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- APRIL 3, 2017DEATH PENALTY
FLORIDA (USA): GOV. SCOTT TAKES AWAY 21 MORE MURDER CASES FROM ANTI-DEATH-PENALTY PROSECUTOR
Florida's Republican governor took 21 more first-degree murder cases away from a Democratic prosecutor who has said she will no longer seek the death penalty.
- APRIL 3, 2017New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
NEW ZEALAND: LAWYER URGES COURT TO BLOCK EXTRADITION OF MURDER SUSPECT TO CHINA
A lawyer for a man facing extradition to China on murder charges told New Zealand’s High Court that the government in Wellington could not rely on assurances from China that the man would not be tortured or receive the death penalty.
- APRIL 3, 2017DEATH PENALTY
Bahrain's king approved the amendment to Article 105(b) of Bahrain's constitution granting military courts the right to try civilians, according to the official BNA news agency.
Bahrain's king approved the amendment to Article 105(b) of Bahrain's constitution granting military courts the right to try civilians, according to the official BNA news agency.
- APRIL 3, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Gov. Scott takes away 21 more murder cases from anti-death-penalty prosecutor.
USA - Florida. Gov. Scott takes away 21 more murder cases from anti-death-penalty prosecutor.
- APRIL 3, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness
USA - 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness
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, 2017DEATH 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.