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Apr
2024
The Constitutional Court announced that it is to hear a case on the constitutionality of the death penalty and has scheduled oral arguments on April 23, attracting widespread attention.However, instead of delving into the core debate of whether the death penalty contravenes the Constitution, legislators across party lines and the media have been preoccupied by arguing whether the grand justices
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11
Apr
2024
Simpson died after a battle with cancer, his family said.O.J. Simpson, the former football great who was accused of and ultimately acquitted of the brutal 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, has died, according to his family. He was 76."On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson
10
Apr
2024
Brian Dorsey is a “rare case where those of us who sit in judgment of a man convicted of capital murder got it wrong,” according to a former judge who upheld his death sentence.Brian Dorsey's appointed trial lawyers were paid a flat fee of $12,000 to represent him. Against the advice of another
09
Apr
2024
The Last Week Tonight host looks into new ‘grim’ developments on the death penalty in the US, and identifies a secret supplier of lethal injectionsFor the third time in Last Week Tonight’s 11 seasons, dating back to the second-ever episode, John Oliver looked at the death penalty in the US on
In 2021, China lowered its age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12 for "special cases" such as inflicting death by "extremely cruel means".China will put three minors on trial for allegedly murdering another child, a provincial prosecutor said Monday, in a case that has shocked the nation
06
Apr
2024
SAN JOSE – Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced on Friday that he has ordered the county's 15 inmates on California's death row to be resentenced to life without parole (LWOP).In a statement, Rosen said he is using a state law that allows district attorneys to resentence
04
Apr
2024
A man convicted of killing 2 people in Oklahoma more than 2 decades ago was executed Thursday, marking the state's 1st execution of the year. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., the
Oklahoma is set to carry out the state's first execution of 2024 and the 12th since capital punishment resumed in 2021.Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith faces execution by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for two 2002 murders. The execution is
03
Apr
2024
The Federal Court orders a former labourer to serve 33 years in prison and in a separate case, a former cook is given a 31-year jail sentence.PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today commuted the death sentence of a father-of-five to 33 years in prison for murdering his ex-wife in a house in Segamat
02
Apr
2024
Judge rejects defence that drug was for research. Seet Poh Jing argued that the cannabis in his possession was for research, as he was considering business ventures, including a cafe selling cannabis, in Singapore.SINGAPORE: A former property agent was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for
01
Apr
2024
Russia could allow a trial of the Crocus City Hall terrorist suspects to take place in neighbouring Belarus so they can face the death penalty.Talks are already underway between the ‘competent authorities’ of the two countries, according to Putin-loyalist MP Maria Butina.Belarus is the only
29
Mar
2024
Iran handed prison sentences to 11 activists defending women’s rights and has executed 98 people this year.An Iranian court this week sentenced 11 women's rights advocates to prison terms totaling 60 years, as authorities in the Islamic Republic continue their crackdown against any type of
A Vietnamese real estate mogul has been handed the death penalty for her role in the biggest fraud case in the country's history.Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death on Thursday as punishment for her role in a 304 trillion dong ($12.46 billion) financial fraud case
Prison authorities of the Islamic Republic have executed another young man amid a significant rise in the use of the death penalty.The inmate convicted of murder was executed at Khorramabad Prison on April 5, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization.The inmate, identified as
Article 286 of the Criminal Code should be amended to impose the death penalty or life imprisonment on those guilty of child abuse leading to death, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus has proposed.Under the current law, “a person who maltreats a minor under the age of 18, or impairs the
07
Apr
2024
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life.Brian Dorsey, 52, is scheduled for execution
06
Apr
2024
The Cameron County District Attorney’s Office and appellate attorneys for Death Row inmate Melissa Lucio agree that favorable evidence was “withheld” from the defense during her 2008 trial. She was convicted in July 2008 of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez, and was sentenced
TOKYO - A Japanese high court judge was impeached Wednesday for posting on social media in 2017 messages that were found offensive to the bereaved family of a high school girl murdered two years earlier, marking the first time a judge has been dismissed over the expression of views.The Judge
Iran’s prisons have been “transformed into sites of mass killings”, with the number of executions hitting an eight-year high in 2023, according to a new report by Amnesty International.Some 853 people were executed last year – including five boys under 18 – nearly double the number of total
03
Apr
2024
Uganda’s constitutional court on Wednesday upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into law in May last year. The law is supported by many in the East African country but widely condemned by rights
02
Apr
2024
A Sri Lankan minister said his government would consider hiring hangwomen for executioner posts for the first time in its history, if the order to execute was given by the president.State Minister of Justice and Prison Affairs Anuradha Jayaratne told reporters that he does not see any reason why
01
Apr
2024
The Madeiran detained in Indonesia is the son of Rui Óscar, a former Marítimo footballer, who also represented FC Porto and Boavista.SIC Notícias recently reported that the young man, Rui Viana, was also known for his football talent, having played for the youth teams of Marítimo and Câmara de
29
Mar
2024
Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in the state’s first execution in over four years last week. Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. March 20 at the state prison in Jackson after being convicted for a 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of his former girlfriend.But despite the
10
Apr
2024
Missouri executed four people in 2023. Amber McLaughlin, Michael Tisius, Johnny Johnson and Leonard Taylor, who maintained that he was innocent, all died by lethal injection. The state is one of five in the country that carried out executions last year.Once public spectacles, state-sponsored
09
Apr
2024
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday denied clemency for Brian Dorsey one day before the inmate's scheduled execution for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago.The governor's decision is "devastating," said Megan Crane, Dorsey's attorney, in an email. The clemency
08
Apr
2024
Karen Conti was a fledgling lawyer in the early 1990s when she was asked to defend John Wayne Gacy, but she wanted "to look evil in the eye," so she took the case.As a fierce opponent of the death penalty, Conti became the only female lawyer on his death row defense team, which led to hours of
06
Apr
2024
Across the country, few people have been on death row longer than Karu Gene White. White was 20 years old when he was convicted of taking part in the brutal murders of three elderly Breathitt County shopkeepers in February 1979. The following year, he was sentenced to death by execution. Today
05
Apr
2024
A convicted killer on death row in Alabama told NBC News he no longer wants to delay justice for the families of the five people he murdered eight years ago and is ready to pay the ultimate price for his crimes.In his first-ever interview with a reporter, Derrick Dearman said he mailed nine
04
Apr
2024
The Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Shahriar Bayat, a 64-year-old political prisoner, to death on charges of allegedly "insulting the prophet of Islam."Bayat's family confirmed the March 24 verdict when he was on the final day of his furlough from Evin prison, according to the HRANA human
03
Apr
2024
The drugs sold included cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine.BATON ROUGE, La. — Thirteen people convicted in a large-scale drug trafficking network based at Louisiana's maximum-security prison have been sentenced to a range of time spanning four to 16 years, federal prosecutors said.In
03
Apr
2024
Some death penalty lawyers get paid the same no matter how long they work on a case. Critics say it’s a perverse incentive when a life is at stake.Brian Dorsey’s argument for why he should not be executed by the state of Missouri requires the kind of math familiar to any gig worker.After Dorsey
01
Apr
2024
The Madeiran detained in Indonesia is the son of Rui Óscar, a former Marítimo footballer, who also represented FC Porto and Boavista.SIC Notícias recently reported that the young man, Rui Viana, was also known for his football talent, having played for the youth teams of Marítimo and Câmara de
On a beach in the Somali capital, Mogadishu stand six tall concrete posts planted in the pure white sand. The waves of the bright blue Indian Ocean break gently nearby - and often bear witness to some grim events.Every so often the security forces bring men to this place, tie them to the posts
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Mar
2024
The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court for the 2nd time to take up a Texas death penalty case in which defendant Areli Escobar was convicted on DNA evidence and testimony from a police laboratory that was later deemed unreliable by