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| Iran: Gilan Mohammadi and Gholamali Eskandari acquitted and released from Death Penalty News |
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A man and a woman were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October following their acquittal in a retrial after their convictions for "adultery while being married" were quashed by the Head of the Judiciary. Gilan Mohammadi and Gholamali Eskandari had been held in Esfahan Central Prison since 2003. They were sentenced to death by stoning probably in 2005 or 2006. Their sentences had been confirmed by the Supreme Court some time in 2008. In January 2009 human rights defenders and lawyers Mohammad Mostafaie and Shadi Sadr attempted to become their legal representatives but were prevented from doing so by several prison and judicial officials. In an interview printed in the 15 January issue of the Iranian newspaper 'Etemad-e Melli, Shadi Sadr, said that the action of the judicial officials in Esfahan was unlawful, and that these two people had been denied their right to legal representation. She said that she and her colleague intended to complain about thi ...
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| Case Against Alleged Fort Hood Shooter to Test Military Justice System from Death Penalty News |
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Lawyers involved in the court-martial of the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, will shoulder incredible pressure from inside and outside the military to get it right, experts on military law say. And they'll have to do it while trying to find an unbiased jury and managing a complex and high-profile capital trial at the same time overlapping congressional investigations may be under way. Even under normal circumstances, a court-martial is a "real drain" on the military and needs to be handled expeditiously, said John O'Connor, a partner at Washington's Steptoe& Johnson and a former U.S. Marine Corps prosecutor. For the lawyers, moving fast will also have a practical benefit: The military "transfers people all of the time, and if you wait a long time until trial, witnesses may be far flung," O'Connor said. The 1st moves began last week when Maj. Nidal Hasan was formally charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder -- the 1st step in the court-martial process. ...
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| Virginia death-row inmate scheduled to be electrocuted from Death Penalty News |
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If carried out, next week's scheduled execution of Larry Bill Elliott will be by electrocution, the option he selected before his Oct. 5 execution date, which was delayed by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. "The attorney general's office has advised us that no new choice is to be given. Elliott's choice remains electrocution," said Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections. Virginia death-row inmates have been able to choose between lethal injection or electrocution since Jan. 1, 1995. Since then, the state has administered 76 lethal injections and four electrocutions. Traylor said that if Elliott changes his mind, he can request lethal injection and the request would be forwarded to the governor's office. However, a Kaine spokesman said yesterday that Elliott made his choice more than 15 days before his scheduled execution as required by state law. Yesterday, Elliott filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has a clemency petition pending before Kaine. ...
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| Adjusting to life after death row from Death Penalty News |
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John Thompson (pictured) spent 14 years on death row for crimes he did not commit. Convicted of killing New Orleans hotel executive Ray Liuzza, and for a carjacking weeks later, he was preparing to be sent to his death at the notorious Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana - the largest maximum security prison in the United States. After six execution dates, John had exhausted all his appeals. His seventh date - 22 May 1999 - was to be his last. In one final twist, a new investigator uncovered some previously lost evidence. After a retrial, John was freed in 2003. It was the start of another struggle - surviving in the outside world. It was a struggle which has led John to found a new charity helping former death row inmates: Resurrection After Exoneration. He told BBC World Service's Outlook programme his story. "I was glad to be coming home. I was overwhelmed with the thought of me having my freedom, but at the same time I was scared to death because I didn't know what I w ...
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| Hire a Lawyer, Avoid the Death Penalty from Death Penalty News |
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If you hire a lawyer, the chances are you won't be sentenced to death in Houston. University of Denver Criminologist Scott Phillips reviewed 504 capital indictments over three decades in Harris County, Texas, and found that defendants who hired lawyers for the entire trial were never sentenced to death -- and were more likely to be acquitted. The results of his study, published over the summer in the Journal of Criminal Law& Criminology, are truly stunning. Since nearly all defendants facing the death penalty in Harris County were poor, Phillips argues that his results further demonstrate the arbitrariness of capital punishment. If a defendant's family and community is able to pool resources to hire an attorney, the paid attorney might be better equipped to investigate a case or to bring bargaining power to the table against a district attorney. He makes clear that his findings aren't an indictment of appointed attorneys, but of the system that straddles those attorneys with th ...
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| There is no humane way to execute from Death Penalty Thailand |
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Following a news item posted below concerning a failed execution in Ohio, USA: Ohio plans execution method untried on prisoners COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Ohio announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method which has never been tried on prisoners. Under the three-drug method, the first drug makes the prisoner unconscious, the second paralyzes him and the third stops his heart ? a process that death penalty opponents argue is excruciatingly painful if the first drug doesn't work. The single-drug technique amounts to an overdose of anesthesia. Death penalty opponents hailed the decision as making executions more humane but expressed reservations about using such an untested method. The same drug is commonly used to euthanize pets and in some parts of Europe has been used in assisted suicides. Richard Dieter, director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, noted the new practice would essentially be an experiment performed on ...
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| crime de gurre à Falluja -endorse the petition please - signez la pétition svp - merci from Irakiennes |
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Crime de guerre à Fallujah http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects En septembre dernier, sur 170 enfants nés au principal l?hôpital de Fallujah, 24% sont morts la première semaine, ¾ présentaient des difformités (pas de tête, deux têtes, un seul ?il, pas de membres). En 2002, dans le même hôpital, sur 530 naissances, 6 bébés étaient morts, un seul présentait des difformités. Des médecins irakiens et britanniques mettent cause l?utilisation de phosphore blanc et de munitions à l?uranium appauvri utilisée lors des bombardements de la ville en 2004 par l?armée d?occupation. Ils demandent aux Nations unies d?ouvrir une enquête indépendante. Une pétition a été lancée pour soutenir cette initiative : http://www.petitiononline.com/hdcif/petition.html Signature: http://www.petitiononline.com/hdcif/petition-sign.html
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| Military to Seek Death Penalty in Fort Hood Shooting from Death Penalty News |
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FORT HOOD, Texas?Military prosecutors have filed 13 charges of premeditated murder against Maj. Nidal M. Hasan (pictured) in last week's shooting at a Texas military base. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty in the case, according to a military official familiar with the matter. Christopher Grey, a spokesman for Army investigators, said Thursday that Maj. Hasan was facing 13 charges of premeditated murder under military law in the Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood, which killed 13 people. Mr. Grey said investigators from the Army's Criminal Investigation Command and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are still probing possible motives for the rampage. But the decision to file murder charges against Maj. Hasan in military court, rather than in a civilian one, reflects investigators' growing belief that the suspect acted alone and without assistance from foreign or domestic terrorist groups. Maj. Hasan's lawyer, John P. Galligan, couldn't immediately be reached for comment. ...
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| Jim Ryan apologizes for wrongfully putting 2 men on Death Row in Nicarico killing from Death Penalty News |
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GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan issued his first outright apology Thursday for wrongfully putting two men on Death Row instead of prosecuting the real killer of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. DuPage County?s former top prosecutor made his statement after a jury Wednesday sentenced Brian Dugan to death for the Nicarico murder, which Ryan incorrectly had blamed on Rolando Cruz and Alex Hernandez. Both men were later exonerated. ?In the Cruz-Hernandez cases, prosecutors, detectives and police officers acted in good faith and still came up with the wrong result,? Ryan said. ?In the Cruz-Hernandez cases, the system and I failed to achieve a just outcome. And for that I am sorry.? Ryan, a former Illinois attorney general, went on to say that if elected governor, he would not lift the moratorium that former Gov. George Ryan imposed after commuting the sentences of 156 Death Row inmates to life in prison in one of his last acts in office during 2003. ?If I am elected governor, I will ...
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| U.S.: Deadly mistakes merit change from Death Penalty News |
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Many believe murder is unacceptable and inhumane. Wrong. Many Americans support the death penalty. Many believe lethal injection is a painless, effective way to justify a murder. Wrong, again. Lethal injection was certainly not painless nor effective for Ohio death-row inmate Romell Broom last September. This man's horribly botched execution should not only raise the question of whether the state should proceed with further executions but should ask every state whether we should be sentencing people to death at all. A recent report by the Death Penalty Information Center cited that Broom grimaced and winced with pain while Ohio's execution team plunged the needle into his body for nearly 2 hours. They repeatedly went back to already-bruised areas and even hit a bone with the needle. When Broom was not covering his face with both hands, sobbing, he was helping executioners try to find a good vein by massaging his arms and pointing to veins. After the Ohio governor, Ted Strickland, o ...
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