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APRIL 3, 2017DEATH PENALTYUSA: EXECUTIONS DISPROPORTIONATELY INVOLVE PRISONERS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abu
- APRIL 2, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCE ISSUED AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL MUSLIM PREACHER WAGDY GHONIM
A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against controversial Muslim preacher Wagdy Ghonim and two other men after they were convicted of inciting to murder security forces and Christians, Ahram Arabic website reported.
APRIL 2, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE IN BLOGGER RAJIB MURDER CASE
The High Court in Bangladesh upheld the trial court verdict that sentenced two people to death over the murder of blogger and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.
- APRIL 1, 2017ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions.
USA - Arkansas. Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions.
APRIL 1, 2017TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: BUNGE COMMITTEE TOUTS REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs has advised the government to review death penalty laws to allow death row prisoners who have been in prison for a long time to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 31, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence imposed of Ted Herring because of intellectual disability
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence imposed of Ted Herring because of intellectual disability
- MARCH 31, 2017DEATH PENALTY
MORE OHIO DEATH ROW PRISONERS EXONERATED OR REMOVED THAN EXECUTED
The 2016 volume of Attorney General Mike DeWine's "Capital Crimes Annual Report," released on Friday, said there have been 328 death sentences handed down in Ohio since 1981. Less than 20 % of those people have been put to death.
- MARCH 31, 2017South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
USA - South Carolina. Dylann Roof will plead guilty to state murder charges and will be sentenced to life without parole
USA - South Carolina. Dylann Roof will plead guilty to state murder charges and will be sentenced to life without parole
MARCH 31, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER
A sessions court in Pakistan sentenced a man to death for killing his father.
- MARCH 31, 2017OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. New report: More Ohio death row prisoners exonerated or removed than executed.
USA - Ohio. New report: More Ohio death row prisoners exonerated or removed than executed.
- MARCH 30, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTY
Man stoned to death for being gay by IS
30 March 2017: the Islamic State (IS) group militants executed a prisoner by stoning to death before throwing him off the roof of a high-rise building in Iraq's Mosul after discovering his sexuality.
- MARCH 30, 2017DelawareDEATH PENALTY
USA - Delaware. Ambrose Sykes was re-sentenced to life without parole.
USA - Delaware. Ambrose Sykes was re-sentenced to life without parole.