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A Georgia prisoner who tried to kill himself last week by slashing his arms and throat with a razor blade was executed Monday night amid heightened security for the 1998 murders of a trucking company owner and his two children.
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After she was strapped on to the execution table, Teresa Lewis asked the warden at Greensville Correctional Center if her stepdaughter was in attendance.
Then she told...
made popular Sep 24 2010
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the breathtaking gall to criticize other countries for their faults when his country is turning into one of the most...
made popular Sep 24 2010
The sale of Palestinian land to Israelis is punishable by death, a Palestinian Authority court ruled on Sunday, in what Palestinian officials are saying is a necessary...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Teresa Lewis Will Be the First U.S. Woman Executed in the Last Five Years
Teresa Lewis is currently on death row for paying two men to kill her husband Julian Clifton...
made popular Sep 8 2010
We left our killing of witches back in the late 1600s, with the Salem Witch Trials the most infamous of all. But there are certain countries in the Middle East which...
made popular Aug 19 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian widow and mother of two children was to be stoned to death for allegedly committing adultery. After justified...
made popular Aug 4 2010
Jackson “Jack” Attuso, 8, was on a bike ride with his family in St. Francisville, Louisiana last week. He’d somehow become separated from his mother...
made popular Jun 16 2010
Rodrigo Paniagua Jr. had rules for the pregnant mother of his two little girls: no makeup outside the house, no skirts, no drinks with friends — and, most of all, no...
made popular Jun 11 2010
Certain governments are taking a much tougher stance on suspected al-Qaeda terrorists rather than foolishly thinking, like some, that jail time and rehabilitation will...
made popular May 26 2010
While some are praising the death sentence for the Mumbai killer Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, others are not. But not for the usual moral or ethical reasons. For some, it...
made popular May 19 2010
Five people were awarded the death penalty by a Karnal sessions court on Tuesday for the honour killing of a young couple who had married in 2007 against the wishes of...
made popular Mar 30 2010
ndia’s anti-hijacking laws are set to become more stringent with the government deciding to include death penalty as punishment for hijackers.
“The Union...
made popular Mar 20 2010
There have been heated debates on gays in Kenya and Africa at large and not even one has been in favour of these people and in most cases they have been condemned and...
made popular Feb 13 2010
Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj has announced a moratorium on the death penalty, and called for the punishment to be abolished.
Mr Elbegdorj told parliament that...
made popular Jan 15 2010
TWO men who killed an old woman in Bushenyi District on suspicion that she was bewitching them are to hang, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Paul Kakubi, 38, a...
made popular Jan 4 2010
I’ve always believed that if you break the law, you suffer the consequences. And the fact you happen to be a foreigner in a foreign land shouldn’t exempt...
made popular Dec 29 2009
Some people are opposed to the death penalty, but in cases of mass murder, and when there is no doubt that someone committed the crime, there is no reason not to rid...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Homosexuals should not be killed but instead imprisoned for life, religious leaders have suggested.
Making their input in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 yesterday,...
made popular Oct 30 2009
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A sit-in was held last Tuesday in Rabat for the abolition of death penalty. The rally, under the banner “the abolition of the death penalty to preserve the right...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of...
made popular Oct 15 2009
Luzira prison is Uganda’s major prison where all hardcore criminals enjoy their sentences. You can never expect children to share the same environment, more so,...
made popular Sep 19 2009
Four days ago, police were called to an alley in Los Angeles. There, they found a suitcase covered in a dumpster. Inside the suitcase was the nude body of model,...
made popular Aug 24 2009
Three persons, including a woman, were on Thursday sentenced to death by a special court for their involvement in the 2003 blasts at the iconic Gateway of India
made popular Aug 6 2009
This killer thug will receive a slap on the wrist:
The Jewish youth, Vitaly Sayenko, 18, made a decision to kill Karuwani for no other reason than that Karuwani was...
made popular Jun 27 2009
It is estimated that 37 death row inmates were executed in US 2008 alone. However, none of their organs was donated or used. Also, considering the fact that there are...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Kenyans are locked in serious debates wondering whether the government should step in and assist five Kenyans who have been sentenced to death in China after they were...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Europeans look down upon America’s death penalty as a reflection of America’s less sophisticated ways in contrast to execution-free Europe.
Not only...
made popular Mar 13 2009
Human rights watchdogs and some Jordanian activists have been working towards the elimination of death penalty from Jordanian law book, knowing that since March 2006,...
made popular Mar 12 2009
Religion is a very sensitive issue the world over, especially Islam. The supreme leader, Mufti Shaban Mubajje, has been quoted in the media to be pro- death penalty. He...
made popular Jan 29 2009
I see the words “Is death penalty pro-life?” and I am overwhelmed by raw emotion; anger, despair, sorrow, hopelessness, and confusion. I am not thinking of...
made popular Dec 5 2008
When the parents of the three children 17 year old Pooja (name changed) her 9 year old sister and 4 year old brother Rahul (name changed) slept peacefully little did...
made popular Oct 22 2008
A month ago, the Iranian parliament voted in favour of a draft bill, entitled “Islamic Penal Code”, which would codify the death penalty for any male Iranian who...
made popular Oct 14 2008
Capital punishment, more popularly known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. The discussion regarding the death...
made popular Jul 28 2008
International divide: Mexico rejoices the World Court's verdict on Texas executing Mexican nationals
According to El Norte, after months of intense review,the World Court and Congress’ Howard Berman and Zoe Lofgren submitted their resolution. Close sources of the...
made popular Jul 17 2008
The Supreme Court of United States declared on Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the ‘years of long anguish’ for...
made popular Jun 26 2008
The US Supreme Court has struck down a law that would have allowed the execution of someone convicted of raping a child.
made popular Jun 25 2008
In a move that could bring some reprieve to Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan government on Saturday announced plans to commute the death sentences of...
made popular Jun 21 2008
Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular...
made popular Jun 21 2008
New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people...
made popular Apr 30 2008
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