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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 charges and identities of the prisoners.Source:...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/02/three-hanged-in-kermanshah-iran.html22
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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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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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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 their18
Feb
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
Feb
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
Feb
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
2013
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 he22
Feb
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
Feb
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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
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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
Feb
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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 of18
Feb
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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 the
Bangladesh'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
2013
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
Feb
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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
Feb
2013
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 atThe 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
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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
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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 twoThe 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
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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
Feb
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(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
Feb
2013
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)