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# death-penalty - Monday 13 July, 2020
US judge halts federal executions hours before resumption
The US government was expected to appeal against the decision in a bid to carry out the first such execution since 2003.
# death-penalty - Thursday 9 July, 2020
Texas resumes executions after months-long shutdown due to Covid-19
Billy Joe Wardlow, convicted for murder, was given the lethal injection yesterday evening.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 20 May, 2020
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.
# death-penalty - Sunday 26 April, 2020
Saudi Arabia makes move to abolish death penalty for minors
The decision follows another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging.
# death-penalty - Monday 16 March, 2020
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.
# death-penalty - Thursday 22 August, 2019
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.
# death-penalty - Thursday 25 July, 2019
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.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
US mother asks that ex-husband who murdered their five children be spared death penalty
Timothy Jones Jr. was convicted of five counts of murder last week.
# death-penalty - Friday 12 April, 2019
Alabama had to call off an execution at the last minute after it was unable to lift a court order
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 3 April, 2019
'A human rights pariah': Brunei implements death by stoning for gay sex and adultery
The laws will make Brunei the first country in East or Southeast Asia to have a sharia penal code at the national level.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
Temporary reprieve for more than 700 death row inmates as California suspends executions
The west-coast state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, but 25 inmates have exhausted all of their appeals.
# death-penalty - Friday 8 February, 2019
Alabama executed a Muslim inmate and refused his request to have an imam in the chamber
The state had a Christian chaplain present instead.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 15 January, 2019
'Hostage politics': Campaigners condemn death penalty for Canadian citizen in China
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was convicted of drug smuggling.
# death-penalty - Thursday 6 December, 2018
Death row inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection, second inmate to do so in last two months
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
# death-penalty - Thursday 15 November, 2018
Texas executes Mexican man who killed his wife and two young children
Mexico and human rights groups have long maintained that Roberto Ramos was not informed of his legal rights.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 15 August, 2018
Man executed in Nebraska prison using untested lethal injection
Carey Dean Moore received a lethal concoction containing diazepam, fentanyl and potassium chloride.
# death-penalty - Friday 27 July, 2018
UK suspends cooperation with US over fears 'The Beatles' Isis suspects could be executed
The two suspected British jihadists were captured by US-backed Syrian forces.
# death-penalty - Friday 22 June, 2018
Indonesian cleric sentenced to death over terror attack
Four people died in the attack at a Starbucks café in 2016.
# death-penalty - Sunday 22 April, 2018
India approves death penalty for people convicted of raping children under 12
Violent crime against women has been on the rise in India despite tough laws enacted in 2013.
# death-penalty - Thursday 12 April, 2018
Almost 1,000 executions were recorded last year, including beheadings and lethal injections
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
# death-penalty - Friday 23 February, 2018
Death row prisoner who hired hitman to kill his family given last-minute reprieve
His father appealed for his life.
Florida killer yells 'murderers!' as he is put to death
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
# death-penalty - Saturday 20 January, 2018
'I can feel that': First US inmate executed in 2018 claimed drug used to kill him 'burned'
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
# death-penalty - Monday 2 October, 2017
Two women accused of assassinating North Korean leader's half brother plead not guilty at start of trial
Kim Jong-nam was killed by a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia last February.
# death-penalty - Friday 25 August, 2017
Man put to death using new lethal injection for racist murder
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
Last-minute appeals for mentally ill prisoner due to be executed tomorrow in the US
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
# death-penalty - Thursday 25 May, 2017
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.
# death-penalty - Sunday 30 April, 2017
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.
# death-penalty - Friday 28 April, 2017
Arkansas execution spree ends after another man is put to death
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 25 April, 2017
US state of Arkansas executes two prisoners in one night
This is the first time in 17 years in the US that a state has executed two people in the space of 24 hours.
# death-penalty - Monday 24 April, 2017
Arkansas rushes to execute prisoners this week - before lethal drugs expire
The US state’s stock of a controversial sedative will expire at the end of the month.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 18 April, 2017
Supreme Court blocks last-minute attempt by Arkansas to execute murderer
Justices declined an appeal from the state’s attorney general to lift a stay barring the execution of Don Davis.
# death-penalty - Monday 17 April, 2017
State of Arkansas to fight for permission to go ahead with 8 executions in 11 days
A federal judge issued stays for each of the inmates on Saturday.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
Death row inmates file lawsuit to prevent executions of eight men in 10 days
Arkansas has scheduled the executions in order to use its supply of a lethal injection drug before it expires.
# death-penalty - Saturday 25 March, 2017
US state plans to put eight men to death over 10-day period
Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.
# death-penalty - Sunday 19 March, 2017
'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
# death-penalty - Thursday 23 February, 2017
Court orders new trial for death row inmate who psychologist said was more dangerous because he is black
“Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are.”
# death-penalty - Wednesday 11 January, 2017
'Go straight to hell': Victims' families confront mass murderer Dylann Roof
Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 10 January, 2017
White supremacist Dylann Roof sentenced to death for killing nine black churchgoers
The US Justice Department said he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.
# death-penalty - Monday 9 January, 2017
Ohio obtains hundreds of vials of lethal injection drugs so executions can continue
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
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Poll: Have you been to a cinema since they re-opened?
CINEMAS IN IRELAND were permitted to re-open under Phase Three of re-opening the country on 29 June.
Dublin Airport said yesterday that last month was the dullest July in 34 years according to its Met Éireann station there so the weather certainly suited the cinema.
In recent weeks, some cinema chains across the country have begun to re-open their doors and – with many of the top film studios delaying the release of their latest blockbusters – many have been screening some classic movies to entice the audiences in.
And, as in many other situations, capacity in cinemas is now reduced due to the need for social distancing.
So, today we’re asking you: Have you been to a cinema since they re-opened?
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No cinema near me has re-opened (38)
Yes (36)
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Opinion: We've waited long enough - we must wipe out nuclear weapons for good
By International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Opinion: 'Lebanon needs help - or the consequences for the Middle East don't bear thinking about'
By Brid Kennedy
Yesterday’s explosion made a desperate situation worse, writes Bríd Kennedy of Concern.
Tribute: John Hume said setting up the first credit union in Northern Ireland was 'the thing I'm proudest of'
By Gerry Thompson
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