Pakistani professor sentenced to death for blasphemy
Junaid Hafeez was arrested in 2013 for allegedly posting derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammed online.
Junaid Hafeez was arrested in 2013 for allegedly posting derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammed online.
In his last words, Mark Soliz apologised “for the grief and the pain that I caused”.
The west-coast state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, but 25 inmates have exhausted all of their appeals.
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
The country’s highest court last week overturned Bibi’s conviction and ordered her release
Zagorski was sentenced to death for the 1983 murders of two men.
Carey Dean Moore received a lethal concoction containing diazepam, fentanyl and potassium chloride.
No vein could be found to administer the lethal injection to 61-year-old Doyle Hamm.
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
Alva Campbell was sentenced to death for gunning down a teenager he held hostage.
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
The state’s remaining supply of one of the drugs runs out tomorrow.
Actor Johnny Depp has been one of thousands of protesters to demonstrate against capital punishment.
A federal judge issued stays for each of the inmates on Saturday.
Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
“His request was declined as alcohol is a contraband item…”
Amnesty International is calling for the scheduled hanging to be stopped.
The court said it granted the request “in order for this court to give fair consideration” to his claims.
His victim was just 15 years old when she was murdered.
Richard Glossip was convicted of murder after the man who confessed to the crime claimed Glossip hired him to do it.
The brothers are trying to come to terms with the changes that occurred in the outside world while they were on death row.
New DNA evidence proved the two men were not guilty of the murder in 1983. They spent three decades in prison.
“When we said your death sentence will be implemented, he said, ‘What death sentence? I will not be sentenced to death.’”
“They had every intention of executing me for something I didn’t do … I shouldn’t have sat on death row for 30 years.”
Kelly Gissendaner was due to be put to death last night.
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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.
The 64-year-old was freed following new information which showed he was not present at the murder he was accused of.
The unwanted dogs at Monaghan Pound are just one example of the problem across the country, which became particularly worrying around Christmas time.
Kerry Max Cook, who spent 22 years in prison until he was proven innocent, will share his story with youth outreach movement Soar tomorrow night.
Everyone’s talking about the shooting in south Dublin, David Norris’s potty mouth and garda recruitment.
Questions emerging over guilt of world’s longest-serving condemned inmate.
Former inmates are among those gathering to fight capital punishment at a world congress event that begins today, but Kirstin Houle from Texas says theirs is a daily struggle they know they will win.
The World Congress against the death penalty opens today in Madrid, and some former inmates spoke about their thoughts on the issue.
Taiwanese man wrongfully on death row is one of 12 the human rights abuse cases that Amnesty International wants to highlight – and get help with – before 2012 is out.
Oklahoma executed a convicted murderer who referenced the presidential race in his final words last night.
Amnesty International Ireland will collect signatures hoping to prevent the execution of Anthony Haynes in Texas this month.
Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago.