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After Decade On Death Row In Indonesia, British Grandmother To Return Home
Indonesia signed an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two British nationals, including a seriously ill grandmother on death row for more than a decade on drug charges, a minister said.
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Joe Biden Commutes Death Sentences Of 37 Federal Inmates Ahead Of Christmas
US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates, taking action ahead of the return of Donald Trump who oversaw a sweeping number of lethal injections during his first term.
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Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Now A Free Man
A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six decades-long chapter.
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African-American Death Row Inmate Suffered Race Bias: Top US Court
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favour of an African American death row inmate who argued there was bias in the choosing of an all-white jury that convicted him of the 1986 murder of an elderly white woman.
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Killed By Injection For A Murder Over Car Keys
The US state of Georgia on Thursday executed a man convicted of beating another man to death with a wooden closet rod in 1994, a prison spokeswoman said.
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Nine Face Midnight Firing Squad in Indonesia, Hopes for Reprieve Gone
Nine drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours.
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US Death Row Inmates Appeal Injection Ruling
A group of Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to die early next year filed notice on Tuesday stating they intend to appeal the ruling of a federal judge who says the state's new lethal injection protocol is constitutional.
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Oklahoma Death Row Inmates Sue to Halt Execution
Two months after a botched execution in Oklahoma, 21 death row inmates in the southern US state filed suit on Wednesday against prison authorities on procedures to put convicts to death.
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US State of Texas Halts Execution at 11th Hour
A Texas appeals court halted at the 11th hour the execution of a murderer who was to have been the first US inmate put to death since a botched lethal injection ignited a national debate.
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US death row inmates sue over drugs' secrecy
Two Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to be executed next month sued state corrections officials Wednesday for details about the drugs that will be used to execute them, including their source.
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After Decade On Death Row In Indonesia, British Grandmother To Return Home
Indonesia signed an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two British nationals, including a seriously ill grandmother on death row for more than a decade on drug charges, a minister said.
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Joe Biden Commutes Death Sentences Of 37 Federal Inmates Ahead Of Christmas
US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates, taking action ahead of the return of Donald Trump who oversaw a sweeping number of lethal injections during his first term.
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Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Now A Free Man
A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six decades-long chapter.
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African-American Death Row Inmate Suffered Race Bias: Top US Court
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favour of an African American death row inmate who argued there was bias in the choosing of an all-white jury that convicted him of the 1986 murder of an elderly white woman.
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Killed By Injection For A Murder Over Car Keys
The US state of Georgia on Thursday executed a man convicted of beating another man to death with a wooden closet rod in 1994, a prison spokeswoman said.
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Nine Face Midnight Firing Squad in Indonesia, Hopes for Reprieve Gone
Nine drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours.
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US Death Row Inmates Appeal Injection Ruling
A group of Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to die early next year filed notice on Tuesday stating they intend to appeal the ruling of a federal judge who says the state's new lethal injection protocol is constitutional.
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Oklahoma Death Row Inmates Sue to Halt Execution
Two months after a botched execution in Oklahoma, 21 death row inmates in the southern US state filed suit on Wednesday against prison authorities on procedures to put convicts to death.
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US State of Texas Halts Execution at 11th Hour
A Texas appeals court halted at the 11th hour the execution of a murderer who was to have been the first US inmate put to death since a botched lethal injection ignited a national debate.
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US death row inmates sue over drugs' secrecy
Two Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to be executed next month sued state corrections officials Wednesday for details about the drugs that will be used to execute them, including their source.
