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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 was accused of driving the bus during the December...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/03/jail-death-of-delhi-rape-suspect-sparks.html11
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2013
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
Mar
2013
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
Mar
2013
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 on05
Mar
2013
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
Mar
2013
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
Feb
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,"
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
Mar
2013
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 International06
Mar
2013
TALLAHASSEE -- With more than 400 people on Florida's Death Row, a House subcommittee Tuesday approved a proposed constitutional amendment that is part of a plan to try to reduce delays in carrying out the death penalty.The proposed constitutional amendment would shift power from the courts system05
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
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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 same10
Mar
2013
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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2013
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
Mar
2013
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 down05
Mar
2013
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 juvenile05
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
Feb
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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2013
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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2013
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 out