As part of an innovative prison reform program, the Oregon State Penitentiary created a healing garden on its grounds to provide some respite from the concrete and resemble the outside world. One incarcerated man who had spent most of the past two decades in solitary confinement described going to the garden as, “the first time I walked on grass in 20 years.
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An Indonesian court on Friday handed death sentences to eight Iranian drug traffickers found guilty of smuggling more than 300 kilograms of crystal meth into the Southeast Asian country.Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws but has held off conducting executions for several
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Robert Card is the person of interest police are looking for following Wednesday night's mass shootings in a bowling alley and nearby barPolice continue to hunt Thursday morning for the man who allegedly killed at least 18 people last night in multiple shootings in Maine.Robert Card, the person
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Eight former Indian Navy personnel were on Thursday handed down death sentence by a court in Qatar, a verdict that was described as “deeply” shocking by India as it vowed to explore all legal options in the case.The Indian nationals, who worked with private security company Al Dahra, were
Koh Samui, Thailand, Oct 26 (EFE).- A court on the Thai island of Koh Samui on Thursday postponed the hearing of murder-accused Spaniard Daniel Sancho until next month.Sancho, 29, has been charged in the case of the murder and dismemberment of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta on the neighboring
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The case of prison convert Will Speer shows the significance of ‘peers’ leading ministry behind bars.The first death row prisoner to help lead a death row ministry in Texas’s Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a state prison with maximum security units, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, October 26
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 20, 2023: Mohammad Ali Vahidi, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Gonbad Kavous Prison.According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Gonbad Kavous Prison, in Golestan province on 19 October. His identity has
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The Death Penalty Information Center has updated its Death Penalty Census, a database of every death sentence imposed since 1972. The database now contains information accurate as of January 1, 2022, inclusive of the 50th year of the modern death penalty. The Census contains information on 9,820
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A wealthy father who tortured and starved his three-year-old son to death and made his short life 'pure hell' will be executed with a bullet to the head in Belarus.Alexander Taratuta, 48, has been sentenced to death for the brutal torture and murder of his son Semyon. He will be shot in the back
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An execution date for an Alabama man convicted of a shooting three decades ago is set for next month.Casey A. McWhorter is set to die for the 1993 shooting death of Edward Lee Williams in Marshall County. He has been on Alabama Death Row since 1994, after a jury voted 10-2 for him to be
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 17, 2023: Sajad Moradi and Yaser Golzardian, two men sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Khorramabad Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Khorramabad Central Prison on 17
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Oct 17 (Reuters) - The South Carolina court of appeals on Tuesday ruled that Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, a lawyer found guilty of murdering his wife and son, can ask a lower court judge to toss out his conviction due to allegations of jury tampering. Lawyers for Murdaugh, who has maintained his
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The 87-year-old defendant was deemed unfit to appear in court due to communication difficulties engendered by his long detention. His trial must not be prolonged.The Shizuoka District Court has begun the retrial of Iwao Hakamata, whose death sentence was previously finalized over the 1966 murder
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SALT LAKE CITY — A judge will decide whether a group of inmates can proceed with a lawsuit challenging Utah's death penalty.Five death row inmates — Ralph Menzies, Troy Kell, Michael Archuleta, Douglas Carter and Taberon Honie — are suing the state, challenging the methods and protocols
NEW DELHI, Oct 26, (Agencies): A Qatar court has delivered the death penalty to eight Indian nationals who were detained in the country last year, as confirmed by the Indian government in a statement issued on Thursday. The announcement of this verdict has left the Indian authorities deeply
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The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood said his work as a spiritual advisor for death row inmates is more than getting them saved “wrap it up in a bow and send them to heaven.”“My work has never been like that,” Hood said. “I’ve always felt like there is a deep connection between the soul and the body and that
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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 25, (Agencies): The Criminal Court decided to adjourn the case of an Islamic education teacher accused of assaulting six children in the areas of Khitan and Farwaniya. The accused has previously faced the death penalty in another case, during which he uttered the phrase, “I am a
Texas offers religious education to the condemned but rarely values spiritual growth when considering clemency requests.Every day at 6 a.m., Will Speer’s testimony is broadcast across the airwaves on the Polunsky Unit’s radio station. He talks to his fellow prisoners about redemption, salvation
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When the supply of drugs used for lethal injections began to run out, a couple of prison guards in the US had to go out and find another source.For over 20 years, Randy Workman was the man who walked people to their death.As a senior corrections officer in the state of Oklahoma, he personally
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The Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Arman Khachatryan, in the presence of Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić, has deposited the ratification instrument, thereby completing the process of ratification by Armenia of Protocol No. 13 to the European
After the swift verdict for the murderer of Delmar Police Corporal Keith Heacook, there is renewed debate on capital punishment in the first state. Some are now suggesting a reconsideration of the death penalty for specific crimes.State Representative Tim Dukes, a Republican who represents Delmar
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Idaho death row inmate Thomas Creech’s scheduled execution next month was delayed Wednesday after the state’s parole board granted him a clemency hearing to consider dropping his death sentence to life in prison. An Ada County judge last week signed a death warrant for Creech, a convicted
Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council urged China not to forcibly repatriate people who have escaped from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), warning that some returnees could even be put to death. The experts were alarmed that hundreds of escapees – the vast majority of
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Armita Geravand’s death comes after her being in a coma for weeks and threatens to reignite popular anger, protests over Iran’s mandatory headscarf law for womenDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not
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Speer has been on death row for decades after strangling another inmate at a Texas prison. The victim’s sister and faith leaders have both called on the parole board to halt the execution.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of William Speer on Thursday, just hours before he
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A Columbus man who has been on death row since his 2020 conviction on two murder charges will now serve life in prison under a 2021 Ohio law forbidding the execution of people who were severely mentally ill at the time of their offense.Michael R. Turner, 64, was sentenced to death for the June
Le Van Manh was executed last month despite protesting his innocence.The family of a man executed in Vietnam in spite of his claims of innocence told Radio Free Asia this week they would continue to fight to clear his name, honoring a request in his final letter to them.Le Van Manh, 41, was
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On Monday, October 23, the Algiers Court of Appeal sentenced thirty-eight people to the death penalty for the lynching to death of a man wrongly mistaken for an arsonist after helping to put out deadly fires during the summer 2021, according to the official Algérie Presse Service (APS)
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The apex court observed that the trial was conducted in a "hurried manner"The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of a man who was awarded the death sentence for the alleged rape and murder of a three-month-old infant girl and has ordered a retrial in the case, noting that the accused was
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They were the youngest of the 134 suspected drug offenders arrested in an island-wide anti-drug operation.Two teenage boys, both 14 years old, were arrested for suspected drug offences in Yishun on Oct. 8, 2023, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in an Oct. 21, 2023, news release.The two
LIVINGSTON—If Texas Death Row inmate William Keith Speer is executed as scheduled Oct. 26, two men whose lives have been transformed by God will be present—one on the death chamber gurney and one in the adjacent viewing area.Speer is a convicted two-time killer who committed his life to Christ
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Idaho death row inmate Thomas Creech’s scheduled execution next month was delayed Wednesday after the state’s parole board granted him a clemency hearing to consider dropping his death sentence to life in prison. An Ada County judge last week signed a death warrant for Creech, a convicted
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An Iranian court has sentenced the legal representative of Mahsa Amini's family to one year in prison for "propaganda activity" against the Islamic Republic, according to an activist group.The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network said that Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolution Court of
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Ramandeep Kaur, 38, from Derby, was convicted of the murder of her husband, Sukhjit Singh, 34, during their vacation at his mother’s residence in India in 2016A court in India’s Uttar Pradesh’s awarded death penalty to a British Sikh woman for murdering her husband with the help of a friend seven