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# Capital Punishment

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# Capital Punishment
Stade Francais hammer 'shameful' Racing in Top 14 Paris derby
‘I don’t think we can do worse than that,’ said Racing’s Juan Imhoff.
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Dec 24th 2022, 6:47 PM
# Nagaenthran
Singapore executes disabled Malaysian man over drugs conviction
Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam had been on death row for more than a decade after being convicted of trafficking 1.5oz of heroin into the city state.
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Apr 27th 2022, 8:27 AM
# huntsville
Texas' oldest death row inmate, in solitary confinement for 20 years, is executed by lethal injection
Carl Buntion (78) shot and killed a police officer in 1990.
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Apr 22nd 2022, 7:54 AM
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# Capital Punishment
Virginia becomes 23rd US state to abolish the death penalty
The state had previously had the second highest number of executions in the US.
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Mar 24th 2021, 10:02 PM
# Indiana
Stay granted to inmate set to be first woman executed by US in decades
Lisa Montgomery killed a pregnant woman in order to steal her foetus in 2004.
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Jan 12th 2021, 7:44 AM
# Death Penalty
Missouri executes man whose last words were to maintain his innocence
Walter Barton was convicted of murder at a fifth trial in 2006 but maintained his innocence.
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May 20th 2020, 7:38 AM
# Capital Punishment
Man who murdered 19 people at disability care home in Japan is sentenced to death
The court ruled that the former employee of the facility deserved no leniency.
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Mar 16th 2020, 10:39 AM
# I-95 KILLER
Florida to execute serial killer who preyed on older, gay men along US east coast
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
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Aug 22nd 2019, 7:25 AM
# Capital Punishment
The US government is to start executions again and five murderers have already been given deathdays
The executions will be carried out by a single lethal injection.
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Jul 25th 2019, 9:39 PM
# Capital Punishment
Three French IS members sentenced to death in Iraq
The three men have 30 days to appeal the sentence.
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May 26th 2019, 4:00 PM
# Capital Punishment
US prisoner Tommy Arthur executed in Alabama after three decade legal battle
Arthur, who became known as the Houdini of death row, managed to evade his final sentence seven times.
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May 26th 2017, 4:33 PM
# Death Row
A US prisoner will face the death penalty tonight - for the eighth time
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
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May 25th 2017, 8:10 PM
# lauren patterson
Qatar will execute a man who killed a British teacher and burned her body in the desert
The death penalty is rarely used in Qatar.
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Apr 30th 2017, 3:25 PM
# Lethal Injection
Arkansas execution spree ends after another man is put to death
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
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Apr 28th 2017, 7:04 AM
# death peanalty
Arkansas wants to execute a record seven men in 11 days
The US state wants to do it before its access to an execution drug is stopped.
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Apr 10th 2017, 1:31 PM
# Capital Punishment
'If you have the death penalty, you can't be in the EU' - The simple message to Turkey
Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue
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Mar 19th 2017, 1:34 PM
# 1986 state paprs
Ireland's death penalty was a 'quaint throwback' but not everyone wanted to get rid of it
Thirty years ago, there were some political considerations.
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Jan 1st 2017, 8:00 AM
# Capital Punishment
Crime, murder and the end of the Civil War: The story of the first man hanged by the Irish Free State
Author Colm Wallace tells the story of soldier-turned-criminal William Downes.
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Dec 26th 2016, 10:00 PM
# Capital Punishment
It's through: Dublin City Council budget passes after filling €15 million shortfall
Commercial rates and social housing costs rise as parties call for a meeting with Minister Simon Coveney.
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Nov 14th 2016, 8:22 PM
# Capital Punishment
The average asking price for a house in Dublin city is now €314,311
And prices are rising across the country.
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Jul 4th 2016, 7:50 AM
# Capital Punishment
'Hanging is too mild for such a savage': The story of the youngest man executed by the Irish State
William O’Neill was executed four days after Christmas, on the 29 December 1927. He was 19 years old.
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Jun 11th 2016, 10:00 PM
# Capital Punishment
The new President of the Philippines says he will hang criminals and let snipers shoot to kill
He says citizens must learn to fear the law.
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May 16th 2016, 8:52 AM
# Capital Punishment
The man who lived: How one convicted murderer escaped Ireland's death penalty
Patrick Aylward, 63, was accused of burning a young child to death.
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Mar 28th 2016, 9:45 PM
# Lethal Injection
Convicted murderer Romell Broom survived one execution but he now faces a second
Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.
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Mar 16th 2016, 9:55 PM
# Capital Punishment
An Iranian billionaire has been sentenced to death
Babak Zanjani denied charges of money laundering.
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Mar 6th 2016, 4:36 PM
# Lethal Injection
Georgia has just executed its oldest death row inmate
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
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Feb 3rd 2016, 9:12 AM
# Lethal Injection
72-year-old man on death row in the US to be executed tomorrow
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
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Feb 1st 2016, 10:09 PM
# put to death
Triple child killer who murdered his daughter in petrol-filled house fire is executed
Raphael Holiday killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two half-sisters in Texas.
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Nov 19th 2015, 5:40 PM
# Death Penalty
Pakistan wants to hang a paraplegic wheelchair user
Abdul Basit has been given a last-minute reprieve after appeals by Human Rights groups.
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Sep 22nd 2015, 7:21 AM
# Lethal Injection
"He can rot in hell" - Man who killed girlfriend and her two-year-old with a butcher knife is executed
Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.
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Jun 10th 2015, 8:08 AM
# Death Sentence
Australia's Bali Nine ringleaders will die tomorrow despite corruption claims
The pair’s sentencing judge allegedly asked for huge bribes in return for lighter penalties.
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Apr 27th 2015, 10:59 AM
# Your Say
Poll: Should countries be allowed to execute foreign citizens?
Two Australian citizens are currently facing this situation in Indonesia.
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Mar 25th 2015, 9:03 AM
# Capital Punishment
Fine Gael kick-starts its election preparations this week and Dublin will be VERY interesting
Selection conventions begin this week with lots to look out for in the capital alone.
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Mar 23rd 2015, 1:45 PM
# Execution
Utah politicians vote to bring back firing squads
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
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Mar 11th 2015, 2:20 PM
# Capital Punishment
Saudi Arabia beheads murderer, the fifth execution under new king
King Salman took office on 23 January.
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Feb 1st 2015, 1:35 PM
# Clayton Lockett
Slow botched execution of Oklahoma murderer ruled constitutional by US court
Lawyers had argued that the execution of Clayton Lockett was “prolonged and agonising”
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Dec 23rd 2014, 3:25 PM
# capital ideas
Businesses want to make Dublin city safer - here's how
Better policing, an outreach team and tackling repeat offenders, mostly.
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Dec 18th 2014, 3:54 PM
# Death Penalty
Executioners in Oklahoma's botched execution couldn't inject the needle properly
They injected Clayton Lockett in the flesh instead of the vein and he died of a heart attack 45 minutes later.
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Sep 4th 2014, 9:09 PM
# In Pictures
A history of capital punishment: 50 years since last hanging took place in the UK
The final executions – two men in separate gallows at 8am on 13 August 1964.
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Aug 13th 2014, 7:50 AM
# Capital Punishment
News organisations take Missouri to court over lethal injection policy
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
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May 15th 2014, 11:08 PM
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