Iranian Cleric Urges Harsh Punishment - Where is Obama?

"EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of...

Supreme Court's DNA Deliberations, by Mary Neal

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments this week and is now deliberating on whether prisoners, including death row inmates, should be allowed to do DNA testing on evidence that was used to convict them...

China prisoners to be executed by injection rather than bullets

Instead of bullets, China plans to use injections when executing its prisoners.The director general of the research bureau of the Supreme People's Court said using injections were more humane than bullets and it reduces the criminals' fear and pain compared with gunshot...

Human Rights for Prisoners March Was Postponed - Weather

WE NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD RAIN ON OUR JUSTICE PARADE, BUT IT DID.  MAN PLANS, BUT GOD DECIDES.  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON, AND MORE WERE FORCAST THROUGHOUT...

Oh, Mother, I can see the Noose!

Just minutes before they hung her, Delara Darabi made a frantic phone call to her mother. One wonders why she was allowed to make this call? " It was 7am when Delara Darabi phoned home. "Oh mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me," she garbled. "They are going to...

Freedom House Condemns Pakistan, China for Uighur Extraditions

The ethnically distinct Uighurs of China face an uncertain future.  Recently Pakistan extradited Uighur exiles to China in violation of international agreements.  "China increased its repression of...

Delara Darabi executed in Iran this May Day morning

Amnesty International claimed it was "a cynical move on the part of the authorities to avoid domestic and international protests which might have saved Delara Darabi's life.""Stop Child Executions sadly regrets to...

UPDATE~DNA Test Granted! Thomas Arthur Granted Stay of Execution

HOLD OFF ON THE LETHAL INJECTION!  The Alabama Supreme Court granted Thomas Arthur a stay of execution Wednesday, which saved this condemned man from being executed at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, July 31. ...

Blogging for Justice: Against Police Pretrial Electrocutions 4/24

A Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up AgainstPolice Pre-Trial Electrocution - April 24, 2009Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and Electrocuted While Black.. When I first proposed renaming "tasering" "police pre-trial electrocution and execution", some...

HUMAN RIGHTS: Uganda moves towards abolishing death penalty

It seems that Uganda, a country in central Africa, is one big step closer of banning capital punishment. On January 21, the Ugandan Supreme Court ruled that death sentences will be turned into life imprisonment...

Chinese Tainted Milk Scandal CEO Pleads Guilty, Could Face Death

The former CEO of Sanlu Group, Tian Wenhua, plead guilty today in a Chinese court to charges of producing and selling fake or substandard products in the melamine tainted milk scandal.  He could face the death...

(Updated) Troy Davis Granted Hearing Before 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on ...

TROY ANTHONY DAVIS, condemned Georgia man, will have another opportunity to present evidence before jurists to argue for a new trial.  The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear arguments by Davis'...

Iran poised to execute teacher and labour activist

According to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Education International (EI), Farzad Kamangar, the Iranian Kurdish teacher, social worker and labour activist sentenced to death on 25 February 2008 by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, could be...

Afghans Arrest Schoolgirl Acid Attackers

"They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed them with a strange liquid. Within seconds...

On Dec. 10, the US Army Will Have Its First Execution Since 1961

December 10, 2008 will be a historical date for the United States Army. It will have its first execution since 1961. According to the United States Army, soldier Ronald A. Gray of North Carolina will be executed. The place of the execution will be at the federal prison...

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