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AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
Unfortunately, some states in Nigeria continue to expand the scope of death sentences," said Amnesty International's Secretary General Salil Shetty in the organisation's 2017 global review of the death penalty. There are a total of 2,285 people on death row in Nigeria, which is also the highest in the region,Ãâà...
africanews
April 13, 2018
International rights organization, Amnesty International, has hailed the progress made by countries in sub-Saharan Africa to abolish the death penalty as a ... And the work we do is to say that the death penalty is against human rights and that some sentences are degrading and outdated,” Kine Fatim Diop ofÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 13, 2018
A judge is scheduled to hear arguments over whether to take the death penalty off the table for a former bus driver in Phoenix charged in nine killings that ... to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty as punishment after authorities released video of their client in his jail cell to news organizations.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
April 13, 2018
The Supreme Court of Iran failed to fully consider the defense' arguments before it upheld the death sentence against Iranian Kurdish political rights activist ... of the Islamic Republic of Iran, shall be regarded as moharebs, and if they use [their] weapon, its members shall be sentenced to the death penalty.”.
HuffPost
April 13, 2018
Ahmed Abdelbasit, a New Jersey teacher who faces a death sentence in Egypt for his pro-democracy activism, was detained last week outside his Jersey ... Abdelbasit was a doctoral student, physics professor and activist at Cairo University, where he helped organize peaceful protests against the military'sÃâà...
Kurdistan24
April 12, 2018
Ramin Hossein Panahi was handed the death penalty by an Iranian court in Sanandaj (Sina), Kurdistan Province on Jan. 15 for “acting against national security” and being a member of the Kurdish opposition group, Komala. Following Wednesday's verdict, the Kurdish activist's lawyer, Hossein Ahmadi Niaz, told IranÃâà...
Oxygen (blog)
April 10, 2018
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for 18-year-old Andrew Vrba, who has been implicated in the violent death of trans teenager Ally Steinfeld. ... and pursuing policies that value transgender people while they are alive," Harper Jean Tobin, the organization's director of policy, said in a statement sentÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 4, 2018
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for one of the suspects in the grisly killing of a transgender teenager in southwest Missouri. ... Last year, the organization recorded 28 instances of fatal violence against trans people, making it the "deadliest year on record for transgender people," according to HRCÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 21, 2018
Jeff Sessions instructed federal prosecutors Wednesday to seek the death penalty against major drug dealers in response to the nation's opioid crisis. ... "Drug traffickers, transnational criminal organizations and violent street gangs all contribute substantially to this scourge," Sessions said Wednesday,Ãâà...
Times of India
March 17, 2018
5 get death sentence for murdering friend in city ... The petitioner said, his organisation is also a part of the petition pending in the Supreme Court which ordered a total ban on bajri mining in the state till a ... The petition sought strict action against the vehicle owners and drivers engaged in sand mining.
CNN
March 15, 2018
(CNN) Unable to obtain drugs to use for its lethal injections, Oklahoma will use inert gas inhalation as the primary method for death penalty ... to global campaigns against the death penalty, and the lack of legally obtainable drugs led the state to impose a moratorium on capital punishment executions inÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 14, 2018
"The state intends to seek the death penalty against defendant Nikolas Jacob Cruz," the state attorney for Broward County, Michael Satz, said in the document. Cruz has been ... His defense lawyers have said he is willing to plead guilty if prosecutors agree not to pursue a death sentence. "We still standÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 8, 2018
Supporters of the bill, which faces two additional Knesset votes before it becomes law, complain that the PA and its leadership “glorify” terrorists who attack Israelis, while Israel has named innumerable streets and town squares after the pre-state Etzel and Lehi underground organizations responsible for theÃâà...
teleSUR English
March 8, 2018
“Seeking the death penalty for a photographer who simply covered an opposition demonstration is a political punishment, not an act of justice,” Reporters Without Borders said. Shawkan was arrested on Aug. 14, 2013 while covering the use of force by the security forces to break up the Rabaa SquareÃâà...
IFEX
March 8, 2018
Prosecutors have requested a death sentence for Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an Egyptian photojournalist known as Shawkan who has been held for four ... "Seeking the death penalty for a photographer who simply covered an opposition demonstration is a political punishment, not an act of justice," RSF said.
AllAfrica.com
March 7, 2018
Prosecutors have requested a death sentence for Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an Egyptian photojournalist known as Shawkan who has been held for four ... "Seeking the death penalty for a photographer who simply covered an opposition demonstration is a political punishment, not an act of justice," RSF said.
RadioFarda
March 7, 2018
The Islamic Republic's Supreme Court had already rejected the death sentence against the faith healer, calling it “incompatible with the country's current ... Amnesty International has also insisted that Taheri is a prisoner of conscience and condemned Iran's use of capital punishment “for vaguely worded orÃâà...
Myanmar Times
March 5, 2018
People sign the death penalty petition during a rally in Hlaing Tharyar township, Yangon, on Friday. ... The 4 Women Voice Programme is spearheading a signature campaign to demand that the government and Hluttaw enact a law to impose the death sentence on those found guilty of raping children.
Crime Report
February 28, 2018
She is now the National Director of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP), a project of the Brooklyn-based organization Equal Justice ... anti-death penalty arguments for conservatives is that the government can't be trusted to operate a fair and efficient system of capital punishment.
The Independent
February 26, 2018
One woman said she had taken part in battles against Iraqi coalition forces as they advanced on Isis' Iraqi stronghold of Mosul last year. All 15 said they had married Isis fighters or provided the militant organisation with “logistical aid or helping them carry out terrorist attacks," the judge's statement said.
Al-Monitor
February 25, 2018
In cases of terrorist crimes, only those who actively participated in the crimes should be handed the death sentence and not everyone who joins a terrorist group.” Commenting on the timing of the European Union resolution, he pointed out that it coincided with the campaign against the death penaltyÃâà...
