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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 16, 2023: Two unidentified men including a Baluch minority, were executed along with Zarkhatoun Mazarzehi in Kerman Central Prison.According to Haal Vsh, two men including a Baluch minority were executed in Kerman Central Prison on 15 November. The unidentified men were sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court.Zarkhatoun Mazarzehi
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ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection.Casey McWhorter, 49, was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. at a southwest Alabama prison, authorities said. McWhorter was convicted of capital murder
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Nov
2023
Israel will likely be victorious in its war of self-defense against the Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the Oct. 7 massacre. But the expected victory will not truly resolve the situation.There will have to be further medical and psychological support for the displaced and resilient but
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Malaysia's top court on Tuesday commuted the death sentences and natural-life prison terms of 11 people convicted of drug trafficking, including two Thai nationals, following capital punishment reforms passed earlier this year, state news agency Bernama
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On November 8, 2023, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey scheduled an execution date for Kenneth Smith, marking the first attempt by a U.S. state to use nitrogen gas in an execution. Mr. Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire death of Elizabeth Sennett in Jefferson County, Alabama and has been on
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Nov
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 9, 2023: State media have reported the execution of a man only identified as Akbar for murder in Tabriz Central Prison.According to Rokna, a man was executed in Tabriz Central Prison in the last week. The man only named as Akbar was sentenced to qisas
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Nov
2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board narrowly voted Wednesday to recommend sparing the life of a man set to be executed later this month for what he claims were the self-defense killings of two men in Oklahoma City in 2001.The board voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Phillip
A bill to repeal the death penalty in Pennsylvania has passed a committee in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 in favor of HB 999 on October 31, 2023. That vote is the first step toward abolishing the death penalty in Pennsylvania
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Nov
2023
MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The State of Alabama says it will be seeking the death penalty against a man facing multiple capital murder charges for a 2020 shooting in Danville.Carson Peters was indicted in August 2021 on four counts of capital murder and one count of first-degree assault in
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Nov
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KUALA LUMPUR: The first case to review a sentence after abolishing the mandatory death penalty and life imprisonment will be heard in the Apex court on Nov 14.Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Ramkarpal Singh said the case under the Revision of
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Nov
2023
New information is coming to light in the case of a Dothan woman accused of putting her baby in a trash compactor in the heat of August.Jakayla Williams, 18, is charged with one count of Capital Murder. Police arrested Williams in late August after investigators said she threw her newborn baby in
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Nov
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 3, 2023: Shamsollah Banani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ahar Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ahar Prison on 29 October. His identity has been established as
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Nov
2023
David Renteria, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:11 p.m. CST following an injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the killing of Alexandra Flores. Renteria prayed, sang and asked for forgiveness before his execution.“I’m sorry for all the wrongs I have done. And for those who have
Iran's Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence of a protester convicted over the killing of a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during nationwide protests last year, a prosecutor says. The prosecutor in the central city of Hamadan did not disclose the defendant's name
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Nov
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 13, 2023: Amin Barakzehi, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Saravan Prison.According to Haal Vsh, a man was executed in Saravan Prison on 11 November. His identity has been reported as 40-year-old Amin Barakzehi
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Nov
2023
David Renteria's claim that he kidnapped 5-year-old Alexandra Flores under duress never made it to trial, according to court recordsThe state of Texas is set to execute a man later this week who in 2001 kidnapped a five-year-old girl from an El Paso Walmart before brutally murdering her, leaving
The former president of China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited was given a suspended death by a court in Shandong province on Friday for accepting bribes of about 1 billion yuan ($137 million).The Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, capital of Shandong province, announced the death penalty with a
Saving souls, destroying bodiesSince late 2021, Texas has been working to rehabilitate death row inmates through a new project known as the Faith-Based Program.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice writes that the Faith-Based Program “is based on the belief that individuals, no matter their
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Nov
2023
Louisiana law allows a person in prison to file a petition to challenge their conviction or sentence on the basis of claims like innocence, police or prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel. State law also requires that a panel of three state appellate judges must review
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 6, 2023: Ghasem Abasteh, a Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner sentenced to death without due process or a fair trial for charges of moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through “armed resistance and membership in a Salafi jihadi
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 3, 2023: Seven prisoners, most of whom were on death row for murder, were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison on 1st November. IHRNGO previously reported the execution of two other men including an Afghan national at the prison that day. With two months still
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Nov
2023
Pennsylvania nurse is accused of killing 4 patients, injuring others with high doses of insulinA registered nurse in Pennsylvania faces charges she administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients — including a 104-year-old — at health care facilities over the past
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Nov
2023
When I served on Brent Brewer’s jury in 2009, I believed in doing my civic duty to decide the case impartially. After I heard all the evidence, I was convinced that Brent did not act with premeditation and did not intend to kill the victim. It seemed to me that he was trying to steal a truck and
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Nov
2023
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin pardoned the convicted killer of famed Russian opposition journalist Anna Politkovskaya after his military service in Ukraine, Russian state-controlled media RBC reported on Nov. 14.Former Russian police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was convicted of his role in
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Nov
2023
The U.S. Army on Monday set aside the court-martial convictions from a century ago of 110 African American soldiers, including 19 who were executed, saying they were denied fair trials in a landmark acknowledgement of official racism in America.The Army Board for Correction of Military Records
BEIJING, Nov 13 – A former principal of a primary school in Gansu province was executed through lethal injection on Nov 7, following a death penalty sentence for rape and sexually molesting minors.Jiupai News, a Hubei province-based news portal, reported on Sunday that Zhang Longji, the former
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Nov
2023
The communist country has some of the toughest drug laws in the world, and is notoriously secretive about its executions.South Korean ex-police officer Kim Soon-sik, 63, and compatriot Kang Seon-hok, 30, were sentenced to death following a four-day trial in Ho Chin Minh City, state media said
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2023
Texas man executed after more than 30 years on death rowA Texas man who spent more than 30 years on death row for a murder he committed during a robbery when he was 19 has been executed.Brent Brewer, 53, was put to death yesterday evening by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the
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Nov
2023
The 31-year-old convict killed a 46-year-old woman and her three-year-old neighbour on April 14, 2017.A sessions court in Mumbai Tuesday sentenced a 31-year-old man to death for setting ablaze two people — a woman and a child — in Bandra in 2017.Deepak Jath was found guilty of charges under
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Nov
2023
Amnesty International has urged Iranian authorities to immediately quash the conviction and death sentence against Reza Razaei, a man accused of involvement in the killing of a security agent during nationwide protests last year.“If charged with a recognizable criminal offence, proceedings must
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Nov
2023
A ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court moved the state closer to executing an inmate in a way no state has ever done.Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia method, five years in the making, would use a gas mask to cause death. It is an alternative to the state’s standard method, lethal
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the first time since Gallup started asking about the fairness of the death penalty's application in the U.S. -- a trend that dates back to 2000 -- more Americans say it is applied unfairly (50%) than fairly (47%). This represents a five-point increase in the percentage who
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 2, 2023: Branch 5 of the Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Leila Kholghi Sakachayi and Abolfazl Barat Vakili to hanging for adultery charges. Branch 12 of the Tehran Criminal Court has also sentenced another woman, Mitra to death for the same charges and the
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Nov
2023
A Madison County jury on Friday sentenced to death a man who admitted to shooting and killing an on-duty Huntsville police officer. Billy Clardy III was 48 years old when LaJeromeny Brown shot him three times on Dec. 6, 2019, during an undercover drug operation in north Huntsville.“I know, in so