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On Friday, October 13, the sole surviving family member of murder victim Gary L. Dickerson joined dozens of faith leaders and others in asking the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for clemency for Will Speer. Mr. Speer is set to be executed on October 26, 2023. After a childhood of horrific abuse, a life sentence by age 18, and a judgment of death
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Matthew Taylor Coleman, a Santa Barbara surf school owner charged with killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun in Baja, Mexico, was deemed incompetent to stand trial by a federal judge in San Diego on Thursday.According to the San Diego Tribune, U.S. District
Scott Panetti was deemed incompetent for execution. What does this mean for other prisoners?A federal judge has declared that Scott Panetti, a longtime resident of Texas’ death row, is incompetent for execution due to the severity of his mental illness. The decision comes more than 15 years after
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge issued a death warrant on Thursday for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, scheduling his execution for next month.Thomas Creech was convicted of killing two people in Valley County in 1974 and sentenced to death row. But after an appeal that sentence
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Hamas terrorists cold-bloodedly execute 90-year-old Israeli womanAs Israeli forces continue to clear Gaza border towns of Hamas terrorists, harrowing scenes keep emerging, with particularly gruesome images being revealed in Kibbutz Kissufim."Dozens of terrorists entered Kissufim and broke into
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Pannir Selvam Pranthaman has spent the last nine years – a quarter of his 36 years on earth – in prison. Seven of those have been on death row.The son of a pastor in Ipoh, Pannir had come to Singapore to work and made friends with the wrong crowd. They convinced him to carry packages from
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Nun and famed anti-death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean has sued Louisiana’s prison pardon board and state attorney general Jeff Landry, arguing officials illegally agreed to halt numerous appeals from death row without the required public input.“I’m suing the Louisiana Board of Pardons,”
Today [Oct. 10] is the 21st World Day against the Death Penalty, and a pathway towards abolition of this cruel measure in the South East Asia is not unimaginable.I don’t pen these words in response to vast mobilizations against capital punishment sweeping the region. Quite the
“A chilling whisper lingered in the air as he disclosed these unsettling words, meant for my ears only. ‘You believe these sentences from the Judiciary hold weight? We don’t concern ourselves with judgments and court rulings. We execute at our discretion, whenever we see fit. You may languish for
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LAGOS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Monday sentenced to death a police officer convicted of shooting dead a pregnant female lawyer on Christmas Day in 2022, likely igniting debate on the place of the death penalty in Africa's most populous country.Nigeria has at least 3,000 people on
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Should Oklahoma lawmakers place a moratorium on the death penalty? A legislative panel believes so. Fox 25 listened in on an interim study held at the State Capitol.People familiar with Oklahoma's criminal justice system spoke at the study. They all pointed out some flaws
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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Three individuals have been arrested for suspected drug offences, with heroin valued at more than $259,000 (RM900,000) seized.The amount of heroin seized is enough to feed the addiction of about 1,170 abusers for a week, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor's race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.The win is a major victory for the GOP as they reclaim the governor's mansion for the first time in eight years
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BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - The Louisiana Board of Pardons has declined to move forward with the first five death row applications during administrative reviews Friday in Baton Rouge.This comes after an agreement was reached last week between the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, district
SAN QUENTIN — Douglas Daniel Clark, housed at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center on condemned status since 1983, died Oct. 11, 2023. He was 75.At 3:39 p.m., Douglas Daniel Clark was pronounced deceased from natural causes at an outside medical facility. The Marin Coroner’s Office will determine
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 12, 2023: Hossein Bahrehmand, a man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Hamedan Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Hamedan Central Prison on 11 October. His identity has been
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Amnesty International says authorities in Iran and 35 other countries continue to use the death penalty for drug-related offenses in contravention of international human rights law and standards. More than 700 drug-related executions were carried out across the world between 2018 and 2022
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To this day Hussain trembles when he thinks of the time, and the experiences he had still gives him nightmares. Like many others who are prisoners of the death row, Hussain himself believes that being alive there is a fate worse than death“Who eats when they are sitting on death row, waiting to
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of the state’s lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a jury to sentence him to death for killing an elderly woman decades ago was executed late Tuesday.Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was
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As Saudi Arabia continues to issue and carry out death sentences, ranking prominently among the top five countries with the highest execution rates, the world observes the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, 2023, under the theme "Execution: Irreversible Torture."For the second
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In a victory last month at the Louisiana Supreme Court, Attorney General Jeff Landry successfully defended the governor’s exclusive power to grant mercy to prisoners at the recommendation of the pardon board he appoints.Now Landry, the frontrunner to become governor on Jan. 8, has stymied a bid
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The governor of Louisiana is a powerful fellow, but it was verging on cruelty for John Bel Edwards to raise hopes of clemency among the 56 of the state's 57 death row inmates who have asked for it.It was never going to happen.Edwards wanted the state pardon board to consider a mass commutation
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 5, 2023: State media have reported the execution of an unidentified man for murder in Mashhad Central Prison.According to Etemad Online, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison (Vakil Abad) on 1 October. His identity has only been reported as 35-year-old
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The court sentenced two other accomplices to life imprisonment.The Court of First Instance in charge of terrorism cases at the Court of Appeals in Rabat sentenced a man to the death penalty for his involvement in the murder of a policeman.The court issued its verdict on Thursday. Two other
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As a nation that claims to uphold human rights, it is puzzling that Indonesia retains the death penalty in its criminal justice system. The problem with our capital punishment is not just the fact that it is irreversible, but also because of the country’s corrupt system that allows room for
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They may be the only five of 56 prisoners who asked for mercy to have a shot at receiving it.Antoinette Frank, the infamous New Orleans police officer and the only woman facing execution in Louisiana, will argue for mercy along with four condemned men on Friday as the Louisiana Board of Pardons
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The State of Idaho has issued a death warrant for the execution of convicted murderer Thomas Eugene Creech. The execution is scheduled for Nov. 8, 2023 by lethal injection.The Idaho Department of Correction said in a news release it has secured the chemicals necessary for the lethal
Catholics, Protestants and other Christian groups joined rights activists in South Korea to call for an end to capital punishment, marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty on Oct. 10.The United Conference on the Abolition of the Death Penalty, a forum that includes members of several
SINGAPORE: Families of death row convicts urged the Singapore government today to impose a moratorium on capital punishment to allow for an independent review of the controversial use of executions in the city state.Five families called for a meeting with Singapore’s law and home affairs minister
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I’ve long spoken up against the death penalty, a punishment so cruel, inhumane, and riddled with error and malice that it should have no place in our modern world. Its proponents claim it deters crime, yet nothing could be further from the truth – and study after study refutes that claim. Look
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Jedidiah Murphy gets reprieve one day before he was scheduled to receive lethal injection over fatal 2000 shooting of an 80-year-old during a carjackingJTA — A stay of execution was upheld for a Jew on death row in Texas, one day before he was scheduled to receive a lethal injection.Jedidiah
The number of executions in Iran has drastically increased since more than two years ago, when Ebrahim Raisi took office as the mullahs’ president in August 2021.On the eve of the World and Europe Day Against the Death Penalty, we appeal to the international community to do whatever in their
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A federal judge on Friday denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit that the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe.The Texas Attorney General’s Office says testing done
A manager at a North Korean pharmaceutical warehouse was publicly executed last month for stealing 20,000 doses of penicillin, sources inside the country said.The man, who was in his 40s, was shot to death on Sept. 25 in Hyesan, a northern city in Ryanggang province on the Chinese border, said a