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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 18 AFGHANISTAN: Hundreds Gather To Commemorate Afghan Woman Lynched By Mob Hundreds of Afghans have taken to the streets in Kabul to commemorate the death anniversary of a woman killed by a mob. In March last year, a Kabul mob brutally attacked 27-year-old Farkhunda

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 18 PENNSYLVANIA: Death penalty warrant delayed for Millcreek man The warrant in Erie County's only active death penalty case is now delayed just 2 days after it was signed. Earlier this week, the death warrant was signed for 46 year old Stephen Treiber, the Millcreek man

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 16 TEXASimpending execution Death Watch: A Question of PremeditationAdam Kelly Ward set to die March 22 Shortly after 10am on June 13, 2005, 22-year-old Adam Kelly Ward was out front of his parents' home in Commerce, Texas, washing a car, when he started arguing with

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 16 SWAZILAND: Swazi lawmakers want death penalty to stay While the African Union's Commissioner on Human and People's Rights Pansy Tlakula wants Swaziland to abolish the death penalty, parliamentarians want murderers to be killed, APA learnt on Wednesday.While on a visit to

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 17 TEXASimpending execution Appeals court denies stay of execution for Adam Kelly Ward The state's highest criminal appeals court has denied a stay of execution for a Commerce man, who claims he was mentally ill when he shot and killed one of the city's code enforcement

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 16 IRAQexecution Iraq executes Saudi prisoner 'for terrorism' Iraqi authorities executed Saudi prisoner Abdullah Mahmous Sydat last Sunday. Sydat was being held in Al-Nasiryah Prison, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. According to Al-Riyadh newspaper, the Iraqi Ministry of

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 19 BARBADOS: Mercy for victims' families too It would be quite hard for any reasonable person to argue with any degree of strength that there is not significant merit in the suggestion of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Charles Leacock QC on the way the Mercy Committee

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 19 TEXAS: Freed from death row, Anthony Graves uses compensation to help other inmates - including his best friend Nanon Williams expected to walk out of prison in 2010, just about the same time as his close friend and former death row mentor Anthony Graves. For the 3rd

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2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 17 TANZANIA: 19 Face Death Penalty Over Albino Killings in Tanzania 19 people have been sentenced to death after being convicted of killing albinos, the Tanzanian government has confirmed. Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Hamad Yusuf Masauni told Anadolu Agency on Saturday that

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----OHIO, ARK., ARIZ., NEV., CALIF., USA

2016-03-19 Thread Rick Halperin
March 18 OHIO: Romell Broom ruling allowing serial execution attempts sets up nightmare scenario How many times should a state be able to try to execute someone without running afoul of the Constitution? Little noted amidst this week's headline-grabbing news of Donald Trump's