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AUGUST 6, 2017SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: HIGHER COURT SENTENCES DEATH, LIFE IMPRISONMENT TO CLERIC'S KILLERS
The High Court of Somali military has turned down appeal by al-Shabaab assassins convicted of killing a known cleric in the southern town of Baidoa in last June, Garowe Online reports.
- AUGUST 4, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Kentucky. Fayette County Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone has ruled that the use of the death penalty against defendants younger than age 21 is unconstitutional
USA - Kentucky. Fayette County Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone has ruled that the use of the death penalty against defendants younger than age 21 is unconstitutional
- AUGUST 4, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Indiana. U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence of John M. Stephenson
USA - Indiana. U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence of John M. Stephenson
- AUGUST 3, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Oregon. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld the reversal of the conviction of death row inmate Martin Allen Johnson
USA - Oregon. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld the reversal of the conviction of death row inmate Martin Allen Johnson
- AUGUST 2, 2017SyriaDEATH PENALTY
A prominent cyberactivist who was detained on the first anniversary of the 2011 uprising that sparked the Syrian civil war was secretly executed nearly two years ago, his widow said.
A prominent cyberactivist who was detained on the first anniversary of the 2011 uprising that sparked the Syrian civil war was secretly executed nearly two years ago, his widow said.
AUGUST 2, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROMOTING CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) launched today the activities of the training course on "Human Rights and promoting Criminal Justice" in Hurghada city,
AUGUST 2, 2017IsraelDEATH PENALTYISRAEL: KNESSET TO DEBATE NEW DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS BILL
A bill proposing an amendment to the Penal Law and the Anti-Terrorism Law, allowing the court to sentence to death terrorists who murdered innocent civilians will be added to the Knesset agenda soon by MK Nava Boker (Likud), Israel Hayom reported.
- AUGUST 1, 2017IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA EXECUTED NIGERIAN DESPITE CASE BEING UNRESOLVED, WATCHDOG SAYS
An official watchdog has found that Indonesia executed a Nigerian man last year while his case was unresolved, leading to renewed calls for a halt to a system holding hundreds of prisoners on death row.
AUGUST 1, 2017YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: MAN CONVICTED OF RAPING AND MURDERING THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL EXECUTED BY MACHINE GUN
A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl has been executed in public with a machine gun in Yemen.
AUGUST 1, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC IN FRONT OF LARGE CROWD
A prisoner by the name of Hossein Sarooki was hanged in public in the city of Juybar on murder charges.
JULY 29, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 8 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2013 PROTESTS
A criminal court in Egypt sentenced to death eight defendants in a case related to the deadly protests of 2013 that followed the military-led ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.
- JULY 28, 2017GhanaDEATH PENALTY
Court sentences 24-year woman to death for murder
28 July 2017: a 24-year old woman has been sentenced to death by a Kumasi High Court, presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson, for the murder of a little boy – the only child of his mother.