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SKorean serial killer commits suicide
Seoul :: South Korea | about 5 hours ago
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A South Korean serial killer on death row for murdering 13 people in a two-year killing spree committed suicide in his cell today, officials said. Jeong Nam-Gyu, 40, was found hanged with a rope made of plaited plastic bags in his prison cell south of...
Tags: serial killer, South Korea, Seoul, Presidents of South Korea, Kim Dae-jung, Capital punishment, Law Crime, Social Issues, Chung, Suicide, Criminology, Penology, Jeong Nam
AI urges Bangladesh to commute death sentences
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 day ago
Credibility Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh not to execute five convicted killers, former army officers, sentenced to death for the assassination of Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The international human rights watchdog said that the murder...
Tags: Mujibur Rahman, Hasina, Bangladesh, human rights, death sentenced, sheikh mujibur, Sufia Kamal Smrity Sangsad, Dhāka, Capital punishment, Criminology, Sheikh Hasina, Amnesty International, Jail Killing Day, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh Liberation War, Social Issues, Law Crime, Meghalaya, Shillong, Agatha Sangma, Nationalist Congress Party, Tura, P. A. Sangma, Politics, Ziaur Rahman, Rahman, Sheikh rehana, Religion Belief, Sufia Kamal, Ekushey Padak, Independence Day Award, Bangla Academy Award
Charter of Rights debate ends - Legislation to sit for three months before vote
Justice :: IL :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Representatives on Tuesday closed the debate on the Charter of Rights, paving the way for a landmark vote on the proposed battery of constitutional amendments. The bill passed committee stage with five amendments. It will now sit on the table of Parliament...
Tags: Justice, Prime minister, Politics, Bruce Golding, Capital punishment, Penology, Social Issues, Law Crime, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Westminster system, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Caribbean Court of Justice
Russian court extends moratorium on death penalty
Constitutional Court on Thursday effectively abolished the death penalty, extending indefinitely a 13-year-old moratorium on capital punishment. Cars drive by the headquarters of Russia's Constitutional Court in St. Petersburg in this December 23, 2007...
Tags: Alexander Demianchuk, death penalty, causes, Russia, Moscow, Thursday, Alexander the Great, Judiciary of Russia, Capital punishment, Capital punishment in Russia, Human rights, Russian law, Law Crime, Russian, Social Issues
Letters: Close death row
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility There's a deeply troubling pattern of US death-row prisoners waiving appeals after years in "lockdown" cells facing execution ( The condemned cells of Texas , 16 November). Rather than pressing ahead with killing prisoners who give up, the US authorities...
Tags: Troy Davis, death row, United Kingdom, London, Capital punishment, Penology, Social Issues, Law Crime
9/11 trial a death penalty test for NYC juries
Cuba :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility There have been no death sentences here since the 2007 case, not even in prosecutions involving ruthless drug kingpins and gruesome killings.Since the federal death penalty was re-established in 1988, juries nationwide have imposed the ultimate penalty...
Tags: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, death penalty, NEW YORK New York, Cuba, Capital punishment, Murder, Trials related to the September 11 attacks, Jury nullification, Legal procedure, Criminal law, Jury, Law Crime, Social Issues
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Moratorium on Executions
Moscow :: Russia | 2 days ago
Credibility Russia ’s Constitutional Court extended the country’s moratorium on the death penalty on Thursday, though it stopped short of fully abolishing capital punishment. In a statement , the Constitutional Court argued that permitting capital punishment would...
Tags: Russian, death penalty, Russia Kills, capital punishment, Constitutional Court, Europe, penalty ban, european convention, Valery Zorkin, Russia, Moscow, National anthems, National Anthem of Russia, Interfax, Religion Belief, Aleksandr Kolchak, Admiral, Kolchak, Drama films, Russian films, White Russians, Penology, Russian law, UN moratorium on the death penalty, Capital punishment in Russia, Human rights, Criminology, Social Issues, Law Crime, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Penalty
Man executed for abduction-slaying of Texas woman
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Texas A convicted killer who volunteered for execution but in recent weeks changed his mind has been put to death in Texas. Thirty-year-old Danielle Simpson received lethal injection Wednesday evening for the abduction-slaying of 84-year-old Geraldine...
Tags: Texas, Danielle Simpson, Huntsville, Abduction!, Capital punishment, Criminology, Penology
Clarification: Death Penalty-Ohio story
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The story should have made clear that one of the states, Nebraska, is switching from electrocution to injection and that its proposal to use a three-drug method still must be approved. Ohio — In a story Nov. 14, The Associated Press reported that lethal...
Tags: The Associated Press, Death Penalty-Ohio, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Seattle, Electric chair, Lethal injection, Nebraska, Capital punishment, Social Issues
EU wants Russia’s modernization
Stockholm :: Sweden | 3 days ago
Credibility EU wants Russia’s modernization Published 19 November, 2009, 03:11 Europe is interested in the modernization and democratization of Russia, says Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. Speaking to RT, he noted, though, that President Medvedev’s statements...
Tags: EU-Russia, EU Welcomes Russia, Russian, Dmitry Medvedev, Stockholm, European Commission, russia summit, human rights, Ukraine, presidency medvedev, Sweden, Penology, Jury, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Capital punishment, Criminology, Law Crime, Social Issues, European Union, Medvedev, Foreign relations of Russia, Russia￢ﾀﾓUkraine gas dispute, Politics, Gazprom, Russia, Future enlargement of the European Union, Ukraine and the European Union, Treaty of Lisbon, Federalism, Democratization, Carl Bildt, Personae non gratae, Swedish nobility
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