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2015-08-10 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 10 PAKISTAN: Insanity executed Our fear of mentally disabled criminal offenders is reflected in court decisions, statutes and lawyering decisions that punish defendants for raising mental status defences The relationship between mental disability and the death penalty has

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2015-08-09 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 9 PAKISTAN: Revisiting the death penalty If you ask anyone in Pakistan to tell you about the country's criminal justice system, it is likely you will be told a tale that is both horrific and depressing. You will hear about a police force that is poorly trained and ill-equipped,

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2015-08-08 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 8 IRANimpending juvenile execution Juvenile offender due to be executed within days in Iran - Amnesty The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the implementation of a death sentence for juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi, Amnesty International said on Friday. The

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2015-08-07 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 7 PAKISTAN: Hanging people for a living; Rs500 a head His job is to kill people - Rs500 a head - and he gets paid by the government. After the moratorium on death penalty was lifted in December last year, Sabir Masih has become a busy man. 1 of the only 2 hangmen in Punjab - he

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2015-08-06 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 6 LIBYA: How Libya became the International Criminal Court's latest failure Since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011, Libya's government and institutions have struggled to hold the country together. The justice system, in particular, has become a symbol of all that's wrong with

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2015-08-06 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 6 SUDAN: 'I'm Born Again': Sudan Frees Pastors Facing Death PenaltyThe good news behind judge's guilty verdict. 2 jailed South Sudanese pastors have been set free after a judge found them guilty, but ruled that they already served their sentences. Yat Michael and Peter

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2015-08-06 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 6 INDIA: History revisitedBhagat Singh and Godse: How India's stand on death penalty changed between 2 killings After the British executed Bhagat Singh and his comrades, the nation resolved to do away with capital punishment. The mood changed on January 30, 1948 - the day

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2015-08-05 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 5 CANADA: Town mayor wants death penalty to become election issue The mayor of Louiseville QC, a small town just west of Trois-Rivieres would like to see the return of the death penalty to the Canadian justice system, and he would like to hear about the candidate's opinion on the

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2015-08-05 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 5 PAKISTANexecutions 2 more murder convicts hanged in Punjab Authorities on Tuesday sent 2 more death row prisoners to gallows in Sialkot and Gujrat cities of Punjab. According to Samaa correspondent, a murderer Laghir Maseeh was hanged in Sialkot District Jail this

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2015-08-05 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 5 INDONESIA/SAUDI ARABIA: Jakarta saves 12 citizens from Saudi death penalty Indonesia said it has secured the release of 12 citizens from death row in Saudi Arabia this year. The number of Indonesians freed from death row in Saudi Arabia since 2011 is 68, the Foreign

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2015-08-05 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 5 IRAN: UN High Commissioner alarmed at execution sentence in Iran The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Wednesday expressed alarm at the imposition of the death penalty on Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of a spiritual movement, writer

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2015-08-04 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 4 PAKISTANjuvenile execution Pakistan hangs 'teen' killer Shafqat Hussain Pakistan executed a convicted child killer Tuesday, brushing aside a storm of protests from rights groups that his confession had been extracted by torture and he was a minor at the time of the crime.

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2015-08-04 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 4 SUDAN: 2 Sudanese pastors could face the death penalty in final hearing The Republic of Sudan's government is expected to hold a final hearing for 2 Christian pastors Aug. 5, media reports indicate. The case, which might result in death sentences for the pair, is the latest in

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2015-08-03 Thread Rick Halperin
LIBYA: DEATH SENTENCES FOR AL-GADDAFI OFFICIALS A Libyan court has sentenced to death nine men, all former members of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime, including his son Saif al-Islam and head of Military Intelligence Abdallah al-Senussi. The men’s trial was seriously flawed. Click

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2015-08-03 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 3 EGYPT: Lawyers for Ibrahim Halawa are warning he could receive the death penalty if he's not released from jail in Egypt. The Dublin-born teenager, who's been in prison in Cairo since his arrest 2 years ago, was told yesterday his trial had been adjourned again until October.

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2015-08-03 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 3 BANGLADESH: Child rape: SC commutes death of child convict The Supreme Court today commuted death penalty of a child convict to imprisonment until death over rape and murder of a child in Manikganj. A 4-member bench of appellate division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar

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2015-08-02 Thread Rick Halperin
August 2 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: UAE to try 41 on 'terror' chargesEmiratis among 41 to be tried in Federal Supreme Court on charges of setting up terrorist group The Public Prosecution has referred 41 men of various nationalities, including Emiratis, to the Federal Supreme Court on

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2015-08-01 Thread Rick Halperin
August 1 LIBYA: Illegitimate Show Trial Sentences Gaddafi's Son to Death In 2007, candidate Obama said (t)he president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat

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2015-07-31 Thread Rick Halperin
July 31 INDIA: Yakub Memon's hanging sparks debate over death penalty The execution of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon on Thursday sparked a debate over death penalty with prominent opposition leaders joining activists in calling for a ban and the government saying it cannot afford

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2015-07-31 Thread Rick Halperin
July 31 INDONESIA: Legal options to save Mary Jane Veloso's life 'very narrow'Speed up investigation to clear name of Catholic woman on death row in Indonesia, advocates say Lawyers for Mary Jane Veloso, the Philippines woman facing execution in Indonesia, say a stronger push

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2015-07-31 Thread Rick Halperin
July 31 BANGLADESH: Bangladesh upholds opposition leader's death sentence The Daily Star has talked to people from separate quarters of life after the Supreme Court upheld the war criminal's death penalty yesterday and found similar opinion. He is the 2nd former Minister of

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2015-07-30 Thread Rick Halperin
July 30 NORTH KOREAexecution Hyon Yong Chol disparaged Kim Jong Un prior to execution, analyst saysHyon's execution is part of Kim???s larger strategy of reducing a bloated military elite, a South Korean analyst said Wednesday. Former North Korean Defense Minister Hyon Yong

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2015-07-30 Thread Rick Halperin
July 30 INDIAexecution Yakub Memon's execution: Death penalty no answer to terror As the Supreme Court's verdict ended Yakub Memon's final hope to stop his hanging, a majority of voices opined that death penalty was not the answer to terrorism, and underlined that he was not the main

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2015-07-30 Thread Rick Halperin
July 30 ZIMBABWE: Amendments to the Criminal Law CodeThe GLA Bill proposes wide-ranging amendments to the Code, many of them minor, some of them far-reaching, most of them technically complex. In this Bill Watch we shall explain the more important of these amendments. In fact

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2015-07-29 Thread Rick Halperin
July 29 IRANexecutions Iranian Authorities Hang 14 Prisoners to Death, 3 of the Executions Carried Out in PublicIn the past 1 days Iranian authorities have reportedly hanged 14 prisoners to death, 3 of the executions were carried out in public. Based on official and

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2015-07-29 Thread Rick Halperin
July 29 PAKISTANexecutions 8 more murder convicts hanged in Pakistan 8 more death row prisoners, who were convicted for murders, were sent to gallows in different prisons of Punjab on Wednesday. According to Samaa correspondent, three murder convicts were hanged in district jail

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2015-07-29 Thread Rick Halperin
July 29 QATAR: Qatar said to consider tougher penalties on drug dealing Qatar is considering a crackdown on drug dealers who sell to adolescents, according to local press. The Gulf state wants to impose harsher punishments on dealers to curb drug use among school and college

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2015-07-28 Thread Rick Halperin
July 28 UGANDA: The Pope and the death penalty His Holiness Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Uganda in November 2015. One thing most Ugandans do not know about him is that he supports the abolition of the death penalty. On March 20, 2015, His Holiness wrote a letter to the

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2015-07-28 Thread Rick Halperin
July 28 PAKISTANexecutions 2 more murder convicts hanged across jails in Punjab 2 more convicts of murder were hanged at jails across Punjab on Tuesday morning. Akhtar and Karim were hanged at Attock District Jail and Multan Central Jail. Karim was sentenced to death for murder

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2015-07-28 Thread Rick Halperin
July 28 KUWAIT: Kuwait court sentences 4 Egyptians to death A court in Kuwait has sentenced 4 Egyptians to death over the killing of a Pakistani guard at a construction site. The Egyptian nationals were sentenced on Tuesday. They were charged with murder using a hammer. The 4 men

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2015-07-27 Thread Rick Halperin
July 27 UNITED KINGDOM/INDONESIA: Lindsay Sandiford: David Cameron's death row dilemma Trade and counter-terrorism co-operation are officially at the top of David Cameron's agenda on a two-day visit to Indonesia as part of a tour of South East Asia. But there's 1 issue the prime

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2015-07-27 Thread Rick Halperin
July 27 VIETNAM: 6 arrested in Hanoi with 120 kg of heroin in gas cylinders Investigators from the Ministry of Public Security have arrested 6 people for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly 120 kilograms of heroin in used gas cylinders to China. They cut the bottom of the cylinders

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2015-07-27 Thread Rick Halperin
July 27 IRAN: A Death Sentence Issued after Consent of the Complainants The images below are evidences that show the procedure of issuing an execution sentence for Ehsan Shah Qasemi, who has been charged with murder of a Nahi e Monkar, (Vice Preventer), and has been sentenced to

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2015-07-27 Thread Rick Halperin
IRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER NEAR TO EXECUTION Juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi is at imminent risk of execution for a murder allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. He is scheduled to be executed on 1 August. Click here to view the full Urgent Action in Word or PDF format, including

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2015-07-26 Thread Rick Halperin
July 26 PAKISTAN: Pak court stays hanging of 'mentally-ill' prisoner A Pakistani court has stayed the execution of a former policeman, convicted for killing his colleague, as it sought a report from jail authorities over his family's claims that he is mentally-ill. The district and

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2015-07-26 Thread Rick Halperin
July 26 INDIA: Must teach lesson to those who stand with enemies of humanity': Ramdev Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Sunday said that along with hanging the traitors, it is equally important to teach a lesson to the supporters of those who are against humanity and nation. Hanging

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2015-07-25 Thread Rick Halperin
July 25 INDIA: Legal eagles want life to replace death The Supreme Court has in the past admitted that its own death penalty jurisprudence is arbitrary. The present law, laid down in 1980 in the Bacchan Singh Vs State of Punjab, which established the 'rarest of the rare' doctrine

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2015-07-24 Thread Rick Halperin
PAKISTAN: EXECUTION DATE SET FOR MENTALLY ILL MAN Khizar Hayat’s execution is scheduled for 28 July. He has suffered from a mental disability since 2008 and has taken medication regularly since then. International law prohibits the execution of those with mental and intellectual

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2015-07-24 Thread Rick Halperin
July 24 INDIA: Days from an execution, India faces questions over death penalty India's Supreme Court said Friday that it would hear a last-ditch appeal by a death-row prisoner whose case has renewed questions about capital punishment in the world's 2nd-most populous nation. The

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2015-07-24 Thread Rick Halperin
July 24 INDIA: After 13 years, Godhra carnage accused held in Madhya Pradesh An accused in the 2002 Sabarmati Express train burning incident has been arrested from Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh by the Godhra Local Crime Branch (LCB). Hussain Suleman Mohan (35) was arrested by LCB from

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2015-07-23 Thread Rick Halperin
July 23 INDIA: Yakub Memon being hanged because he's a Muslim: Asaduddin OwaisiOwaisi said killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh are not being executed because of political pressure. Raising questions over 1993 Mumbai serial blasts

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2015-07-23 Thread Rick Halperin
July 23 PAKISTAN: Executing the mentally ill Since Pakistan abandoned its moratorium on the death penalty in December, the state has embarked upon a relentless spree to execute hordes of prisoners who have been languishing for decades in death row cells all across the country.

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2015-07-23 Thread Rick Halperin
July 23 ZIMBABWE: Amnesty International urges Zim to follow trend and abolish the death penalty Zimbabwe on Wednesday marked a decade without executions of prisoners on death row, something Amnesty International (AI) described as a milestone towards protection of the right to life

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2015-07-22 Thread Rick Halperin
July 22 ZIMBABWE: End the death penalty after 10-year execution hiatus A 10-year hiatus in executions is a milestone for the protection of the right to life and the eventual abolition of the death penalty in Zimbabwe, said Amnesty International as the country marked a decade without

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2015-07-22 Thread Rick Halperin
July 22 ZAMBIA: UN rights experts hail Zambia's move away from death penalty, but warn of areas of concern in Africa 2 United Nations human rights experts welcomed a recent decision by the President of Zambia, Edgar Lungui, to commute the death sentences of 332 individuals to life

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2015-07-21 Thread Rick Halperin
July 21 ZAMBIA: Lungu Congratulated for Death Penalty Amnesties The following statement was circulated today by Zambians Against Tribalism,Violence and Apathy (ZATVA): We have learnt with excitement over the decision by President Edgar Lungu to commute death sentences of 332 to life

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2015-07-21 Thread Rick Halperin
July 21 INDIA: No relief for death row-turned-life convicts: Centre The Centre today contended in the Supreme Court that state governments had no power to reduce the jail terms of convicts whose death penalty had been commuted to life sentence. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar made

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2015-07-20 Thread Rick Halperin
July 20 MALAYSIA: Scrap metal collector charged with murder A scrap metal collector could face death penalty for slashing another man in Brickfields. R. Prabakaran, 23, was charged with murder at the magistrate's court here this morning. He allegedly killed F. Logeswaran, 25, between

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2015-07-20 Thread Rick Halperin
July 20 INDIA: Death penalty cannot be arbitrarily imposed: Expert Of the over 1600 convicts awarded the death penalty in the last 15 years, the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence in only 5% of cases while rest were either commuted to life or acquitted. A recent study by the

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2015-07-19 Thread Rick Halperin
July 19 BRITAIN/IRAN: Vigil marks 10th anniversary of Iran hanging 2 gay teens A vigil took place in London today to mark the 10th anniversary of the hanging of 1 Iranian gay teenagers. 10 years ago, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were hanged publicly in the city of Mashhad.

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2015-07-18 Thread Rick Halperin
July 18 IRAN: Imprisoned Founder of Spiritual Group Awaits Clarification on His SentenceMay Still Face Death Penalty for Peaceful Practice of Beliefs Uncertainty surrounds the sentence of Mohammad Ali Taheri, the imprisoned founder of a spiritual healing and cultural group. The

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2015-07-17 Thread Rick Halperin
July 17 ZAMBIA: Human Rights Commission comments on Commutation of Death Sentences and HH Attack FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES FOR DEATH ROW INMATES BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU The Human Rights Commission is delighted at the

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2015-07-16 Thread Rick Halperin
July 16 CHINA: Sick man sentenced to death for injuring 20 in NE China A very ill man in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province received death penalty for injuring 20 people with a knife, a statement issued by a local court said on Thursday. Li Huaqiang, who suffers myasthenia

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2015-07-16 Thread Rick Halperin
July 16 TAIWAN: Taiwan prosecutors seeking death penalty for suspect in schoolgirl stabbing Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for Kung Chung-an, whom they have indicted for the murder of an 8-year-old girl. The Shilin District Prosecutors Office said Kung should be

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2015-07-15 Thread Rick Halperin
July 15 INDIA: Yakub Memon and 23 other mercy pleas rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee The 1993 Bombay serial blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon is likely to be hanged on July 30 depending on his curative petition in the Supreme Court. Earlier in April 2014, President

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2015-07-15 Thread Rick Halperin
July 15 ISRAEL: Netanyahu Buries Death Penalty Law Slated to go before Ministerial Committee Sunday, death penalty for terrorists bill indefinitely frozen by PM's technical maneuver. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has significantly slowed the advancement of a controversial bill on

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2015-07-14 Thread Rick Halperin
July 14 PHILIPPINES/MALAYSIA: PH seeks pardon for Filipino couple sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Sabah The Philippine government has continued to ask for pardon for the Filipino couple sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Sabah in 2006. In a news release, the

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2015-07-14 Thread Rick Halperin
July 14 BAHAMAS: A Life in Crime For the past 6 month Dr Mike Neville, a renowned and experienced forensic psychiatrist, has been examining the root causes of serious crime, a current scourge on society in the Bahamas. He set out to inform an evidence-based national debate on how

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2015-07-12 Thread Rick Halperin
July 12 EGYPT: Egypt court postpones Morsi espionage trial A criminal court in the Egyptian capital of Cairo has postponed the trial of Egypt's 1st elected President Mohamed Morsi on charges of alleged spying and leaking classified documents to Qatar to July 21, judicial sources

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2015-07-12 Thread Rick Halperin
July 12 BANGLADESH: BDR carnage case appeals verdict date likely to be fixed by September With the majority of the hearings complete, the High Court is likely to fix by September a date to deliver verdict in the BDR carnage case, the biggest ever criminal case in Bangladesh's history

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2015-07-11 Thread Rick Halperin
July 11 SINGAPORE: Alleged drug kingpin nabbed during CNB 5 suspected drug offenders, including the alleged leader of a drug syndicate, were arrested yesterday in an operation by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). CNB officers also seized 2.31kg of heroin with an estimated street

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2015-07-10 Thread Rick Halperin
July 10 INDIA: India's Use of the Death Penalty Rises New figures on the use of the death penalty in India show the punishment is being awarded more often than at the start of the century and give a state-by-state breakdown of where it was used most by courts in that time. More

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2015-07-10 Thread Rick Halperin
July 10 PAKISTAN: Death-row prisoner rescued after paying ransom After 3 years on death row in Central Jail Adyala, Rawalpindi, Sajid Masih's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was released 15 years later in early July, 2015, after human activist who had been visiting

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2015-07-10 Thread Rick Halperin
July 10 GLOBAL: A global view of America's relationship with capital punishment China. Iran. Saudi Arabia. Iraq. The United States of America. What you just read is, according to Amnesty International, a list of the countries that executed the largest numbers of prisoners in 2014.

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2015-07-09 Thread Rick Halperin
July 9 ISRAEL: The death penalty is making a comeback in IsraelBy sentencing Palestinians convicted of murder to death, the Israeli Right will only bring the mutual cruelty between Jews and Palestinians to another level. No one really wants to look back and learn anything from

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2015-07-09 Thread Rick Halperin
July 9 NORTH KOREA: Seoul: North Korean leader has so far executed 70 officials. Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has executed 70 officials since taking power in late 2011 in a reign of terror that far exceeds the bloodshed of his dictator father's early rule, South Korean

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2015-07-08 Thread Rick Halperin
July 8 INDONESIA: Family of 3 in Aceh facing death penalty for smuggling meth from Malaysia A husband and wife, as well as their son and a business partner, are currently on trial in Aceh for smuggling 14.4 kg of methamphetamines from Malaysia into Indonesia. Accoding to Detik,

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2015-07-08 Thread Rick Halperin
July 8 ENGLAND: 'Fund me to fight the death penalty in US' A young lawyer who dreams of abolishing the death penalty has secured a scholarship in the US - but needs strangers' help to get her there. Samantha Chammings, who has been offered a rare chance to study a legal masters at

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2015-07-07 Thread Rick Halperin
July 7 ALBANIA: Tahiri comments the chance to restore death penalty in Albania Minister Tahiri has praised calls to restore the death penalty, after the execution of 2 Czech tourists. Through a detailed post on the social network Facebook, Tahiri writes that he has proposed 2 new

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2015-07-07 Thread Rick Halperin
July 7 CHINA: Chinese court upholds death penalty for 5 people in plot to kill miners and claim compensationSchemers were able to claim $300,000 in compensation due to lax safety regulation A court in eastern China upheld death sentences for 5 people who conspired to kill

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2015-07-07 Thread Rick Halperin
July 7 INDIA: 1993 blasts accused Yakub Memon could be hanged this month, moves curative petition As per legal process, a curative petition can only be filed when the petitioner establishes that there was a genuine violation of principles of natural justice in his case, and when

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2015-07-06 Thread Rick Halperin
July 6 BANGLADESH: SC asks SQ Chy's lawyer to end argument tomorrow The Supreme Court today asked a counsel for war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to complete their argument by tomorrow on the appeal against his death sentence. While hearing the appeal for the 12th day, a

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2015-07-06 Thread Rick Halperin
July 6 ETHIOPIA: UN calls for 'immediate release' of British activist jailed in Ethiopia United Nations (UN) has called for the immediate release of an Ethiopian-British citizen being held on death row in Ethiopia for more than a year, a case which campaigners have claimed exposes

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2015-07-05 Thread Rick Halperin
July 5 AFGHANISTAN: Farkhunda mob killing: Family's lawyer calls Afghan court corrupt for death sentence U-turnAttorney Kimberley Motley has claimed the family of a 27-year old woman beaten to death in March knew nothing about a 'secret' hearing to overturn the death sentences of

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2015-07-04 Thread Rick Halperin
July 4 GUYANA: Guyana should abolish the death penalty Dear Editor, The European Union welcomes Suriname's recent ratification of a new penal code which includes abolition of the death penalty. By taking this positive step Suriname has joined the ever-increasing number of

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2015-07-02 Thread Rick Halperin
July 2 IRAN: Iran executes hundreds in brutal crane hangings at mega-prison outside Tehran At least 1,900 people have been executed in Iran since President Hassan Rouhani took office in June 2013, an NGO has warned. Iran has one of the highest rates of executions in the world and

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2015-07-01 Thread Rick Halperin
July 1 SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi sentenced to death over multiple murderMan who strangled, stabbed wife, four children suffered from mental health problems A court in Saudi Arabia has condemned a Saudi national to death for killing his wife and 4 children in 2013. The multiple

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2015-06-30 Thread Rick Halperin
June 30 PAKISTAN: Court announces death penalty of convict in murder case Session court in Lahore on Tuesday has sentenced a suspect to death penalty while another one has to bear life imprisonment for killing as many as 2 people during dacoity bid, Dunya News reported. As per

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2015-06-29 Thread Rick Halperin
June 29 CHINA: Lawmakers Considering Harsher Punishment for Human Trafficker China's top lawmakers are considering tougher punishments for all parties involved in human trafficking, including those who buy abducted children. The 9th draft amendment to the Criminal Law was submitted

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2015-06-27 Thread Rick Halperin
June 27 SUDAN: Prosecution Rests in Trial of Christian Pastors in Sudan The Sudanese government rested its case Thursday in the trial of Pastors Yat Michael Ruot and Peter Yein Reith. The 2 Christian pastors from South Sudan face potential death sentences after being arrested in

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2015-06-26 Thread Rick Halperin
June 26 SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia says it will support human rights as long as they can still kill gay peopleMiddle Eastern country faced criticism for acts of torture against LGBTI people Saudi Arabia convicts homosexuality with anything from whipping to a death sentence.

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2015-06-25 Thread Rick Halperin
June 25 BELARUS: 5th argument against death penalty The film from the series 6 Arguments against Death Penalty tells about inhuman treatment of relatives of executed in Belarus. The UN Human Rights Committee repeatedly stated that the procedure of death penalty in Belarus comes

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2015-06-24 Thread Rick Halperin
June 24 INDIA: Mumbai liquor tragedy: CM wants death penalty for Malwani hooch culprits If the chief minister has his way, those responsible for the 104 deaths in the Malwani hooch tragedy could pay for the crime with their own lives. In what could be a strong deterrent for the

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2015-06-23 Thread Rick Halperin
June 23 IRAQ: Iraq Lawmakers Should Reject Proposal to Fast-Track Executions Iraq parliamentarians should vote against a measure that calls for skipping presidential ratification of death sentences, because it would expedite the carrying out of executions, a human rights group said in

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2015-06-23 Thread Rick Halperin
June 23 GAMBIA: Gambia opposition attacks plan to expand death penalty Opposition activists have vowed to fight plans announced by The Gambia to expand the list of offences punishable by death to any crime deemed sufficiently serious by parliament. The west African nation currently

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2015-06-22 Thread Rick Halperin
June 22 PHILIPPINES/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Emotional meeting between Baldoz, OFW with death sentenceOn appeal, Dalquez' death sentence stems from a murder conviction handed down by the Al Ain Court of First Instance last May 20 Of course, she cried when she recounted her ordeal,

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2015-06-22 Thread Rick Halperin
June 22 PAKISTAN: Pakistan considers blasphemy law overhaul Pakistan is considering blasphemy law reforms. The last time a lawmaker messed with the law, he was assassinated. In 2008, Salman Taseer, the 26th governor of Punjab province, advocated for Asia Bibi's release from jail.

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2015-06-22 Thread Rick Halperin
June 22 ENGLAND: Hangman's box used by Bradford-born executioner is focal point of new exhibition A hangman's box, used by Bradford-born executioner Albert Pierrepoint, is the focal point of the latest exhibition at the Bradford Police Museum. The box, which contains the

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2015-06-22 Thread Rick Halperin
June 22 ENGLAND: Hangman's box used by Bradford-born executioner is focal point of new exhibition A hangman's box, used by Bradford-born executioner Albert Pierrepoint, is the focal point of the latest exhibition at the Bradford Police Museum. The box, which contains the

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2015-06-21 Thread Rick Halperin
June 21 PAKISTAN: 5 Britons set to be hanged as Pakistan starts executing thousands of prisoners to reduce number on death row 5 British citizens are facing execution for drug offences in Pakistan amid a surge of hangings in the country. The existence of the 5, including 1

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2015-06-20 Thread Rick Halperin
June 20 GLOBAL: A history of unjust executionsEgypt's 1st democratically elected President, Mohammed Morsi, was sentenced to death by Egyptian court on Tuesday. History repeats itself, this is something everyone is aware of. But it seems that sometimes we forget and are taken

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2015-06-20 Thread Rick Halperin
June 20 EGYPT: Death penalty divides Egyptians Egyptian rights activists are demanding the abolition of the death penalty following what they described as the expansion of death sentences in Egypt - and as foreign countries and international human rights organizations such as Human

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2015-06-19 Thread Rick Halperin
June 19 NIGERIA: Is Death Penalty The Best Way To Fight Corruption? The current level of corruption in Nigeria is so high that it calls for drastic solution. Some people believe that death penalty is a very suitable option for combating corruption, which negatively affects the public

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2015-06-18 Thread Rick Halperin
June 18 SAUDI ARABIA: 100 Beheadings, 6 Months: Why the Saudi Kingdom Is on an Execution Spree The Saudis are on a beheading spree, executing 100 'criminals' in the 1st half of the year. Blame a new king, a failed war, and a double jihadi threat for the gruesome upswing. The Saudi

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2015-06-18 Thread Rick Halperin
June 18 SUDAN: Lawyer for pastors on trial in Sudan says no new evidence against them A lawyer defending the 2 South Sudanese pastors jailed in Khartoum said he does not expect any new evidence to be presented against his clients when their trial restarts tomorrow. According to

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2015-06-18 Thread Rick Halperin
June 18 CHINA: Online petition seeking death penalty for child traffickers goes viral It turns out that Chinese social media is not only for popularizing ridiculous fitness challenges, but can also be used, from time to time, to draw attention to more serious social issues. In the

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2015-06-17 Thread Rick Halperin
June 17 BANGLADESH: Hearing on SQ Chy's appeal adjourned till Sunday The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing until Sunday on the appeal filed by condemned convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury challenging the death penalty handed down to him for his war crimes. The

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2015-06-17 Thread Rick Halperin
June 17 EGYPT: Morsi Death Penalty Upheld An Egyptian court yesterday confirmed the death sentence against ousted President Mohamed Morsi over mass jailbreak during the 2011 political turmoil, state-run Nile TV reported. Another 5 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group,

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2015-06-17 Thread Rick Halperin
June 17 INDONESIA: Bali drug accused De Malmanche escapes death penalty Prosecutors say they will not be seeking the death penalty in the trial against Antony De Malmanche, the Kiwi accused of smuggling methamphetamine into Bali. 3 News reported prosecutors would not be seeking the

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2015-06-16 Thread Rick Halperin
June 16 CHINA: Why Lawyers Are The Only Opposition To The Death Penalty In ChinaA murder case in which a Chinese student poisoned and killed his roommate has brought out the worst in the Chinese public, which is practically marching with pitchforks for his execution. Attorneys,

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