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Will US secrecy laws boost the death penalty?
AFP, Published on 21/04/2016
» WASHINGTON - America stands alone among Western nations for its use of the death penalty, but the number of prisoners it executes has slowed to a trickle in recent years -- partly due to a lack of drugs.
S.African judge to hear Sudan president arrest case
AFP, Published on 15/06/2015
» JOHANNESBURG - A South African judge was due to hear arguments Monday over an application to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at a summit of African leaders in Johannesburg.
Pakistan imposes one-month moratorium on executions
AFP, Published on 14/06/2015
» ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has imposed a one-month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said Sunday, giving a temporary reprieve to a death row prisoner whose lawyers say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.
US rights record in UN spotlight
AFP, Published on 10/05/2015
» GENEVA - The United Nations will on Monday review the US rights record, with police brutality and racism, mass surveillance and the legacy of the "war on terror" in the spotlight.
Families of death row inmates, fearing worst, head to Indonesia
AFP, Published on 24/04/2015
» JAKARTA - Relatives and diplomats scrambled Friday to visit several foreign drug convicts on death row in Indonesia as authorities, defying international outrage, made final preparations to execute them.
Australia offers to pay for Bali pair's jail time if spared
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» SYDNEY - Australia has offered to pay the cost of imprisonment for two drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia if they are spared the firing squad, in another bid Thursday to save their lives.
Lethal injections face scrutiny after two-hour US execution
AFP, Published on 25/07/2014
» WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die.
First US executions carried out since botched lethal injection
AFP, Published on 18/06/2014
» US states overnight Tuesday carried out the first two executions since a botched one in April that caused a prisoner to suffer and triggered a hot debate on lethal injection.
UN urges end to impunity for PNG sorcery attacks
AFP, Published on 13/06/2014
» A senior United Nations envoy has urged an "end to impunity" in Papua New Guinea for sorcery-related attacks but rejected using the death penalty as punishment, a report said Friday.
Botched execution highlights US lethal drug dilemma
AFP, Published on 30/04/2014
» A botched execution, which left a prisoner writhing in agony after he was injected with an untested drug cocktail, has focused attention on America's struggle to find the best way to put people to death.