China ramps up efforts to stop deadly ethnic violence

This is unusual in China.3o years ago there would have been tanks in the streets, mass arrests.  It seems China is slowly moving away from the past, while still using force at times.Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic group who follow Sunni Islamic religion.  They are the...

Remember Remember the 5th of November: Guy Fawkes Day

Remember Remember the 5th of NovemberGunpowder treason and plotI see no reason why gunpowder, treaonShould ever be forgot...(Remember Remember the fifth of november poem)November 5th is Guy Fawkes Day - a day to...

Saudi man beheaded for beating wife to death

2 convicted murderers were beheaded by the sword on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia. One of the accused Omar Bin Abid Wakdani beated his wife to death following a family argument. 2nd execution was carried out in Qurait, in the northeast of the kingdom, where Fawzi bin Abd...

12th Texas Execution this year

Tonight Joseph Ries will become the 12th Texas execution victim this year unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to stop it.  Texas executes more prisoners than any other state with two last week, two...

Dyslexic doctor has overseen 40 executions

A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...

Death row inmate: I'm too fat to execute

"He raped and murdered 2 women, I don't care if he suffers or not when executed. He certainly had no qualms about inflicting pain on his victims.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would...

Bali bombers 'to die by Ramadan'

After 6 years waiting, the defendant finally will be executed in holly month of ramadan. Why wait until ramadhan, why not now?!"Indonesia says it hopes to execute three militants for their part in the 2002 Bali...

Int'l Court to US: Don't Execute Mexican Nationals

In a move welcomed by Mexico, The United Nations' highest court is urging the US not to execute five Mexican nationals who had, during the course of their respective trials, been denied access to their consulate.Texas is bridling at the intervention, though, saying that...

Indonesia set to execute mother-son murderers: official

The law must continue to be upheld!Preview:Sumiarsih and Sugeng were sentenced by the death sentence because of being proven killed Lt col in March Purwanto and his family's four members in Surabaya on August 23...

Amnesty urges Indonesia to halt serial killer`s execution

If the death sentence not the solution, then the other solution?Pity the perpetrators? How are about his victims?"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Rights group Amnesty International called on Indonesia Saturday not to execute a man who murdered 42 women in "black magic" rituals. ...

Indonesia to execute five more death row convicts

The death sentence still a controversy in many countries."After taking two Nigerians to a firing squad for drug offenses last week, the Indonesian prosecutors are now planning to execute five more death row...

Indonesia to execute 57 drug offenders

""They have not yet been executed," he said through a cellular phone.Their lawyer, Bambang Sri Wahono said later in the afternoon that Anthony and Okoye had contacted their wives at 1 pm informing that they had just signed minutes on the implementation of their execution.Two...

First US execution by lethal injection after moratorium

UPDATE - May 6 | 5:28 pm PDT - William Earl Lynd was pronounced dead at 7:51p.m. EDT."It came less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts to block it. The roughly three dozen states around the...

Pakistan Issues Fresh Death Warrant for Sarabjit Singh Execution

"Islamabad (ABC live): The long trail to save Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner waiting for capital punishment in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail seem to be near end."

High Court Tells Texas to Ignore Bush

"WASHINGTON (AP) - Texas can ignore President Bush and an international court in refusing to reopen the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.The court said Bush exceeded his authority when he tried to intervene on behalf of Jose...

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