Nimr was among 47 prisoners put to death on Jan.
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In that time, 1,423 people have been put to death.
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We are put to death, figuratively and too often literally.
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Berget is scheduled to be put to death between Oct.
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The remaining 27 were put to death by lethal injection.
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Both called for certain malefactors to be put to death.
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His client, Tom Robinson, will probably be put to death.
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He is the first inmate put to death since 2013.
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More than 4,000 people were put to death by electrocution.
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Willingham was put to death on February 19893, 21989. 221.
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But he says Sutton should not be put to death.
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Robert Sparks, 45, was put to death by lethal injection.
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Butts was put to death in 2018 for the murder.
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Only last year, 13 prisoners were put to death in Texas.
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Pakistan has put to death an estimated 300 people since then.
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No. 7, Cramer said zombie companies must be put to death.
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He was scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m.
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All the other jurors thought he should be put to death.
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Nathaniel Woods, 43, will be put to death at 6 p.m.
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There are few limits on who can be put to death.
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It does not normally disclose the number of prisoners put to death.
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As the prophets foretold, Apple has put to death the headphone jack.
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Convicted of first-degree murder, he was put to death in 210.
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"He will be put to death as soon as possible," Ali said.
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Twenty-nine people were put to death in the U.S. in 2016.
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They are all to be put to death in Terre Haute, Ind.
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The last time a federal prisoner was put to death was 2003.
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In 2016, Mr. Madison came very close to being put to death.
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Four inmates, including Mr. Branch, have been put to death in 2018.
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No one's suggesting that all geek properties should be put to death.
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But several condemned men put to death in Tennessee have chosen it.
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Ron DeSantis can schedule a date to have him put to death.
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Donnie Johnson was put to death by lethal injection at 7:37 p.m.
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Ledell Lee became the first person put to death in Arkansas since 2005.
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Michael Samra was put to death by lethal injection at 7:10 p.m.
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Twenty-eight people were put to death in the United States last year.
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Ledell Lee was put to death by the state of Arkansas last week.
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Islamic law (Sharia) requires that adulterers be put to death, including rape victims.
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Mr. Campbell would have been the 553th person put to death last year.
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She told him the man had been put to death the night before.
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He was the second man put to death in the state this week.
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Since 2018, four inmates have been put to death by the electric chair.
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Two men would be put to death on each of the four dates.
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Another inmate, Ledell Lee, is still set to be put to death Thursday.
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Activists who criticized his regime were imprisoned for months, with some put to death.
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It counted at least 1,032 people who were put to death, down from 1,634.
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They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
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Aguirre, her boyfriend at the time of Gabriel's death, was ordered put to death.
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Jose Jimenez, 2016, was put to death by lethal injection at 9:48 p.m.
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If she had her way, Shanara said, Williams would have been put to death.
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The state is scheduled to put to death Carey Moore, 60, at 10 a.m.
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Their decision came on the day Madison was scheduled to be put to death.
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Whether Mr. Roof should be put to death has been debated in South Carolina.
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From the 16th century, Catholics were persecuted and even put to death in Sweden.
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Pakistan has strict blasphemy laws -- violators can be put to death for bashing Islam.
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Danny Bible, 66, was put to death at the state's death chamber in Huntsville.
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How did Trump respond after having called for them to be put to death?
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Mr. Ray wanted an imam by his side when he was put to death.
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Forty-three of them were beheaded and four were put to death by firing squad.
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Death row inmate Christopher Wilkins, 48, was put to death in Texas on January 11.
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Pablo Vasquez, 38, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6pm.
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Then prosecutor Amy Berndt made the state's case that he should be put to death.
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Iran saw a surge last year in the number of people it put to death.
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If he is put to death, his killing will be Arkansas' first execution since 2005.
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Saro-Wiwa and the eight others put to death were charged with murdering four men.
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They are to be put to death, their blood will be on their own heads.
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Williams, 257, was the last of four Arkansas inmates put to death in eight days.
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The rare ones who are put to death often first spend decades behind bars, waiting.
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Yet the verdict confers no certainty that Mr. Roof will ever be put to death.
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While we say that murderers are "put to death," the truth is not so passive.
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Two others were put to death in other states and 18 died of other causes.
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He conceded that some of the executed drug offenders shouldn't have been put to death.
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Thomas "Bart" Whitaker is set to be put to death by lethal injection on Feb.
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If Judge Michael Hulewicz deemed Jeb a "dangerous animal," the dog would be put to death.
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Martinez's trial is set to start next year, and he expects to be put to death.
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It is rare for a Saudi royal, who number the thousands, to be put to death.
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In the first few years following Gregg, only a handful of people were put to death.
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He travelled through Greece and Egypt, and his friend and mentor Socrates was put to death.
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That came to an end in "Chloramphenicol," when she was abruptly put to death for treason.
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Federal prosecutors rejected Saipov's offer to plead guilty in exchange for not being put to death.
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Souder testified against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was put to death in 1936 for the abduction.
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He'll be the second inmate in as many months to be put to death by electrocution.
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The crowd demanded that the young Hindu man who created the image be put to death.
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Here are the five men the Trump administration ordered put to death and what they did.
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Now 38, having been convicted of a murder while incarcerated, he will be put to death.
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EXECUTIONS IN America peaked in 22020, when 217 prisoners were put to death in 20 states.
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Instead, the question should be: Should people whom we say are murderers be put to death?
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Another three were put to death for killing a police officer in Cairo in September 2013.
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Euthanasia rates are down, although the A.S.P.C.A. said 670,000 dogs are put to death each year.
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Pablo Vasquez, 38, was put to death by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m.
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Christopher Young is the eighth prisoner to be put to death in Texas so far this year.
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He is the 50th inmate in the state put to death by lethal injection, the department said.
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He'd be the sixth inmate put to death this year in Texas, more than any other state.
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Another execution set for Thursday Kenneth Williams is scheduled to be put to death Thursday in Arkansas.
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In their eyes, abortion is murder and women should be punished and put to death for that.
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Charles Rhines, 63, who is gay, was set to be put to death at 1:30 p.m.
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That number has declined almost every year since, with just 28 inmates put to death in 85033.
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Richard Masterson, 43, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville.
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Despite the recommendation, Gargiulo's defense attorney Dale Rubin says it's unlikely Gargiulo will be put to death.
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" Someone told me that homosexuals "should even be put to death, so strongly does God oppose this.
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Marion Wilson, 42, who was put to death by lethal injection, was declared dead at 9:52 p.m.
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He&aposd be the sixth inmate put to death this year in Texas, more than any other state.
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Still, last year, over 2000,22 cats and nearly 2300,220 dogs were put to death at the overcrowded shelters.
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I discovered years later that my article on Gulley's heroics had prevented him from being put to death.
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Almost 80 prisoners await execution on Nevada's death row, though none have been put to death since 2006.
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The number of prisoners put to death for non-lethal offenses, such as illicit drug use, also surged.
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But "when that inmate is put to death, there's another family going through the grief, and they're innocent."
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Bowles is the 99th person to be put to death in Florida since capital punishment resumed in 1976.
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The man, Keith Leroy Tharpe, known as Bo, was set to be put to death at 7 p.m.
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The two men the State of Arkansas had wanted to put to death on Monday night remained alive.
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In neighboring Alabama, Michael Eggers was put to death by lethal injection without complications at 7:29 p.m.
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According to Texas authorities, Shore is the first person put to death in the United States this year.
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But Mr. Roof's case has prompted a wide-ranging debate over whether he should be put to death.
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Marion Wilson, 42, who was put to death by lethal injection, was declared dead at 103:52 p.m.
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In most states, juries have to unanimously agree on aggravating factors to recommend a defendant be put to death.
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Increasingly, multiple convicts have been put to death the same day, a new trend which has disturbed rights monitors.
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As of late May, at least 94 people had already been put to death this year, the group said.
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A separate tally, kept by Human Rights Watch, said that Saudi Arabia put to death 158 prisoners last year.
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Williams, a convicted murderer, was executed Thursday night, one of four Arkansas inmates put to death in eight days.
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Of the 21625 men put to death this year, 2900 were white, two were black and two were Latino.
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Convicted murderer Ledell Lee was executed April 20, becoming the first person put to death in Arkansas since 2005.
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Of the 75 people sentenced to death on federal charges since 1988, only three have been put to death.
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Many of Jang's children and aides were also put to death, in ways that were intended to capture attention.
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Stephen Michael West, 56, was put to death by electric chair and was pronounced dead at 7:183 p.m.
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Nebraska's last execution took place in December 1997, when Robert Williams was put to death using the electric chair.
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Fern told Riffenburg she did not want him to be put to death for killing her daughter and grandson.
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Saudi Arabia put to death at least 158 people – at least 20123 percent more than in the previous year.
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The executions on Tuesday raise the number of people put to death since the military took over to 23.
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Mass rallies were organized calling for his arrest, with some zealots demanding that the governor be put to death.
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They were the only Americans to have been put to death for espionage-related crimes since the Civil War.
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Those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous, 150 years ago people would be put to death.
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And al-Fawzan has also said that political dissidents who disagree with the Kingdom rulers should be put to death.
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Dozier, who also used the name Chad Wyatt, would become the first person put to death in Nevada since 2006.
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Ronald B. Smith was put to death on Thursday night, and witnesses say he coughed and heaved during the process.
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SIDEBAR A Texas prosecutor told a jury that the victim's parents wanted their son's killer to be put to death.
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Both Iran and Saudi Arabia also saw huge surges in the number of people put to death by the state.
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Castillo would be the 11th convicted killer put to death this year in the U.S. and the sixth in Texas.
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It is extremely uncommon for a member of the Saudi royal family to be put to death in Saudi Arabia.
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In 1588 alone an estimated 22 priests and 933 lay people were put to death because of their Catholic sympathies.
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But three of the eight were put to death this month -- one on April 21, and two more on Monday.
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The 67-year-old Bower became the oldest person executed in Texas when he was put to death in 2015.
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Gonzalez's ruling delays the execution of Scott Dozier, 85033, who was set to be put to death on Wednesday evening.
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At least 157 people were put to death last year, a big increase from the 90 people killed in 2014.
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So you would think that innocent people are less likely to be put to death than to serve life sentences.
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There is no amount of certainty that can guarantee that an innocent person will not mistakenly be put to death.
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The Supreme Court has struck down laws that allow people to be put to death for crimes that don't involve homicides.
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Shore had been scheduled to be put to death in October but the execution was postponed at the request of prosecutors.
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Otte was put to death after he lost an appeal challenging the use of midazolam as a sedative in that protocol.
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In the end, 91 people — at the time a substantial share of the population — were put to death by the state.
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Vasquez, 38, had appealed his execution, but a stay was denied and he was put to death at 6:35 p.m.
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He argued that as the only surviving victim, he would be victimized yet again if his son were put to death.
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Kokoraleis's older brother, Andrew, was put to death in March 1999 for his role in the group, according to the Tribune.
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Long was put to death just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final bid for a stay of execution.
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Three of the prisoners put to death at the Central Java facility hailed from Nigeria, with the remaining convict from Indonesia.
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Executions in the country peaked in 1999, when 98 people were put to death, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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They unsuccessfully argued that the state's compressed schedule threatened the rights of the men Arkansas would like to put to death.
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Before he was put to death, the 55-year-old Shore apologized and said he wished he could undo his past.
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Hours before Sutton was put to death, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his last bid to stay his death sentence.
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Next, the state has to determine whether the convicted person is the sort of murderer we want to put to death.
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The execution came nearly three weeks after the group's leader, Shoko Asahara, was put to death along with six other followers.
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Bucklew, whose appeal is neither contesting his guilt nor seeking to avoid execution, has suggested being put to death by gas.
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Moreover, supporters highlight America's efforts to find, and use, methods of execution that minimize the suffering of those we put to death.
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This global total, however, does not even include China, where Amnesty International believes thousands of people are put to death every year.
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Cleric and sheikh, Nimr al-Nimr, was among 47 people put to death this weekend in Saudi Arabia for terrorism-related offences.
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The board had made a recommendation like that only once before, and Perry ignored it and the inmate was put to death.
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Gray came close to being put to death in 2008, when then-President George W. Bush signed a warrant authorizing his execution.
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James Freeman is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville at 6 p.m.
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Did you know that in 22017 countries it's illegal to be gay and in 212 countries, you can be put to death?
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Newsom has long opposed the death penalty, also citing cases of wrongfully convicted people being put to death to explain his belief.
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Since the earliest recorded execution in the United States in 1608, our country has put to death approximately 19823,000 men and women.
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Delaware and Washington are the only two states that still allow inmates to be put to death by hanging, the group said.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the Stubborn Child Law in 1646, allowing parents to have their defiant teenage sons put to death.
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At least 157 people were put to death in Saudi Arabia last year, a big increase from the 90 executed in 2014.
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Since its inception, the country has executed just one person: the Holocaust leader Adolf Eichmann, who was put to death in 1962.
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Despite it all, he was put to death because the state of Arkansas didn't want its lethal injection drugs to expire unused.
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That did not happen, but five drug convicts were put to death in January of that year, and eight more in April.
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California sentenced nine people to die, the most of any state, but no one has been put to death there since 2006.
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Two of the men scheduled to be put to death this month, Stacey Johnson and Ledell Lee, argue that they are innocent.
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To see the problem, consider the question that for many lies at the heart of issue: Should murderers be put to death?
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Iranian law stipulates that girls as young as nine years old can be put to death, and boys as young as 15.
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A source told Fox News at the time he was given his last rites just two hours before he was put to death.
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Despite the maneuvering around him, Dozier had repeatedly expressed his desire to be put to death and had stopped fighting for his life.
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The Saudis maintained that al-Nimr was a terrorist, and he was one of 47 prisoners put to death on the same day.
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Thailand carried out its first execution in years in June last year, when a murder suspect was put to death by lethal injection.
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Many of the militants who were put to death were part of a Qaeda insurgency that took root in Saudi Arabia in 2003.
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A jury deliberated for about four hours before finding that the 22-year-old, a professed white supremacist, should be put to death.
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In his final statement before being put to death, Pruett said he was sorry for hurting so many people, the Associated Press reported.
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That figure tracks a sharp decline in the use of capital punishment since 1999, when a record 98 inmates were put to death.
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Ledell Lee: Executed Lee was executed on April 21, making him the first person to be put to death in Arkansas since 2005.
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The move came about four hours before Pablo Vasquez, 38, was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.
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Ever since he was put to death by the Athenian court for impiety and corrupting the city's youth, he has been an enigma.
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They will be indoctrinated in extreme intolerance, taught that apostates and blasphemers should be put to death: the antithesis of freedom of religion.
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Of the 23 people put to death in 453, all but three had at least one of these factors, according to the report.
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Ms. Tuti was the fourth Indonesian executed in Saudi Arabia since 2015, including one, Zaini Misri, who was put to death in March.
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Monday was the first time in almost 26 years that an American state has put to death two inmates on the same day.
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Their executions brought to 1,471 the number of inmates put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
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By the summer of 1995, only three of the roughly 50 South Carolina murder defendants he had represented had been put to death.
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However, the three agreed with their colleagues that the issue should be resolve by the courts before the men are put to death.
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In one of the year's best performances, Alfre Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, who is introduced impassively watching an inmate being put to death.
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When Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed in 2001, he was the first federal inmate put to death in 38 years.
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Last year, 25 prisoners were put to death in eight states, down from a peak of 98 executions across 20 states in 1999.
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And last month in Alabama, a man who spent 35 years on death row—and eluded seven execution dates—was finally put to death.
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He has said repeatedly that he wants to be put to death as soon as possible and doesn&apost care what drugs are used.
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Bolin, a 20123-year-old former carnival worker, will be the first inmate put to death in Florida this year unless appeals courts intervene.
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Among those put to death was a young man convicted of a crime that took place when he was 16 years-old, said Amnesty.
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In 2012, an article about his opposition to same-sex marriage included a biblical verse that suggests gay men should be put to death.
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Castillo would be the 11th convicted killer put to death this year in the U.S. and the sixth given a lethal injection in Texas.
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The practice of "zoothanasia" was brought to the public's attention in 2014 when four lions and a healthy young giraffe were put to death.
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Tupac Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief who was put to death after leading a rebellion against Spanish colonial rule, she says.
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Jack Jones and Marcel Williams were then put to death Monday in the first back-to-back executions in the United States since 2000.
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In March, Mr. Swanson dedicated a radio program to denouncing Girl Scout leaders for promoting "lesbianism," and suggesting that they be put to death.
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A Muslim inmate in Alabama was put to death Thursday night after the Supreme Court denied his request for an imam to be present.
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Before Young's execution, there had been 12 people put to death in the United States this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Last year, about half of the 25 executions nationwide took place in Texas, which has put to death eight people so far this year.
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The Supreme Court has barred the execution of people who lack a "rational understanding" of the reason they are to be put to death.
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The Supreme Court's precedents bar the execution of people who lack a "rational understanding" of the reason they are to be put to death.
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A Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Bittaker guilty of murder, kidnapping, rape and other charges and recommended that he be put to death.
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Scheduled to be put to death last November, he was granted a last-minute stay by the Supreme Court while justices considered his appeal.
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In Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that still allows convicts to be put to death, an abolition bill was vetoed by the state's governor.
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The revelation was that I would do my time just like any other lifer, except that maybe someday I would be put to death.
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The justices held that a lower court in Texas had used the wrong standard in determining that Bobby James Moore could be put to death.
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Danny Paul Bible was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday after authorities ignored his plea to be killed by firing squad or nitrogen gas.
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The United Nations says China carries out the largest number of executions, estimating that 6,687 people were put to death there from 1999 to 2003.
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Despite being held up by last minute appeals from a death penalty opponent in Houston, Wesbrook, 58, was put to death just after 8 p.m.
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Nikolas Cruz could be put to death by the state of Florida, if he's found guilty for the slaying of the 17 victims in Parkland.
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At least 1,634 people were put to death by shooting, beheading, lethal injection or hanging according to figures from the human-rights organisation Amnesty International.
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Under federal law, people who smuggle "illegal aliens" into the United States may be put to death if any of the people they're transporting die.
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And where is the specific proof that Clinton explicitly "wants to bring in people who believe women should be enslaved and gays put to death"?
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If Wilde were alive today, he would confront no less than 72 countries where he might again be imprisoned, or worse, be put to death.
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Sean Murphy, a reporter for The Associated Press who witnessed the execution, said Mr. Lee was not visibly uncomfortable as he was put to death.
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The opera takes a turn into savage satire with periodic appearances by Donald Trump , who notoriously called for the boys to be put to death.
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In The Spanish Princess, Catherine learns that a provision of the marriage agreement was that all of Arthurs' rivals to the throne be put to death.
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Pompeo has also called for Edward Snowden to be put to death, said Chris Calabrese, vice president for policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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Still bitter that their innocent dog was nearly put to death, Jeb's owners wonder why they had to come up with the idea of DNA analysis.
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Arkansas began executing the eight prisoners it wants to put to death before a batch of a drug used in lethal injections reaches its expiry date.
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Barbara Steele plays Asa Vajda, a witch who is put to death by her brother and returns after two centuries to wreak havoc on his descendants.
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It carried out one of its largest mass executions in January 2016, when 47 people were put to death, including prominent Shia leader Nimr al-Nimr.
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From 1888 to 1963, when Eddie Mays became the last person to be put to death by the state, more than 600 inmates were executed there.
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Tennessee has executed five people since August 9, 2018, when Billy Ray Irick became the first person put to death by the state since December 2009.
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If our enemies had their way, gays, lesbians and transgender citizens would be put to death as they are today in the Islamic State and Iran.
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This means that Alabama will have to apply to the state courts for a new execution date for Price before he can be put to death.
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So it wasn't until April 20, days after Arkansas's spree had initially been set to start, that the first inmate, Ledell Lee, was put to death.
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In total, at least 1023,634 people were put to death around the world, the highest judicial death toll we have recorded in more than a quarter-century.
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Kenneth Williams was the fourth inmate put to death in eight days in the state, which before April had not carried out an execution in 12 years.
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The troubled cartoon and unwitting face of the alt-right movement was put to death by his creator, comic artist Matt Furie, on Saturday, May 6, 2017.
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With so many low cost and free services out there – and too many animals being put to death because of overpopulation – I always say adopt, don't shop.
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Roberto Ramos Moreno, 64, was put to death by lethal injection in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, where he was pronounced dead at 9:36 p.m.
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Tharpe, 33, had been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in 2017 but the Supreme Court granted him a last-minute stay of execution.
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Craig said the state should instead model its capital punishment protocol after Texas, where inmates are put to death using a single, overwhelming dose of a barbiturate.
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Here, we have two condemned prisoners with the same claim of religious discrimination, one put to death within hours and one spared, at least for some months.
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A spokeswoman for the governor did not respond to messages on Thursday seeking comment, but Ms. Ivey issued a statement after Mr. Samra was put to death.
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He once suggested that vegetarians and teetotalers should be put to death — and then added that he was referring to Hitler, who abstained from alcohol and meat.
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It had been noted that the family members and the congregation were averse to having Roof put to death, but they were not unanimous in their views.
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In Arkansas, where no prisoner has been put to death since November 2005, midazolam is planned as the first of three drugs in the state's lethal injections.
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WASHINGTON — An Alabama inmate was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday after a deadlocked Supreme Court refused to stay his execution, The Associated Press reported.
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If not stopped, Hall will become only the second blind inmate to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
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But just as the group was divided, including within families, about whether Mr. Roof should be put to death, many who spoke could not disguise their disdain.
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Steven Spears, 54, was put to death by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Atlanta.
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Criticism of the army among LGBTQ supporters peaked in 2012 when a church leader told an Australia radio program that gay people should be put to death.
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But then he witnesses a young boy briefly surviving the gas, only to be put to death a few minutes later by a Nazi doctor, possibly Josef Mengele.
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WASHINGTON — Alabama cannot execute Vernon Madison if his dementia prevents him from rationally understanding why he is to be put to death, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
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The film, which centers on Agnes Magnusdottire, the last woman to be put to death in Iceland in 1830, sounds like the independent film version of Alias Grace.
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The last mass execution of similar scale in Saudi Arabia was in 1980, when 63 jihadists were put to death after they seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
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That's why we celebrate Valentine's Day when we do — because that was the day this Roman priest was violently put to death (and he was eventually given sainthood).
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Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr was among 47 people put to death this weekend for terrorist-related offences in one of Saudi Arabia's largest mass executions in years.
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Connecticut has not executed a prisoner since 2005, when serial killer Michael Ross, who admitted killing eight women in the 1980s, was put to death by lethal injection.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a death sentence for a Texas man who argued he could not be put to death because he is intellectually disabled.
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Moody is the oldest person put to death since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to figures compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Prince Turki bin Saud bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabeer was put to death in the capital, Riyadh, according to a report by the Saudi state news service.
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Circuit Court Judge Bradley Zell issued a warrant of execution for Berget, who would be the first person put to death in South Dakota in roughly six years.
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Long was the eighth inmate to be put to death in the United States in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, an organization that tracks executions.
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At least 158 people were put to death last year, a big increase from the 90 people killed in 2014 and the most in the country since 1995.
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A flashback in which an accused witch is put to death by hysterical townspeople previews similar lynch-mob sequences in Reeves's last and strongest film, "Witchfinder General" (1968).
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Then in January 2015, Charles F. Warner was put to death in an 18-minute execution in which officials mistakenly used the wrong drug to stop his heart.
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In March, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order suspending executions, saying he was deeply troubled by the possibility that an innocent person could be put to death.
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The final execution in the United States this year took place last Wednesday when Texas put to death Travis Runnels, who was convicted of killing a prison supervisor.
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Issued by the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, the report said that the majority of those executed were put to death for drug-related offenses.
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Recently, for example, in a single day Jordan put to death 15 people, 10 whom had been convicted of terrorism and five who had committed other crimes, including rape.
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Even if they weren't put to death, LGBT citizens of Brunei could still face fines, whipping or jail, said Matthew Woolfe, founder of human rights groups The Brunei Project.
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The last person executed in California was Clarence Ray Allen, put to death in 2006 at age 76 for the murders of three people more than 25 years earlier.
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Inmate Ronald Phillips, who's been on death row since 1993 for the rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, will be put to death Wednesday evening.
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In their last minutes of life, 5 of the 11 people Texas put to death in 2018 indicated that they felt burning as the execution drug entered their bloodstream.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Jurors who convicted a Missouri man of kidnapping, raping and killing a 10-year-old girl are hearing arguments about whether he should be put to death.
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Gustavo Garcia, 43, who has spent more than half of his life on death row, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's execution chamber in Huntsville.
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In June, the same jury recommended that Franklin, a 63-year-old married father of two and former LAPD mechanic and city sanitation worker, should be put to death.
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Their trials were conducted by Hamas-run security courts in the past two years and they were put to death after all legal procedures were exhausted, the ministry said.
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Mark James Asay was the first white man to be put to death in Florida for killing a black man since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1979.
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He was one of eight inmates who had been scheduled to be put to death before Arkansas' supply of sedatives used in its lethal injections expires at month's end.
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Iranian authorities frequently execute smugglers on drug charges but it was not clear if the men Molaverdi mentioned were put to death for taking part in the illegal trade.
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Twenty-three people were put to death in 2017, a steep decline from 52 in 2009 and 98 in 63, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.
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Ross Douthat LAST week, the State of Arkansas, which had executed exactly nobody since 2005, put to death Ledell Lee for the crime of murdering Debra Reese in 1993.
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A spokesman for Mr. Hutchinson said he did not believe that Mr. Davis could be put to death before the state's midazolam expired at the end of this month.
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Two men would be put to death on each of four dates set by the governor, Asa Hutchinson, who has long sought to bring back the state's death penalty.
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Executions in the US rose for the second year in a row According to Amnesty International's report, 45 people were put to death in the United States in 2018.
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THOUGH no one has been executed in Britain for over 50 years, until 1998 someone convicted of high treason or "piracy with violence" could in theory be put to death.
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In September, Ohio put to death a double murderer, Gary Otte, in its second execution after a three-year hiatus because of legal challenges and difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs.
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Smith and Hickock were later convicted and put to death for the slayings, which they committed in the mistaken belief the family had thousands of dollars stashed in a safe.
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After more than 25 years on death row, James Bigby, 61, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber and pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m.
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" One obstacle at a time The eight death row inmates will be put to death between April 17 and April 27, a move that death penalty opponents have called "unprecedented.
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Attorney General William Barr on Thursday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to adopt an updated execution protocol, clearing the way for five death row inmates to be put to death.
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The injunction represents the latest legal setback in Arkansas' attempt to execute the inmates -- eight of whom were originally set to be put to death by the end of April.
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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 88 percent of the nearly 1,500 people put to death since 1976 have been executed by lethal injection, and 11 percent by electrocution.
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As we previously reported, Manny became persona non grata at The Grove over his aggressive homophobic comments ... which included a bible verse suggesting gay people should be put to death.
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Nikki R. Haley has called for Mr. Roof to be put to death, others said they wanted to avoid the pain of a trial and the potential for protracted appeals.
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A Texas appeals court has granted a stay of execution for Rodney Reed, a death row inmate who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection next week.
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The last inmate executed by firing squad in the United States was Ronnie Gardner, who was put to death in Utah in 2010, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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After meeting earlier this month with the board's members, who were appointed by the governor, the father said that he could not bear to have his son put to death.
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He had several times escaped being put to death, including a scheduled execution in 2001 that was delayed when he began appealing his death sentence, according to several media reports.
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An Ohio prisoner convicted of raping and murdering a toddler in Akron in 1993 was put to death on Wednesday morning, the state's first execution in more than three years.
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The executions in the death chamber at the Cummings Unit, a state prison southwest of Pine Bluff, came four days after the state put to death another killer, Ledell Lee.
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The states where the men were to be put to death all authorise lethal injection and therefore prescribe the same "manner" of death that the federal government wishes to use.
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On Monday, a Tennessee judge declined to allow DNA testing requested by the daughter of Sedley Alley, who was put to death in 22 but claimed his confession was coerced.
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Bill Lee (R) said he would not stay the sentencing of Lee Hall, a blind death row inmate who's scheduled to be put to death in the electric chair Thursday.
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Health officials in Quebec City have confirmed that a patient there is the first to have been put to death legally by a doctor in Canada, according to news reports.
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Not long before he was put to death, Bundy confessed to killing at least 30 women in seven states between 1974 and 1978 — and authorities believe that he killed many others.
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Smith's case highlights at least two brewing divisions on the court that won't be publicly aired in the coming days, especially since Smith was put to death at around 11 pm.
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Trump's view was that "criminals must be told that THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS" and that, therefore, the young men should be put to death.
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The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires a criminal defendant to have a rational understanding of why he is being put to death and the effect of the death penalty.
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No final words Just before Lee was put to death, officials at the Cummins Unit prison in Grady, Arkansas, asked him twice for his final words, but he did not respond.
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Snowden could easily find himself facing life in prison; if the Trump era is as vindictive and authoritarian as it has the potential to be, he might be put to death.
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"I think it's a good and positive fact that no one was put to death that was African American this year," said Gary Bledsoe, the president of the state NAACP chapter.
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"A finding that a man with no memory of what he did wrong has a rational understanding of why he is being put to death is patently unreasonable," that court wrote.
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There have been 65 people put to death in the US in the past three years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, and 40% of those were in Texas alone.
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His crime Miller, 61, waived his right to be executed by lethal injection last month, according to CNN affiliate WTVF, instead electing to be put to death in the electric chair.
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The executions of Ronald Phillips and Gary Otte had been scheduled for May 10 and June 13, respectively, while Raymond Tibbetts was scheduled to be put to death on July 26.
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Still, in July, he was one of 14 convicts, most of them foreigners, who were taken to the prison island of Nusakambangan off Java's southern coast to be put to death.
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By the time of the Moore's Ford Bridge lynching, the report says, thousands of black veterans had been attacked, and many either narrowly escaped or were put to death by mobs.
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Exhibit D is Trump suggesting, repeatedly, that many who are defending America by investigating the Russian attack against America were guilty of treason, for which they could be put to death.
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Death warrants for two men expired this week, and a federal judge issued a stay of execution for a man who was scheduled to be put to death on April 27.
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That man, an 18-year-old ethnic Mongolian named Huugjilt, had been put to death for murder in 1996; as in Mr. Nie's case, another person later confessed to the crime.
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When Mr. Cruz began his one-year term, the number of executions in the country was surging, reaching a peak of 98 in 1999 (last year, 28 people were put to death).
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Billy Irick, 59, who had spent more than three decades on death row, was put to death at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tylee Tracer said.
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"A finding that a man with no memory of what he did wrong has a rational understanding of why he is being put to death", the Eleventh Circuit concluded, "is patently unreasonable".
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Three of the men set to die before the state's supply of a drug used for lethal injection expires -- Jack Jones, Marcell Williams, and Ledell Lee -- have already been put to death.
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Earlier in the trial prosecutors characterized Christensen as having a fascination with serial killers, including Ted Bundy, who murdered dozens of women during the 1970s and was put to death in 1989.
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Since Sampson had pleaded guilty, the trial will focus exclusively on whether he will be put to death for his crimes, or sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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And of the 27 men and one woman put to death last year (the lowest number since 1984), all but four were in the execution-leading troika of Georgia, Missouri and Texas.
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Young became the 13th U.S. inmate put to death this year, and the 553rd in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
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In just the two months since the Paris rally, approximately 200 people have been put to death by the Iranian judiciary, and this figure only refers to those who were formally hanged.
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A total of 14 drug offenders were expected to be put to death on the day, but 10 convicts got a reprieve for the purpose of a thorough review of their cases.
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Mr. Nie is not the first person to be posthumously exonerated by a Chinese court years after execution, but it is impossible to estimate how many have been wrongly put to death.
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Precythe, No. 17-8151, this one from an inmate in Missouri with a rare medical condition that he says will cause excruciating pain if he is put to death by lethal injection.
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He became the first white man to be put to death for killing a black man since the state restored capital punishment in the 1970s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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On Friday, a 6-year-old horse named Harliss was euthanized after fracturing its right front ankle, and on Saturday 5-year-old Uncontainable was put to death for the same reason.
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After being tortured, sent to work camps and watching hundreds of people get put to death, Ngor escaped to the United States in 1980, settling in Los Angeles and working with refugees.
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A trio of federal appeals court judges spent nearly two hours Wednesday mulling over a grisly subject: how precise the law is in dictating how federal prisoners should be put to death.
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They also argued prosecutors misled the jury about a prior murder falsely attributed to Lee when they sought to prove he'd be a danger in prison and should be put to death.
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The move, which left in place a preliminary injunction from a federal judge in Washington, effectively stayed the executions of four men scheduled to be put to death in the coming weeks.
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No one would ever challenge him in jousts because if they injured him, they'd be put to death because he was royalty, so he would go all incognito and dress in black.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down an aspect of Florida's capital punishment system on Tuesday, saying it did not give jurors a sufficient role in deciding whether defendants should be put to death.
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The executions in Saudi Arabia were the first of 2016 and followed a year in which at least 157 people were put to death, the Muslim kingdom's highest yearly total in two decades.
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"Last year alone, 50 million babies—created in the image of God—were silently put to death before they were even born," laments the HBI website, on a page dedicated to Option Line.
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China is believed to remain the world's top executioner, with the number of people put to death annually in the thousands, though the exact figure is a state secret, the rights group said.
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Barred from releasing records, traveling, and performing live, he was ordered to repeatedly report to the newly established Revolutionary Courts, where alleged opponents of the regime were tried and sometimes put to death.
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In 1987, the busiest year for executions in Louisiana since the modern era of the American death penalty, eight prisoners were put to death—nearly a third of the nation's executions that year.
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After his execution date was set for May 2016, Madison's attorneys filed a court challenge saying he was not competent to be put to death because he could not remember committing the murder.
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"Murder is wrong in the gulag, in Afghanistan, in Soweto, in the mountains of Guatemala, in Fairfax County," he once declared, as one of his clients was about to be put to death.
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One official said the United States would still allow migrants to request entry into the country by expressing a fear that they would be tortured or put to death if they returned home.
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The men had been put to death for "their adoption of extremist, terrorist ideology and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disturb security, spread chaos and cause sectarian discord," the news agency reported.
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Douglas K. Watkins, handles the question of pretrial punishment with an eye to whether it could influence how much time the accused masterminds of terrorism serve, or whether they are put to death.
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Runnels was the ninth inmate executed in 2019 in Texas, which put to death three times as many inmates as any other U.S. state this year, according to Death Penalty Information Center data.
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If that sounds good, then ask yourself whether it would be an acceptable cost of the death penalty if the state put to death one innocent person for every 85033 bona fide murderers.
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Shortly before he was put to death, he confessed to more than 30 murders, including some that investigators had not linked him to, and officials said they would never know the real toll.
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He was the one who told me homosexuals should be put to death, and said he he was not threatening me, just speaking "the truth in love" so I could meditate upon it.
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Bible's attorneys made a last-ditch attempt to stop the execution after appealing to the Supreme Court an hour before he was put to death, arguing that he was too sick for lethal injection.
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The last person put to death in California was in 2006, and the state's system of administering capital punishment ground to a halt soon after when a court ruling outlawed its lethal injection protocols.
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With his execution by lethal injection, Mr. Moody, 83, became the oldest prisoner put to death in the modern era of American capital punishment, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a research group.
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Had all three men been put to death, it would have been the first time in more than eight years that three people had been executed on the same day in the United States.
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More than 75 countries consider consensual same-sex sexual relations a crime, and in about 10 countries a person could be put to death for being gay, according to the United States State Department.
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That was down from 25 executions in 2018, when the United States ranked seventh in the world for the number of people it put to death, behind Iraq and Egypt, according to Amnesty International.
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The survey also found that 31% of all Americans believe that 2 million Jews or fewer were killed during the Holocaust, when the actual numbers state that about 6 million Jews were put to death.
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" Hodges responded that "while we have tremendous empathy" for victims of rape or incest, "if anyone should be put to death, it should be the perpetrator of the crime -- not the child, not the baby.
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In 399 BC, Socrates was tried and put to death, based on the charge that "he busies himself studying things in the sky and below the earth", which it was claimed would "corrupt the youth".
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Rodney Berget, 56, was put to death after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by his attorney, Juliet Yackel, to stay the execution on grounds he lacked the intellectual capacity to undergo capital punishment.
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Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Twelve federal jurors said Tuesday that Dylann Roof, the man who killed nine people in a 2015 massacre at a historically black Charleston, South Carolina, church, should be put to death.
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According to numbers provided exclusively to BuzzFeed News by the UK human rights group Reprieve, 137 people have been put to death this year in Saudi Arabia, 103 of them over the last nine days.
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The executions of at least 157 people in 2015, a year that began with the inauguration of a new monarch, King Salman, were a sharp increase from the 90 people put to death in 2014.
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On Monday, a Los Angeles jury decided that "Grim Sleeper" serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. should be put to death on all counts for the murders of 10 women during a 23-year killing spree.
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She is a 67-year-old woman who has gone to jail rather than give evidence in a case where her testimony might make a difference to whether a man is ultimately put to death.
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Tens of thousands people attended Qadri's funeral last March after he was put to death for killing the governor because they considered him a hero - showing the potential for this case to become another flashpoint.
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The flagging support for the death penalty aligns with a decline in the number of executions nationwide, which peaked in 1999 when 98 people were put to death, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his call that the man charged with carrying out the terrorist truck attack that killed eight people in New York this week should be put to death.
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She believes that after Jack Harold Jones is put to death, a feeling of anticipation among her family members may likely give way to a mixture of relief and sadness over a loved one lost.
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Roland Ruiz, 44, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville for the murder of Theresa Rodriguez, 29, in 1992 in the San Antonio area, a prisons official said.
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If the testing goes forward and unambiguously points to someone other than Mr. Alley as the killer, it could become the first time DNA has exonerated a person put to death in the United States.
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At the Cummins Unit, where Mr. Davis was to be put to death, state officials on Monday handed out manila envelopes that included a list of Arkansas executions over the last 104 years or so.
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The court agreed to hear an appeal from a death row inmate in Missouri with a rare medical condition that he says will cause excruciating pain if he is put to death by lethal injection.
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It would certainly be reasonable on the one hand to say "I want murderers put to death," while on the other, to worry that the task of identifying those murderers poses too many unsettling problems.
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In another music video, "Hi Bich/Whachu Know," Bhabie takes the persecution complex further, playing a defendant in a courtroom who is later strapped to an electric chair and put to death by a black bailiff.
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The provocation comes four days after Saudi Arabia executed 373 people, including 43 that the government claims were al Qaeda militants — it was unclear if any Islamic State members were also among those put to death.
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The provocation comes four days after Saudi Arabia executed 47 people, including 43 that the government claims were al Qaeda militants — it was unclear if any Islamic State members were also among those put to death.
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In line with Glossip's requirement that people on death row name another workable execution method that would incur less pain, Mr Bucklew said it would be better if he were put to death using nitrogen gas.
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In the letter, published by the Kyodo News Service, Uematsu allegedly demanded that all people with disabilities be put to death through "mercy killing," and he allegedly asked to be judged innocent by reason of insanity.
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Before my friend Earl was put to death in 2005, Ms. Williams got transferred to the kitchen—because she couldn't stomach the thought that her employment might equate to a kind of participation in his execution.
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A Muslim inmate who complained in a legal challenge that Alabama wouldn't let his Islamic spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber has been put to death after the nation's highest court cleared the way.
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It shows the hedonistic Sardanapalus, a fictional Assyrian king facing defeat, sitting indolently on an immense divan of rosy silk while all around, on his order, his concubines, eunuchs and horses are being put to death.
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But Mr. Stevenson pointed out that when standing here, you are on view as well, faced on all sides by the names of the thousands who were run down, instantly judged and viciously put to death.
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But Mr. Dunham said that a morbidly ill person voluntarily dying with the aid of sedatives and surrounded by loved ones, and an inmate being put to death against his or her will, were hardly comparable.
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Mr. Hochschild likens the rusting hulks of the sugar mills that he visited in the Caribbean to the remnants of the Russian gulags where millions of anonymous people were put to death during the Stalinist era.
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Two men are scheduled to be put to death in Arkansas Monday evening as the state presses on with an execution spree hastily organized due to the looming expiration dates on its controversial lethal injection drugs.
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A third, Eric Scott Branch, who was convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of a college student, screamed "Murderers!" multiple times on a gurney while he was being put to death at Florida State Prison.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - In the first U.S. execution of 2018, Texas on Thursday put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering five girls and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.
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The trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court will now go to the penalty phase, beginning May 21980, in which jurors will be asked to decide whether Franklin, 22008, should be put to death for his crimes.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China was the world's top executioner last year, while the United States put to death fewer people than it has in more than two decades, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
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This may go some way towards explaining why the modern era of American executions peaked in the early 2000s, when the list of safeguards wasn't as long and 60 to 70 people were put to death annually.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday Iraqi government efforts to speed up execution of Islamic State militants following a Baghdad bomb attack that killed 324 people could result in innocent people being put to death.
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LAHORE — Pakistan's newest hardline religious party, TLP, which calls for blasphemers to be put to death and celebrates those who have murdered the alleged perpetrators, held a lively motorcycle rally last week through the streets of Lahore.
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Courts in China are not independent of the ruling Communist Party, and many Western nations have not signed extradition pacts with China over fears that the accused will be denied a fair trial or put to death.
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She prayed to Jesus to make her repellent to the would-be groom and was rewarded with masculine features and a beard that resembled Christ's—at the sight of which her father had her put to death.
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The U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment, prohibits capital punishment for those who, because of dementia, mental illness or other disorders, cannot understand why they will be put to death, the justices ruled.
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In a similar dispute over the Vienna Convention in 1999, the ICJ ordered the United States not to execute a German national who did not get proper consular assistance, but the man was put to death regardless.
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Travis Runnels, 46, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville for the 2003 murder of 193-year-old Stanley Wiley, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement.
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Another prisoner put to death Saturday, Adel al-Dhubaiti, was convicted of killing Simon Cumbers, an Irish freelance cameraman who had been working on a story on Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia for the BBC in June 2004.
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The thousand-plus pages on the life, crimes, imprisonment, and execution by firing squad of Gary Gilmore—the first man to be put to death after a decade-long moratorium of the death penalty—read fast and lean.
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Earlier in the trial in U.S. District Court in Peoria, prosecutors characterized Christensen as having a fascination with serial killers, including Ted Bundy, who murdered dozens of women during the 1970s and was put to death in 1989.
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The case of a man who is set to be put to death in Texas later this month has drawn high-profile attention from celebrities, after several people came forward with new testimony throwing his conviction into doubt.
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Tuesday's execution was the first time that a member of the royal family had been put to death for murder by the state since 1975, when Prince Faisal bin Musaid was beheaded in Riyadh for assassinating King Faisal.
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Those involved in the massacre still occupy senior positions within the regime, including Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who questioned many of those put to death in 1988 and now serves as justice minister in the "moderate" government of Hassan Rouhani.
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Instead, the court said one of its precedents, which barred the execution of people who lack a "rational understanding" of the reason they are to be put to death, may sometimes apply to inmates who suffer from dementia.
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White supremacist's execution: John William King was put to death in Texas on Wednesday for the murder of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to his death in 1998.
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Rights groups strongly criticized Egypt this month for executing nine men accused over the 2015 killing of the country's chief prosecutor, saying that they and others had been put to death after unfair trials amid a surge in executions.
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"No one should be put to death, certainly not as a part of a legal system in which torture and coercion are common," Sari Bashi, the Human Rights Watch director for Israeli and Palestinian issues, said in a statement.
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Some suspected that Maegor's own guards killed him, while others speculated that a surviving builder of the Red Keep — all of whom were supposed to have been put to death to preserve the building's secrets — might have been responsible.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in an appeal from a death row inmate in Missouri with a rare medical condition that he says will cause excruciating pain if he is put to death by lethal injection.
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In the eyes of the lynching state — where an African-American could be put to death on a white person's whim — the impulse toward self-defense was often viewed as a crime when it came with a black face.
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While the three signaled they viewed the prisoners' claim as a weak one, Alito said it would be best to allow the current challenge to play out now rather than wait until after the men are put to death.
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In a two-sentence order, the court issued a temporary stay for the execution of Tommy Arthur, with the action announced less than an hour before he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m.
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Twenty two people were executed in the United States in 2019, down from 25 in 2018 when the country ranked seventh in the world for the number of people it put to death, behind Iraq and Egypt, according to Amnesty International.
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A Virginia inmate convicted of killing two men during a 2006 escape from custody is set to be put to death today in an execution that has drawn international pleas for clemency on grounds that he is severely mentally ill.
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Ronald Bert Smith Jr. was put to death at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility after the Supreme Court, split 27-25 due to the vacancy left after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February, refused to grant him stay of execution.
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Ronald Bert Smith Jr. was put to death at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility after the Supreme Court, split 53-4 due to the vacancy left after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February, refused to grant him stay of execution.
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Here's a summary of the report's findings: • Don Davis was supposed to be put to death April 217 and had been served his last meal before the US Supreme Court refused to overrule a state court ruling -- thereby delaying his execution.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq put to death 12 people convicted of terrorism hours after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for speedy executions in response to the kidnapping and killing of eight members of the security forces, the government said on Friday.
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The question of whether an animal should be put to death after attacking a person is surfacing again after the incident with Williams and a spate of others in which bears, big cats, alligators and other wild animals attacked people.
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" The customer wrote "Leviticus 20:13," which reads, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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Until recently, its reputation was as the gutter of Eastern Europe, infamous for its packs of wild dogs, most of which were gathered up and put to death starting in 2013, after a young boy and a Japanese tourist were killed.
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Christopher Young, 34, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in the city of Huntsville for the murder of Hasmukh Patel at his convenience store in San Antonio, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
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CNN reported Friday that Murtaja Qureiris, a young Saudi activist who had been active in protest movements for years before his arrest, could be put to death after being charged with firing weapons at security officers and constructing Molotov cocktails.
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Jones's and Williams's executions were the second and third in a four-day period; at the same facility, on the preceding Thursday, Ledell Lee, aged fifty-one, became the first prisoner to be put to death in Arkansas since 2005.
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National Briefing | Midwest The state can try again to put to death a condemned killer whose 2009 execution was called off after he cried in pain for two hours while receiving 18 needle sticks, the Ohio Supreme Court said Wednesday.
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John Battaglia, 62, a former accountant was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville after the execution was delayed for several hours for federal courts to consider last-minutes appeals to spare his life.
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Texas inmate seeks execution reprieve AUSTIN - After two recent botched U.S. executions of inmates with compromised veins, a convicted murderer and rapist is arguing he is too ill to be put to death by lethal injection in Texas later this month.
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Whitaker's father insists that he would be victimized again if the state put to death his last remaining immediate family member," Mr. Abbott said in a statement, noting that 30 inmates had been executed during his three years as governor. "Mr.
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Although state officials said Mr. Williams had experienced an "involuntary muscle reaction" during his execution, some witnesses depicted a far more unsettling scene at the Cummins Unit in rural Varner, where the three other men were also put to death.
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The number of executions in Iran were halved in 2018 through changes to anti-narcotics laws, but the country was still second in the world after China with at least 253 convicts put to death, according to rights group Amnesty International.
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Editorial In the space of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to execute eight men — nearly a quarter of its entire death-row population, and more than a third as many people as were put to death in America in 2016.
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The last words of an Ohio man put to death Wednesday for the rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter addressed the victim, saying, "Sheila Marie did not deserve what I did to her," according to multiple media reports.
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Officials say an "exhaustive investigation" corroborated the 2015 confession that Licho Escamilla gave to investigators from the district attorney&aposs office&aposs conviction integrity unit right before Escamilla was put to death for the killing of an off-duty Dallas police officer.
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BAGHDAD, June 29 (Reuters) - Iraq put to death 12 people convicted of terrorism hours after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for speedy executions, in response to the kidnapping and killing of eight members of the security forces, the government said on Friday.
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We are not saying the death penalty is not justified; we are saying, let's not put this community through the trauma and pain of a trial knowing that, three years down the road, one juror could keep him from being put to death.
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Instead, it illustrates Christ's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane — a more vulnerable scene from Christian iconography, in which Christ realized he would soon be arrested and put to death, and sat in a garden of olives, agonizing over his suffering to come.
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If Gray is put to death, it will be the first military execution since 1961, when John Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas after he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill an 11-year-old Austrian girl.
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Ronald Clark O'Bryan's appeal avenues were explored and turned down for nearly a decade after his guilty verdict, so it wasn't until March 31, 1984, when all routes to survival had been exhausted, that he was finally put to death for his crime.
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Bucklew, who was convicted of forcibly raping and kidnapping his ex-girlfriend, murdering her boyfriend, and shooting at police in 1996, was scheduled to be put to death on March 20 until the Supreme Court stayed his execution by a 85033-4 vote.
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The death tax, created to pay for the Civil War (on both sides) lived 10 years after Appomattox but was put to sleep in 1875 and revivified to pay for World War One which ended in 1918, will finally be put to death.
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So if you are Donald Trump and you see all of these people in positions of responsibility that think you ought to be -- that you&aposre guilty of treason, a crime for which you can be put to death, by the way.
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He explained that 326 years ago, women were falsely accused of being witches and put to death based off "either malicious or hysterical" testimony, which is somehow exactly the same as a woman claiming Kavanaugh tried to rape her in high school.
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Moore was sentenced to death for the 1979 killings of Omaha taxi drivers Maynard Helgeland and Reuel Van Ness Jr. The last time Nebraska executed an inmate was in December 1997, when Robert Williams was put to death using the electric chair.
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He is going to be put to death on Thursday because he was failed: first, failed by the father whose actions landed his own son in prison, and then failed by the Texas court system, which senselessly threw a teenager's life away.
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Around the turn of the millennium, the children and grandchildren of Franco's "disappeared"—the tens of thousands of Republicans put to death during the Civil War and the dictatorship—started calling for the exhumation of mass graves and a reckoning with the past.
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The three men were the first to be executed in Bahrain since 2010, and the first Bahrainis to be executed since 1996, according to the rights group Reprieve, based in Britain, although their citizenship was revoked before they were put to death.
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In an age when the most of the rest of the world is renouncing or not enforcing the death penalty, several states in the US still execute prisoners, with 25 put to death in 2018, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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The Cruz campaign is okay with lots of stuff that would fill a more conventional campaign with shame, from a pastor who said that God sent Hitler to kill the Jews to a different pastor who said that gay people should be put to death.
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Samra and convicted killer Donnie Johnson, who was put to death in Tennessee on Thursday, were the sixth and seventh inmates executed in the United States in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, an organization that tracks executions in the United States.
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Ledell Lee, 51, was the first to be put to death out of a group of eight men that Arkansas originally planned to execute within a span of 11 days, before the expiration of one of the drugs the state uses for the lethal injection.
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But that was minor compared with the political firestorm caused by his government's arrest that same weekend of a student leader accused of participating in a university rally in support of a man put to death for a terrorist attack in India years ago.
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At one point on Thursday night, the Supreme Court nearly halted Mr. Lee's execution, but decided, 5 to 4, to allow the state to proceed with its plan, which had called for eight prisoners to be put to death over less than two weeks.
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Lee, a onetime white supremacist convicted in a triple murder, was scheduled to be put to death this past Monday, and relatives of the young family he killed had arranged to travel up from rural Arkansas where the grisly crime occurred to bear witness.
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This would seem to be the easiest of questions given that the Supreme Court has long recognized a basic principle of fairness: a capital jury must hear both sides of a story before making the momentous decision of whether someone should be put to death.
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"Socrates was put to death, and Jesus crucified, in mob trials," the lawyer, Seo Seok-gu, told the Constitutional Court, denouncing the National Assembly's vote to impeach Ms. Park and criticizing local news coverage of the corruption scandal that has engulfed her in recent months.
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Even so, I treated the week leading up to the first day of my diet (or D-Day, as I started calling it) like I was about to be put to death — I took in all the booze, cheese, coffee, and carbs my stomach could handle.
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"God has instilled the power of civil government to send the police in 2019 out to the LGBT freaks and arrest them and have a trial for them, and if they are convicted, then they are to be put to death," he said in the clip.
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The execution of the cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, among 47 men put to death on terrorism-related charges, and the subsequent sacking of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, ruptured relations between the Sunni monarchy in Saudi Arabia and Shiite-led Iran, setting the region on edge.
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The governor, who became Catholic in 2002 but sometimes attends an evangelical church, began by declaring he had just done something for which people in certain parts of the world could be put to death: he had taken part in holy communion, Christianity's most important rite.
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A district court judge today halted the execution of Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier—a man who has repeatedly expressed his desire to die—hours before he was scheduled to be put to death with an untested injection of three drugs: midazolam, fentanyl, and cisatracurium.
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The executions were put on hold after a judge issued a restraining order on a key lethal injection drug Wednesday, but Lee was put to death after a flurry of court rulings that ended with the US Supreme Court denying multiple requests for a stay of execution.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has rejected a Georgia death row inmate's motion that his scheduled Tuesday execution by lethal injection be halted and that he be put to death instead by a firing squad, which his lawyers said would be less painful for him.
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In the late 1980s, he infamously argued that a group of black and Latino teens known as the Central Park Five should be put to death for a rape they were falsely accused of committing (he still refuses to admit he was wrong to do so).
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A Saigon cop asks her to identify the puppeteer who collaborated with the suicide bomber, but she realizes quickly that the man isn't going to jail — and more than that, she wants to hear the confirmative pop when he is put to death in the streets.
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The state of Arkansas plans to put to death eight inmates over a span of 22005 days next month, a pace of executions unequaled in recent American history and brought about by a looming expiration date for a drug used by the state for lethal injections.
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The work drew criticism when it was featured in the Krakow Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK) in 2015—but it wasn't until this year that Jewish groups realized the short film was actually shot inside a former concentration camp where 65,000 people were put to death.
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A 2015 national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans believed that there is some risk that an innocent person will be put to death and only 26% thought that there are adequate safeguards in place to make sure that does not happen.
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The president has a long history of facing accusations of racism, including allegations that he would not rent out property to black residents and his persistent claims that the now-exonerated "Central Park Five," five young men of color who were wrongfully convicted, should have been put to death.
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CLEVE FOSTER By the time Cleve Foster was put to death in 2012, he&aposd received at least three reprieves from the U.S. Supreme Court, including two when he was within hours of execution for the slaying of a 30-year-old woman near Fort Worth in 2000.
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"The state court did not unreasonably apply (two prior decisions) when it determined that Madison is competent to be executed because -- notwithstanding his memory loss -- he recognizes that he will be put to death as punishment for the murder he was found to have committed," the justices wrote.
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The only time that I was emotionally involved was when I had to make the decision, and I actually had to go and speak and tell the jury that this man, sitting in a room a few feet away from me, should be put to death for his crime.
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One of the individuals heard on the 1988 recording is today the justice minister in the Rouhani administration, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who was the Intelligence Ministry's representative on the Tehran "death commission," which held the minutes-long trials to determine which of the local political prisoners would be put to death.
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Another allegation of corruption emerged just before the executions last month, when one of the men put to death, an Indonesian named Freddy Budiman, was quoted as saying that he had paid senior law enforcement officials more than $40 million to let his drug smuggling operation continue before he was arrested.
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But until then, the Supreme Court's decision — joined by the rest of the liberal bloc and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. — provides hope that officials may yet realize that it's inhumane to put to death someone too impaired to remember the crime he committed or comprehend the punishment he is facing.
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We may tell ourselves otherwise, but the fact is that the death penalty is too often arbitrary, and functions as a tool of racial abuse -- men of color are much more likely to be put to death than white men, especially if those men of color are accused of killing someone white.
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Putting aside the fact that he and Mike Pence would apparently fail their own ideology test on several fronts, the very existence of such a vetting policy would create another obstacle for refugees —including LGBTQ people fleeing countries where they can literally be put to death simply because of who they are.
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The investigator, Ahmed Shaheed, the special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, said in a report to the organization's Human Rights Council that at least 966 people were put to death in the country last year, roughly double the number executed in 2010 and 10 times as many as were executed in 2005.
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If Mr. Hutchinson denies the recommendation and all eight inmates are put to death, Arkansas will be the first state to conduct that many executions in a month since capital punishment resumed in the United States in 1977, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based group that studies capital punishment.
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A Christian, by definition, believes Jesus is God, who dwelled among us, who was born poor, who preached a Gospel of love, and — though he surely could have annihilated the Romans and blasted his persecutors and made the sands of Galilee glow in the dark — allowed himself to be put to death by the authorities.
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The attorney for Lee— the inmate scheduled to be put to death first under the new procedure and who has been on death row since 1999 — argued that "executing (Lee) would be a grave injustice" given the "unreliability of the evidence" and that "his indisputably more culpable" co-defendant, Chevie Kehoe, received a life sentence.
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The father of the man whose execution was commuted just before he was scheduled to be put to death said on Megyn Kelly TODAY that he is grateful his son's life was spared — even after the son's conviction for plotting the murder of his family members and the attempted murder of the dad himself.
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Augustine, for example, wrote that if "there were no other means established to curb the malice of the wicked, extreme necessity might perhaps urge that such men be put to death," although he also urged local magistrates to show mercy to condemned prisoners and commute their sentences in order to give them time to repent.
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Mahmood Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group, revealed on Friday that sources inside and outside Ghezel Hessar prison, including a prosecutor attached to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court, confirmed that the inmates were told that the country's Supreme Court had upheld their sentences, and that they should prepare to be put to death.
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Arkansas plans 2 more executions Monday in its capital punishment spree Arkansas plans 2 more executions Monday in its capital punishment spree Two men are scheduled to be put to death in Arkansas Monday evening as the state presses on with an execution spree hastily organized due to the looming expiration dates on its controversial lethal injection drugs.
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Questions about the source and quality of Texas's execution drugs have been particularly acute in the past year, since in their final moments of life, five of the 11 inmates who Texas put to death in 2018 said the drug they were injected with, which is supposed to be painless, felt like it was burning as it coursed through their bodies.
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MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ When Rodriguez was executed in 2008, he became the first of the infamous Texas 7 gang of escapees put to death for killing a suburban Dallas police officer on Christmas Eve 20063, nearly two weeks after they broke out of a South Texas prison by overpowering prison workers, stealing their clothes, grabbing guns from the prison armory and fleeing in a stolen truck.
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Related: Saudi Arabia's New King Likes Beheading People Even More Than His Predecessor "The Saudi Arabian authorities appear intent on continuing a bloody execution spree which has seen at least 151 people put to death so far this year — an average of one person every two days," said James Lynch, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Amnesty International, when the report was released in November.
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