted 9-4 against a bill (HB 4005) that would have statutorily abolished the death penalty11
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Randolph Arledge, right, embraces hisson, Chris Rodgers, center. CORSICANA, Texas — A 58-year-old Texas man walked free Monday after serving years for a crime he didn't commit — the repeated stabbing of a woman whose body was found on a dirt road in rural North Texas.Randolph Arledge was
Pharmaceutical makers have long promoted their products as a means to enhance or prolong life. Now some have been enmeshed in a transatlantic battle over whether their drugs can also be used to end it. Europe is escalating its war on the U.S. practice of executing inmates with prescription drugs07
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Executions in 2012, from Death Penalty Information Center's 2012 Year End Report. You can read the full text at deathpenaltyinfo.org/YearEnd2012...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/02/usa-executions-in-2012.html