# death-penalty - Thursday 15 May, 2014
# Capital Punishment
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# Capital Punishment
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
# death-penalty - Thursday 8 May, 2014
# Plea
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# Plea
Federal death penalty cases are relatively rare in the United States, and are often reserved for the most heinous and notorious crimes.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 30 April, 2014
# Clayton Lockett
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# Clayton Lockett
President Barack Obama believes the death penalty doesn’t deter crime, but still supports it in some cases.
# death-penalty - Thursday 24 April, 2014
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
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.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
The bodies of the couple were not discovered until a year after the murder.
# death-penalty - Thursday 17 April, 2014
# Forgiven
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# Forgiven
The dramatic photographs show the public execution in Iran which was stopped at the last minute when the victim’s mother intervened.
# death-penalty - Thursday 27 March, 2014
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
Amnesty International say it is due to a large number of people being put to death in Iran and Iraq.
# death-penalty - Monday 24 March, 2014
# Military Crackdown
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# Military Crackdown
A court has sentenced the Morsi supporters to death, most of whom are on the run.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 12 February, 2014
# Court
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# Court
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if found guilty.
# death-penalty - Thursday 30 January, 2014
# Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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# Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (20) has pleaded not guilty.
# death-penalty - Saturday 18 January, 2014
# Opinion
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# Opinion
Jean-Claude Roger Mbebe died an untimely death last week, after his family allegedly prevented him from receiving necessary medical treatment. He had been previously been convicted of “homosexuality and attempted homosexuality” and imprisoned.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
# Trade Mission
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# Trade Mission
Enda Kenny has acknowledged Saudi Arabia’s election to the UN Human Rights Council, but the government won’t say if concerns about human rights issues are being raised with leaders there or in Qatar and UAE this week.
# death-penalty - Sunday 29 December, 2013
# India
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# India
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died this day last year, nearly two weeks after being attacked by a gang of men on a moving bus in Dehli.
# death-penalty - Saturday 23 November, 2013
# Human Rights
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# Human Rights
The level of death sentences carried out is at highest since 2008 – even though critics say that conviction procedures fall short of international standards.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
A judge in the US has questioned the use of the drug that was to be used to put the white supremacist serial killer to death.
# death-penalty - Friday 8 November, 2013
# Foreign Aid
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# Foreign Aid
The country donated €600,000 to the initiative between 2005 and 2011, when the decision was made to cease supporting it.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 16 October, 2013
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
William Happ raped and strangled Angie Crowley in 1986 but only confessed as he lay on execution table.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 28 August, 2013
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
Major Nidal Hasan was found guilty of the premeditated murder of 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009.
# death-penalty - Saturday 24 August, 2013
# China
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# China
The man took the 2-year-old child from her pram and threw her to the ground after her mother refused to make way for him to park his car.
# death-penalty - Friday 23 August, 2013
# Texas
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# Texas
Nidal Hasan had openly declared he carried out the killings, fuelling suspicions he is actively seeking the death penalty.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 7 August, 2013
# Nidal Hasan
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# Nidal Hasan
Lieutenant Colonel Kris Poppe urged a military judge to either prevent Major Nidal Hasan from representing himself at the high-profile trial or allow the court-appointed lawyers tasked with assisting him to be removed from the case.
# death-penalty - Monday 15 July, 2013
# Execution
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# Execution
The 52-year-old was already serving life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend when he bludgeoned a fellow prisoner to death in 1990.
# death-penalty - Saturday 13 July, 2013
# Long Wait
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# Long Wait
Questions emerging over guilt of world’s longest-serving condemned inmate.
# death-penalty - Friday 10 May, 2013
# Ohio Kidnap
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# Ohio Kidnap
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
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
Steven Smith may face death penalty in Ohio should intent to kill be proven.
# death-penalty - Saturday 16 March, 2013
# Your Say
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# Your Say
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
# Shooting
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# Shooting
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
# Egypt
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# Egypt
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
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# Egypt
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
# India
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# India
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
# India
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# India
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
# New Delhi
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# New Delhi
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
# Anti-gay Bill
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# Anti-gay Bill
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
# Capital Punishment
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# Capital Punishment
Amnesty International Ireland will collect signatures hoping to prevent the execution of Anthony Haynes in Texas this month.
# death-penalty - Monday 1 October, 2012
# Pakistan
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# Pakistan
Sections of the country’s blasphemy laws carry life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
# India
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# India
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
# Death Penalty
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# Death Penalty
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
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# Colorado
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
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# Iran
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 Penalty
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# Death Penalty
Warren Hill, who is intellectually disabled,was sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner.
