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Court orders death penalty for 6 Coptic Egyptians, who reside abroad, over controversial anti-Islam film.The state security court issued a verdict on Wednesday sentencing 6 expatriate Coptic Egyptians to the death penalty for offending the Islamic faith, on charges related to producing the anti-Islamic film 'The Innocence of Muslims'.Bishop Marcus...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2012/11/egypt-6-expat-copts-receive-death.html29
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Government opinion polls on the death penalty consistently show overwhelming public support for the process, which is by hanging.Now, the neutrality of questions that have produced an 85.6 % support rate is being called into question.The government has carried out 9 opinion polls on the death27
Nov
2012
Public execution in KSANovember 26, 2012: Saudi Arabia beheaded three men convicted of separate murders across the kingdom, the interior ministry announced.Mubarak al-Harithi and Obaidallah al-Harithi, whose nationality was not given, were executed in Mecca province for having stabbed and shot26
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2012
Following Ajmal Amir Kasab's execution, the lone survivor of 26/11 attack, 2 terrorists facing death row and currently lodged in Tihar jail are believed to be very apprehensive of their future. According to Sunil Gupta, spokesperson of Tihar Jail, there was sense of uneasiness on Afzal's face after26
Nov
2012
Norway on Monday urged Indonesia to abolish the death penalty and welcomed indications that Jakarta is distancing itself from capital punishment."We encourage Indonesia to formally establish a moratorium with a view to abolishing the death penalty," said Gry Larsen, state secretary of Norway's
November 20, 2012: Masked gunmen publicly shot dead six suspected collaborators with Israel in a large Gaza City intersection, witnesses said. An Associated Press reporter saw a large mob surrounding five of the bloodied corpses shortly after the killing.Some in the crowd stomped and spat on the
A Christian girl accused of blasphemy over the burning of the Koran has been acquitted by a Pakistani court, her lawyer said.Rimsha Masih, 11, faced the death penalty after being arrested in Islamabad in August when her neighbour Mohammed Khalid Chishti, a Muslim cleric, accused her of desecrating20
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2012
SINGAPORE — The parliament of Singapore has approved legislation abolishing mandatory death sentences in some drug trafficking cases. The action came last Wednesday, according to a press release from the Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers.Under the reform, judges will be able to commute death19
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2012
Death House at San Quentin PrisonThis year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Robert Fairbank’s appeal of his death sentence for the 1985 rape and murder of college student Wendy Cheek.With that rejection, Fairbank joined at least 13 other death row inmates who have completed the decadeslong capital19
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2012
Abu Dhabi: Ten Asian youths are facing execution for intentional manslaughter after a gambling and drinking session turned into a bid for revenge, the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance revealed in a statement.Five male labourers of Asian nationalities, sat with five others of a different16
Nov
2012
Preston HughesAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas executed on Thursday a convicted murderer who stabbed a teenager and her toddler cousin to death in an empty field near his Houston apartment complex and who has spent half of his life on Death Row.Hughes, 46, was convicted of stabbing to death14
Nov
2012
Iran Human Rights, November 14: Three prisoners were hanged publicly in Arak (central Iran) this morning, reported the Iranian state media today.According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Markazi Province three prisoners identified as Behzad (27), Mehdi (37) and Meysam (25) were28
Nov
2012
Nine forensic experts say Swearingen is on death row for a murder he couldn’t have committed, yet Texas courts won’t grant a new trial.The state’s evidence against 41-year-old Swearingen was compelling. Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen him with Melissa Trotter on the day she went missing27
Nov
2012
Last prisoner executed under Republican Robert Ehrlich as technicalities and inaction thus far keeps law at arms length.Martin O’Malley, the newly re-elected Governor of Maryland, will try once more to have the death penalty repealed in his state this coming January.O’Malley, a Democrat, tipped
Sri Lanka is planning to introduce death penalty to child abusers and rapists, an official said on Friday.The minister in charge of the Child Development and Women's affairs has proposed to the parliament to impose death sentence or life imprisonment to offenders who are convicted of child abuse22
Nov
2012
After a 4-year unofficial moratorium, Pakistan has reverted to the odious practice of sending people to the gallows. Instead, the government should declare an official moratorium, commute all existing death sentences, and then abolish the death penalty for all crimes once and for all.The Pakistani
Kabul: Afghanistan on Wednesday executed six "criminals and terrorists", an official said, a day after eight other death row prisoners were hanged in a rare mass executions in the war-wracked country.The Taliban, which is leading an insurgency against the Western-backed government, had warned20
Nov
2012
Afghanistan executed eight prisoners on death row Tuesday with more executions expected soon, officials said, marking a rare use of the death penalty in the war-wracked country.The eight had been convicted of crimes including murder, kidnapping and rape, deputy attorney general Rahmatullah Nazari
Riyadh: A Palestinian was beheaded in Saudi Arabia on Monday after being convicted of forming a gang to carry out robberies in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.Mohammad Al Khalili “formed a gang with others that carries out thefts, burglaries, and robbery against homes,” said the statement19
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According to a new report launched today Pakistan saw a threefold increase in death sentences handed down for drug offences between 2009 and 2011. The report's findings will raise concern for British national Khadija Shah who is currently facing the death penalty in Pakistan where she is imprisonedRiyadh: Saudi Arabia on Saturday beheaded a Bangladeshi convicted of murdering a Syrian man by bludgeoning him with a hammer before stabbing him, the interior ministry said.Madhaheb Shanadra had been found guilty of beating Nabeel Al Awdat on his “head with a hammer before stabbing and15
Nov
2012
(Reuters) - Pakistan executed its first prisoner in four years on Thursday, hanging a convicted murderer who was a former army serviceman, police said.Despite the execution of Muhammad Hussain in northwest Pakistan, activists do not expect the country's moratorium on the death penalty to be lifted
DNA testing that death row inmate Hank Skinner sought for more than a decade further implicates him in the New Year’s Eve 1993 triple murder for which he was sentenced to die, according to an advisory that the Texas Attorney General’s Office filed Wednesday in Gray County state district court. But27
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2012
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded two nationals for murder, including one who stabbed his wife to death and burned her corpse, the interior ministry said.Ali Mohammad Mahrazi was convicted of stabbing his wife Hunayna Khabrani repeatedly before he27
Nov
2012
Following the recent execution of Ajmal Kasab, there is fear that Indian authorities may similarly execute other prisoners with petitions for mercy currently pending. On 21 November, the Indian government executed Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab, convicted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai26
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Pune : The Yerawada Central Jail, where Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted for 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was hanged last week, has over two dozen death row convicts awaiting execution, an official said Monday - the fourth anniversary of the carnage."Their execution papers are still in22
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2012
Dubai: Two prisoners at Dubai Central Jail who are on death row for a murder they committed in 2001 are to be deported after being pardoned by relatives of their victim.Serji Alexander Doboni from Russia who was 21 at the time of the crime and Sefiri Andre, an Ukrainian, will be freed after the
Mumbai: Nearly a week ahead of the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 attack, Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Kasab — who had been convicted and handed capital punishment for his involvement in the Mumbai mayhem — was hanged to death in Pune’s Yerawada central prison on Wednesday morning, in a20
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2012
The 21-year sentence issued for mass murderer Anders Breivik is a proof of the functionality of the Norwegian legal system and should not be considered “naivety,” Norwegian Ambassador to Turkey Janis Bjorn Kanavin has told the Hürriyet Daily News. His remarks were an indirect response to TurkishUnited Nations: India was among the 39 countries that voted against a UN General Assembly draft resolution which called for abolishing the death penalty, saying every nation had the "sovereign right" to determine its own legal system. The non-binding resolution called for a moratorium on executionsAccording to Al Youm Al Sabea newspaper, the man along with his wife lured a businessman into their home in 2009 on the pretext of sexually entertaining him and made away with his car and other valuables before killing him.It is alleged that the husband was the master brain behind the murder17
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Public hanging in DarabIran Human Rights, November 17: According to the reports from the Iranian state media two prisoners were hanged publicly the Iranian town of Darab (southern Iran) yesterday November 16.According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Fars Province two prisoners15
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Ramon HernandezHUNTSVILLE — A man who prosecutors have called a serial rapist and murderer was executed tonight by lethal injection.Ramon Hernandez had no last-minute appeals and a commutation request was denied.The U.S. Supreme Court refused last month to review Hernandez's death sentence and aSINGAPORE on Wednesday rejected calls to abolish executions, saying the death penalty is still necessary to deter serious crimes despite legal reforms designed to lessen its use.Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who is also minister for home affairs, said abolishing hanging would send the wrong