OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — The interval between executions in Oklahoma will grow to 90 days, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled on Tuesday.The court also decided against setting execution...
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SINGAPORE — Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday (May 8) cited local and regional surveys as proof of strong and growing support for using the death penalty on dru...
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Iraqi courts have handed down hundreds of death and life sentences in recent years for people convicted of membership in a terrorist group.BAGHDAD – Eleven people were executed on Monday at Al-...
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On April 30, 2024, a week after the parties in Glossip v. Oklahoma filed merits briefs at the United States Supreme Court, several amici filed briefs in support of the parties’ joint position, ...
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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Alan Eugene Miller, setting the stage for the state to have at least four executions this year.Miller's execution would ...
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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....
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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 v...
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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...
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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 Hum...
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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, Bab...
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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...
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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 d...
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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 meth...
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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 figure...
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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 I...
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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 adm...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 w...
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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 m...
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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 Huma...
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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...
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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 medi...
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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-j...
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