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Kaohsiung, May 7 (CNA) A Kaohsiung man's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment Tuesday by the Kaohsiung Branch of the Taiwan High Court, after his case was retried for the fourth time.According to the court's verdict Tuesday, the man surnamed Liu (劉) was accused of robbing and killing a woman near Haluo market in Kaohsiung's Zuoying District on Dec. 3 2014.According
Leggi Tutto
In the early 1970s I was a North Carolinian, white boy from the South attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and working in East Harlem as part of a program.In my senior year, I visited men at the Bronx House of Detention. I had never been in a prison or jail, but people in East
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Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner held in Isfahan's Dastgerd Prison, has been sentenced to death for "corruption on Earth," a charge often used against dissidents.On Saturday, his lawyer, Babak Farsani, reported that the court refused to provide a written verdict. Lawyers only
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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method.Justices granted Attorney General Steve Marshall’s request for an execution date for Alan Eugene
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Deranged nurse escapes the death penalty as she admits to killing three patients - and has been connected to 14 more - by injecting them with lethal amounts on insulinA Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients avoided the death penalty
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 1, 2024: Mehdi Eshterak, Mohammad Shehbakhsh, Mahmoud Gorgij and an unidentified woman, all Baluch minorities on death row for drug-related charges, were executed in Birjand Central Prison.According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, four Baluch people were executed
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); April 30, 2024: Mousa Fazeli, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed Qom Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Qom Central Prison on 30 April. His identity has been established as
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PUTRAJAYA: A former construction company manager who murdered his Indonesian girlfriend by stabbing her 28 times six years ago was spared the death sentence by the Court of Appeal today.A three-judge panel chaired by Justice Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, in a unanimous decision, substituted the
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On April 18, 2024, the Arkansas Supreme Court decided 4-3 to reverse a 2022 lower court decision and allow genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the 1993 killing of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three men convicted in 1994 for the killings were released in 2011 after
Iraq has passed a sweeping anti-LGBT law that criminalises same-sex relationships and could see gay people sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convictedThe law, which was passed by Iraq’s parliament on Saturday, purports to “protect Iraqi society from moral depravity and the calls for
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Four people including a woman and a possible juvenile offender were executed for murder charges in Karaj.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj on 24 April. His identity has been established as Pejman Azizi who was sentenced to
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Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has condemned the death sentence of protest rapper Toomaj Salehi."Toomaj's death sentence signifies the death of our vibrant movement. Let us rally for the survival of the movement that defines our existence," she said in a message from
A knife attack at a hospital in southwestern China has killed two people and injured 21 others. No motive was given for Tuesday's attack at Zhenxiong County People’s Hospital in Yunnan province. Authorities said the suspect is a male from the same county.BEIJING — A knife attack at a hospital in
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 4, 2024: Sohrab Rafieian and Morteza Azimi, two co-defendants on death row for drug-related charges, was executed in Zanjan Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Zanjan Central Prison on 28 April. Their
Based on the registered statistics at the Center for Statistics and Documentation of Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM), and through extensive research conducted in this field, the final figures of executions in April 2024 have been obtained. It should be emphasized that the actual numbers are
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The man charged with murdering his three small sons should be excluded from the death penalty if convicted “due to serious mental illness at the time of (the) offense,” his lawyers contend in a new motion.CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio — Attorneys for Chad Doerman, the man accused of shooting and killing
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 1, 2024: Ten men including an Afghan national, were executed in Isfahan Central Prison over two days. Seven were on death row for drug-related offences and three were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder.According to information obtained by Iran
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On the morning of Tuesday, April 30, 2024, four prisoners, including a woman, were executed in Birjand prison. The identity of the executed woman has not been determined.The other three prisoners were Mahmoud Gergij, Mohammad Shah Bakhsh and Mehdi Eshterak, from Sistan and Baluchistan
An Iranian billionaire convicted of stealing nearly three billion dollars has had his death sentence commuted to a 20-year jail term.Babak Zanjani was convicted in 2016 of pocketing money from the oil ministry to circumvent US sanctions on Iran.He said he had been unable to hand over the cash
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Authorities of the Islamic Republic executed four more prisoners over the weekend as death penalties continue to rise in the country.The Iran Human Rights Organization reported that three inmates were executed on April 27 in Tabriz Prison for drug-related offenses.The inmates were identified as
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According to the Iranian state-media reports, at dawn on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, a young woman named Shahnaz was hanged in Qezel-Hesar prison in Karaj.Shahnaz had been held in prison for three years. She is the fifth woman hanged in Iran in 2024.According to the information compiled by the
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); April 26, 2024: Sources close to Reza Rasayi’s family have warned of the protester’s execution being carried out in the next few days. There has been a drastic rise in the number of executions in the past week, with at least 23 people executed in the last five days
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For the first time in at least five years, Supreme Court justices last week issued dissents from the Court’s denial of review in two capital cases on the same day. Both cases involved official misconduct. One alleged that Texas prosecutors illegally struck 13 women from Dillion Compton’s
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 6, 2024: Ali Asghar Falah, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed Qom Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Qom Central Prison on 5 May. His identity has been established as
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A jury of 12 Johnson County residents voted Thursday to send 31-year-old Jerry Elders to death row for the murder of Robin Waddell, agreeing with prosecutors who requested the death penalty.The defense argued for life in prison without parole, saying Thursday morning that Elders’ actions came
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 2, 2024: Ali Ashraf Khani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed Kermanshah Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison on 1st May. His identity has been
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); May 1, 2024: Saeed Imani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed Khorramabad Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Khorramabad Central Prison on 30 April. His identity has been
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SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah requested on Tuesday that a man who’s been on death row for almost 25 years be executed.Taberon Honie was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s mother in 1999. In the death warrant application, the state’s lawyers said Honie used up his appeals and
Aware that only the use of terror and force keeps it in power, the Cuban regime makes it clear that if necessary, it will not hesitate to kill.HAVANA TIMES – Inflation, misery, the lack of medicine, and power outages, which were the triggers for previous demonstrations, are worsening daily in
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MENA Rights Group joins 30 organizations in expressing grave concerns regarding the death sentence and imminent executions of young men in Saudi Arabia for acts they committed as minors.The undersigned organizations express their grave concern for the lives of minor defendants particularly the
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Today is the 9th anniversary of the deaths of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran,executed by firing squad in Indonesia, alongside 6 other people.We remember them, along with every person who has died at the hands of a retributive state,and the families and friends left mourning them.May they rest
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); April 26, 2024: Javad Asgari, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Arak Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Arak Central Prison on 24 April. His identity has been established
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A group of high profile political prisoners in Iran have denounced the death sentence handed down to dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi, calling it a sign of Iran's "inhuman nature and deep corruption."Earlier this week, an Iranian revolutionary court sentenced the outspoken artist to death for his
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); April 24, 2024: State media reported the execution of Hadi Mirgozar for murder charges at an unspecified prison.According to Haft Sobh newspaper, a man was executed on 10 April. He was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of a woman named Elham