# Death Penalty

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Egypt: 21 people sentenced to death over Port Said football disaster

A policeman has reportedly been killed in violence in the coastal city of Port Said following the announcement of the verdicts.

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Jan 26th 2013, 9:30 AM

# India

Indian panel recommends tougher sex crime sentences

India’s sex crime laws were being reviewed following the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi.

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Jan 23rd 2013, 2:25 PM

# India

Delhi gang-rape suspects to be charged in court

Five men will stand accused of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a young female student, who died at the weekend from the horrific injuries inflicted on her during an ordeal.

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Jan 3rd 2013, 7:48 AM

# New Delhi

Indian gang-rape victim recounts ordeal

The newspaper reports about the victim’s statement to police come as authorities ban related protests in New Delhi.

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Dec 23rd 2012, 9:07 AM

# anti-gay bill

Labour LGBT: Ugandan 'kill the gays' bill must be stopped

Fears have been raised over Uganda vowing to pass an extreme homophobic law that includes a provision prescribing the death penalty for gay people.

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Nov 13th 2012, 3:51 PM

# Capital Punishment

Petitions in three Irish cities to mark World Death Penalty Day

Amnesty International Ireland will collect signatures hoping to prevent the execution of Anthony Haynes in Texas this month.

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Oct 10th 2012, 7:15 AM

# Pakistan

Muslims accused of blasphemy after attack on Hindu temple in Pakistan

Sections of the country’s blasphemy laws carry life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

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Oct 1st 2012, 5:17 PM

# India

Death penalty confirmed for sole surviving Mumbai attacks gunman

Mohammad Kasab is expected to lodge a final appeal for clemency with the new President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

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Aug 29th 2012, 1:45 PM

# Death Penalty

Texas executes convicted killer despite claims of low IQ

Lawyers for 54-year-old Marvin Wilson had argued that he should have been exempt from capital punishment because he had an IQ of 61.

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Aug 8th 2012, 8:51 AM

# Colorado

Colorado shooting suspect charged with 24 counts of murder

The 24-year-old suspect has been formally charged with a total of 142 counts over the deadly shootings at a Colorado cinema earlier this month.

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Jul 30th 2012, 9:04 PM

# Iran

Iran to execute four people convicted over major bank fraud

Scandal centred on bank loans through allegedly forged or illegally-obtained letters of credit to buy several state companies.

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Jul 30th 2012, 3:00 PM

# Death Penalty

Death row prisoner given reprieve two hours before execution

Warren Hill, who is intellectually disabled,was sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner.

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Jul 24th 2012, 12:23 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you agree with the death penalty?

Which is more appropriate, a death penalty or a life in prison without parole? Have your say…

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Apr 24th 2012, 10:09 AM

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The 9 at 9 Good morning! Here’s nine things you really should know before 9am…

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Apr 24th 2012, 8:32 AM

# Capital Punishment

Californians to vote on measure to abolish death penalty

Supporters of the measure argue it could save the state millions of dollars. No one has been executed in the state since 2006.

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Apr 24th 2012, 7:29 AM

# Gaza

Gaza executions 'unlawful' says UN

Human rights office says death sentences were not approved by the Palestinian president as required.

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Apr 20th 2012, 10:24 AM

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The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…

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Mar 27th 2012, 8:34 AM

# Death Penalty

China is the world's 'number one executioner' - Amnesty report

A new report says that the number of countries who have the death penalty is declining but there has been a surge in the number of executions in the Middle East.

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Mar 27th 2012, 7:15 AM

# Belarus

Belarus executes men convicted of subway bombing

The EU’s foreign policy chief has voiced concerns over the trial of the men convicted for the April 2011 bomb which killed 15 people in Minsk.

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Mar 18th 2012, 11:55 AM

# Uganda

Controversial anti-gay bill reintroduced to Ugandan parliament

The bill’s progress slowed after international outcry over the bill which carries severe penalties for homosexual acts.

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Feb 7th 2012, 5:27 PM

# Death Penalty

Woman beheaded in Saudi Arabia for 'sorcery'

Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International Ireland has called the killing an “appalling and sickening act”.

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Dec 12th 2011, 7:48 PM

# China

South African woman executed in China

Janice Bronwyn Linden was executed after being convicted for smuggling drugs into China – despite an appeal for clemency from the South African president.

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Dec 12th 2011, 3:18 PM

# Execution

Ohio executes man who killed three sleeping sons

Although attorneys argued that Brooks was a paranoid schizophrenic and not mentally competent to be tried for murder, he was executed by lethal injection for the 1982 killings of his three sons today in Ohio.

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Nov 15th 2011, 9:27 PM

# Iran

Iranian pastor "faces death sentence for rape"

Youcef Nadarkhani faces a death sentence – but for rape, and not for converting from Islam to Christianity, it is now being claimed.

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Oct 3rd 2011, 12:38 PM

# Troy Davis

'Don't let me die in vain': Executed Troy Davis remembered at memorial

Supporters have gathered for Davis’ funeral today, after his execution for a murder he insisted he did not commit.

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Oct 1st 2011, 4:47 PM

# Troy Davis

Troy Davis executed by lethal injection

The 42-year-old spent more than two decades on death row for a crime he always maintained he did not commit. His request for a polygraph test before his execution was denied.

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Sep 22nd 2011, 8:30 AM

# Death Row

Troy Davis' final appeal denied, execution to go ahead

After spending more than two decades on death row, Georgia inmate Troy Davis is to be killed by lethal injection today – despite Amnesty International insisting that the evidence against him has “fallen apart”.

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Sep 21st 2011, 8:39 AM

# Texas

Texas execution halted, questions about role of race in sentencing

The execution of a man in Texas has been halted after his legal team produced the testimony of a psychologist from the original trial – in which it was said that black people were “more likely” to commit violence.

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Sep 16th 2011, 9:59 AM

# Death Penalty

British MPs may debate death penalty reintroduction

Capital punishment debate petition has been generating support online, but needs 100,000 signatures before being considered for House of Commons debate.

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Aug 4th 2011, 11:37 AM

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The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…

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Aug 4th 2011, 8:28 AM

# India

Calls for India to cancel first hangings since 2004

Human rights group Amnesty International has urged the Indian government call off two planned executions, which would be the first to occur in the country for seven years.

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May 31st 2011, 11:32 AM

LIVE

Denmark to lobby US states over use of drugs for death penalty

Minister says she will approach US states which use Danish-made drugs in their lethal injections.

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Apr 14th 2011, 8:43 PM

# Death Penalty

Death penalty abolished in Illinois

Governor commutes death sentences of over a dozen inmates and abolishes the state’s death penalty.

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Mar 9th 2011, 7:30 PM

# Pakistan

Pakistan urged to drop blasphemy charges against 17 year old

The schoolboy faces death after allegedly scribbling blasphemous comments on an exam paper.

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Feb 3rd 2011, 4:05 PM

# Iran

Ashtiani's death sentence suspended, says human rights campaigner

Reports suggest death sentence of Iranian woman condemned for adultery and the murder of her husband was never actually confirmed.

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Jan 17th 2011, 8:07 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you really need to know this morning: Water, water everywhere; a 31-year-old is injured in a Clondalkin shooting, and a drop in 2010 tourism.

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Dec 29th 2010, 9:05 AM