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Wash. prepares for first execution since 2001
In a state where executions are uncommon, Cal Coburn Brown's lethal injection on Friday will be the first time since 2001 that Washington has carried out its capital punishment. Barring a last-minute stay of execution from the state or U.S. Supreme Court, the... Washington - Supreme Court of the United States - Capital punishment - Stay of execution - Crime and Justice
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Jamaica moves to reverse ruling on dealt penalty
Jamaica is moving to reverse a British appeals court ruling that bans it and other Caribbean nations from hanging a jailhouse inmate who is on death row for more than five years, as the crime-ridden regional nations move to resume capital punishment and as calls for resumption grow louder.
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Wash. prepares for first execution since 2001
YAKIMA, Wash. -- In a state where executions are uncommon, Cal Coburn Brown's death on Friday will be the first time since 2001 that Washington has carried out its capital punishment. Barring a last-minute stay of execution from the state or U.S. Supreme Court, the 52-year-old will become the first death row inmate in the state to die by a one-drug method of execution, a recently changed ...
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Wash. prepares for first execution since 2001
In a state where executions are uncommon, Cal Coburn Brown's lethal injection on Friday will be the first time since 2001 that Washington has carried out its capital punishment.
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Wash. prepares for first execution since 2001
In a state where executions are uncommon, Cal Coburn Brown's death on Friday will be the first time since 2001 that Washington has carried out its capital punishment.
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Iran woman's stoning suspended after global outcry
Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world. Iran - Stoning - Adultery - Middle East - Capital punishment
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Death sentence suspended for Iranian woman
TEHRAN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The death sentence for an Iranian women convicted of murder and adultery was suspended, the Iranian foreign ministry announced Wednesday. Iran - Capital punishment - Murder - Middle East - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Iran delays death by stoning sentence
TEHRAN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The death sentence by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery and murder has been suspended, a spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said. Iran - Stoning - Capital punishment - Adultery - Middle East
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The Death Penalty for Being You
An interview with Jeff Sharlet, who has covered political efforts to "eradicate homosexuality from uganda" Jeff Sharlet - Uganda - Capital punishment - Homosexuality - Africa
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Seven Koranic teachers convicted for making pupils beg
A Dakar court sentenced seven Koranic teachers to six months probation Wednesday for forcing pupils to beg, a first in the majority Muslim country which recently banned begging in public places.
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Washington state prepares for first execution in nine years
Barring a last-minute stay of execution from the state or U.S. Supreme Court, 52-year-old Cal Coburn Brown will become the first death row inmate in the state to die by a one-drug method of execution, a recently changed protocol from a three-drug cocktail
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EU decries 'barbaric' plans to stone Iranian woman
The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it "barbaric" and an Iranian spokesman saying it's about punishing a criminal and not a human rights issue. European Union - Stoning - Capital punishment - Iran - Paris
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EU welcomes suspension of Iranian woman's stoning sentence
The EU has welcomed Iran's decision to suspend a sentence of death by stoning for a woman charged with adultery. In Sweden, the Iranian ambassador was summoned to Stockholm to assert the government's concerns.
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Death penalty not in play in Westmont murder
A Westmont man will not face the death penalty if convicted of strangling his estranged wife the morning before their daughter's 5th birthday party, DuPage County prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Pa. death penalty exists in name only
HARRISBURG — Last week Gov. Ed Rendell signed three more death warrants — for an Allegheny County man who killed his wife and teenage son nearly a decade ago, the murderer of a Reading police officer, and Jerry Chambers, who is on death row for the slaying of a 3-year-old Philadelphia girl who was beaten and left to die, trapped between a bed and a radiator.
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