Death Penalty
# death-penalty - Friday 10 May, 2013
Prosecutor may seek death penalty in US kidnap case
Prosecutors say that charges will be sought against Ariel Castro for every act of sexual violence, rape, every day of kidnapping, every felonious assault, attempted murder and aggravated murder alleged.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Man who killed girlfriend’s baby in sex assault looking for mercy
Steven Smith may face death penalty in Ohio should intent to kill be proven.
# death-penalty - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Poll: Do you agree with the death penalty?
As the US state of Maryland votes to abolish it, we’re asking: do you agree with capital punishment?
# death-penalty - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Fort Hood army shooter loses bid to avoid death penalty
Major Nidal Hasan is accused of going on a shooting spree in 2009 that left 13 dead and 32 wounded at the army base in Texas.
# death-penalty - Saturday 26 January, 2013
At least 22 dead following clashes in Egypt over football riot verdicts
Earlier a court in Port Said sentenced 21 people to death over the violence that led to 74 deaths at a football match in the coastal town last year.
Egypt: 21 people sentenced to death over Port Said football disaster
A policeman has reportedly been killed in violence in the coastal city of Port Said following the announcement of the verdicts.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Indian panel recommends tougher sex crime sentences
India’s sex crime laws were being reviewed following the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi.
# death-penalty - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Delhi gang-rape suspects to be charged in court
Five men will stand accused of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a young female student, who died at the weekend from the horrific injuries inflicted on her during an ordeal.
# death-penalty - Sunday 23 December, 2012
Indian gang-rape victim recounts ordeal
The newspaper reports about the victim’s statement to police come as authorities ban related protests in New Delhi.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Labour LGBT: Ugandan ‘kill the gays’ bill must be stopped
Fears have been raised over Uganda vowing to pass an extreme homophobic law that includes a provision prescribing the death penalty for gay people.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Petitions in three Irish cities to mark World Death Penalty Day
Amnesty International Ireland will collect signatures hoping to prevent the execution of Anthony Haynes in Texas this month.
# death-penalty - Monday 1 October, 2012
Muslims accused of blasphemy after attack on Hindu temple in Pakistan
Sections of the country’s blasphemy laws carry life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
Death penalty confirmed for sole surviving Mumbai attacks gunman
Mohammad Kasab is expected to lodge a final appeal for clemency with the new President of India Pranab Mukherjee.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Texas executes convicted killer despite claims of low IQ
Lawyers for 54-year-old Marvin Wilson had argued that he should have been exempt from capital punishment because he had an IQ of 61.
# death-penalty - Monday 30 July, 2012
Colorado shooting suspect charged with 24 counts of murder
The 24-year-old suspect has been formally charged with a total of 142 counts over the deadly shootings at a Colorado cinema earlier this month.
Iran to execute four people convicted over major bank fraud
Scandal centred on bank loans through allegedly forged or illegally-obtained letters of credit to buy several state companies.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Death row prisoner given reprieve two hours before execution
Warren Hill, who is intellectually disabled,was sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
Poll: Do you agree with the death penalty?
Which is more appropriate, a death penalty or a life in prison without parole? Have your say…
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Californians to vote on measure to abolish death penalty
Supporters of the measure argue it could save the state millions of dollars. No one has been executed in the state since 2006.
# death-penalty - Friday 20 April, 2012
Gaza executions ‘unlawful’ says UN
Human rights office says death sentences were not approved by the Palestinian president as required.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
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China is the world’s ‘number one executioner’ – Amnesty report
A new report says that the number of countries who have the death penalty is declining but there has been a surge in the number of executions in the Middle East.
# death-penalty - Sunday 18 March, 2012
Belarus executes men convicted of subway bombing
The EU’s foreign policy chief has voiced concerns over the trial of the men convicted for the April 2011 bomb which killed 15 people in Minsk.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 7 February, 2012
Controversial anti-gay bill reintroduced to Ugandan parliament
The bill’s progress slowed after international outcry over the bill which carries severe penalties for homosexual acts.
# death-penalty - Monday 12 December, 2011
Woman beheaded in Saudi Arabia for ‘sorcery’
Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International Ireland has called the killing an “appalling and sickening act”.
South African woman executed in China
Janice Bronwyn Linden was executed after being convicted for smuggling drugs into China – despite an appeal for clemency from the South African president.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
Ohio executes man who killed three sleeping sons
Although attorneys argued that Brooks was a paranoid schizophrenic and not mentally competent to be tried for murder, he was executed by lethal injection for the 1982 killings of his three sons today in Ohio.
# death-penalty - Monday 3 October, 2011
Iranian pastor “faces death sentence for rape”
Youcef Nadarkhani faces a death sentence – but for rape, and not for converting from Islam to Christianity, it is now being claimed.
# death-penalty - Saturday 1 October, 2011
‘Don’t let me die in vain’: Executed Troy Davis remembered at memorial
Supporters have gathered for Davis’ funeral today, after his execution for a murder he insisted he did not commit.
# death-penalty - Thursday 22 September, 2011
Troy Davis executed by lethal injection
The 42-year-old spent more than two decades on death row for a crime he always maintained he did not commit. His request for a polygraph test before his execution was denied.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Troy Davis’ final appeal denied, execution to go ahead
After spending more than two decades on death row, Georgia inmate Troy Davis is to be killed by lethal injection today – despite Amnesty International insisting that the evidence against him has “fallen apart”.
# death-penalty - Friday 16 September, 2011
Texas execution halted, questions about role of race in sentencing
The execution of a man in Texas has been halted after his legal team produced the testimony of a psychologist from the original trial – in which it was said that black people were “more likely” to commit violence.
# death-penalty - Thursday 4 August, 2011
British MPs may debate death penalty reintroduction
Capital punishment debate petition has been generating support online, but needs 100,000 signatures before being considered for House of Commons debate.
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# death-penalty - Tuesday 31 May, 2011
Calls for India to cancel first hangings since 2004
Human rights group Amnesty International has urged the Indian government call off two planned executions, which would be the first to occur in the country for seven years.
# death-penalty - Thursday 14 April, 2011
Denmark to lobby US states over use of drugs for death penalty
Minister says she will approach US states which use Danish-made drugs in their lethal injections.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 9 March, 2011
Death penalty abolished in Illinois
Governor commutes death sentences of over a dozen inmates and abolishes the state’s death penalty.
# death-penalty - Thursday 3 February, 2011
Pakistan urged to drop blasphemy charges against 17 year old
The schoolboy faces death after allegedly scribbling blasphemous comments on an exam paper.
# death-penalty - Monday 17 January, 2011
Ashtiani’s death sentence suspended, says human rights campaigner
Reports suggest death sentence of Iranian woman condemned for adultery and the murder of her husband was never actually confirmed.
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