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# capital-punishment - Friday 26 May, 2017
US prisoner Tommy Arthur executed in Alabama after three decade legal battle
Arthur, who became known as the Houdini of death row, managed to evade his final sentence seven times.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 25 May, 2017
A US prisoner will face the death penalty tonight - for the eighth time
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
# capital-punishment - Sunday 30 April, 2017
Qatar will execute a man who killed a British teacher and burned her body in the desert
The death penalty is rarely used in Qatar.
# capital-punishment - Friday 28 April, 2017
Arkansas execution spree ends after another man is put to death
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
# capital-punishment - Monday 10 April, 2017
Arkansas wants to execute a record seven men in 11 days
The US state wants to do it before its access to an execution drug is stopped.
# capital-punishment - Sunday 19 March, 2017
'If you have the death penalty, you can't be in the EU' - The simple message to Turkey
Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue
# capital-punishment - Sunday 1 January, 2017
Ireland's death penalty was a 'quaint throwback' but not everyone wanted to get rid of it
Thirty years ago, there were some political considerations.
# capital-punishment - Monday 26 December, 2016
Crime, murder and the end of the Civil War: The story of the first man hanged by the Irish Free State
Author Colm Wallace tells the story of soldier-turned-criminal William Downes.
# capital-punishment - Monday 14 November, 2016
It's through: Dublin City Council budget passes after filling €15 million shortfall
Commercial rates and social housing costs rise as parties call for a meeting with Minister Simon Coveney.
# capital-punishment - Monday 4 July, 2016
The average asking price for a house in Dublin city is now €314,311
And prices are rising across the country.
# capital-punishment - Saturday 11 June, 2016
'Hanging is too mild for such a savage': The story of the youngest man executed by the Irish State
William O’Neill was executed four days after Christmas, on the 29 December 1927. He was 19 years old.
# capital-punishment - Monday 16 May, 2016
The new President of the Philippines says he will hang criminals and let snipers shoot to kill
He says citizens must learn to fear the law.
# capital-punishment - Monday 28 March, 2016
The man who lived: How one convicted murderer escaped Ireland's death penalty
Patrick Aylward, 63, was accused of burning a young child to death.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
Convicted murderer Romell Broom survived one execution but he now faces a second
Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.
# capital-punishment - Sunday 6 March, 2016
An Iranian billionaire has been sentenced to death
Babak Zanjani denied charges of money laundering.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 3 February, 2016
Georgia has just executed its oldest death row inmate
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
# capital-punishment - Monday 1 February, 2016
72-year-old man on death row in the US to be executed tomorrow
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 19 November, 2015
Triple child killer who murdered his daughter in petrol-filled house fire is executed
Raphael Holiday killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two half-sisters in Texas.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 22 September, 2015
Pakistan wants to hang a paraplegic wheelchair user
Abdul Basit has been given a last-minute reprieve after appeals by Human Rights groups.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
"He can rot in hell" - Man who killed girlfriend and her two-year-old with a butcher knife is executed
Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.
# capital-punishment - Monday 27 April, 2015
Australia's Bali Nine ringleaders will die tomorrow despite corruption claims
The pair’s sentencing judge allegedly asked for huge bribes in return for lighter penalties.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 25 March, 2015
Poll: Should countries be allowed to execute foreign citizens?
Two Australian citizens are currently facing this situation in Indonesia.
# capital-punishment - Monday 23 March, 2015
Fine Gael kick-starts its election preparations this week and Dublin will be VERY interesting
Selection conventions begin this week with lots to look out for in the capital alone.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
Utah politicians vote to bring back firing squads
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
# capital-punishment - Sunday 1 February, 2015
Saudi Arabia beheads murderer, the fifth execution under new king
King Salman took office on 23 January.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 23 December, 2014
Slow botched execution of Oklahoma murderer ruled constitutional by US court
Lawyers had argued that the execution of Clayton Lockett was “prolonged and agonising”
# capital-punishment - Thursday 18 December, 2014
Businesses want to make Dublin city safer - here's how
Better policing, an outreach team and tackling repeat offenders, mostly.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 4 September, 2014
Executioners in Oklahoma's botched execution couldn't inject the needle properly
They injected Clayton Lockett in the flesh instead of the vein and he died of a heart attack 45 minutes later.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 13 August, 2014
A history of capital punishment: 50 years since last hanging took place in the UK
The final executions – two men in separate gallows at 8am on 13 August 1964.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 15 May, 2014
News organisations take Missouri to court over lethal injection policy
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 8 May, 2014
After botched executions, Boston bombing suspect asks US to rule out death penalty
Federal death penalty cases are relatively rare in the United States, and are often reserved for the most heinous and notorious crimes.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 30 April, 2014
White House says botched execution wasn't humane, but maintains support for death penalty
President Barack Obama believes the death penalty doesn’t deter crime, but still supports it in some cases.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 24 April, 2014
The first 'double execution' in the US for 14 years will be carried out on Tuesday
The move comes as a court ruled that Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 8 April, 2014
Capital punishment, fining criminals and how to stop wasting water
What’s going on in Leinster House? Well, as you asked…
# capital-punishment - Monday 31 March, 2014
Dublin's number one problem - who will replace Stephen Cluxton this weekend?
Sean Currie came off the bench following Cluxton’s red card — but will he get the nod for Sunday’s game against Tyrone?
# capital-punishment - Saturday 23 November, 2013
Iraq executions top 150 this year so far
The level of death sentences carried out is at highest since 2008 – even though critics say that conviction procedures fall short of international standards.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 16 October, 2013
American confesses to murder as he is executed
William Happ raped and strangled Angie Crowley in 1986 but only confessed as he lay on execution table.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 18 June, 2013
The winners and losers from the Lions’ defeat to the Brumbies
Few players put their hand up in the Australian capital for Test match selection apart from the benchwarmers.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
Former death row inmates fight capital punishment
The World Congress against the death penalty opens today in Madrid, and some former inmates spoke about their thoughts on the issue.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Death penalty stats show increase in executions but drop in death sentences
The Amnesty International figures have revealed that while the number of people executed last year rose by two, there were 201 less death sentences handed down.
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