Japan executes 2 inmates; 5 put to death this year
Japan has hanged two inmates convicted of murder, its fourth and fifth executions this year.
Japan has hanged two inmates convicted of murder, its fourth and fifth executions this year.
US prosecutors rebuffed Thursday a reported offer by Colorado theater massacre suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for escaping the death penalty, legal documents showed.
For 11 years the family of a convicted terrorist waited and wondered about his fate as he sat on death row. Two weeks ago they found out — from television. Mohammad Afzal Guru had been hanged in secrecy in a faraway jail in New Delhi. A government letter informing them of the imminent hanging arrived at their home in Kashmir two days after he was dead.
A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal.
Japan has executed three inmates convicted of murder in its first executions under the government that took office in December. The Justice Ministry said the executions were carried out early Thursday at three locations. One of the condemned inmates killed a schoolgirl.
Bangladesh’s controversial war crimes court Monday sentenced a top Islamic televangelist to death by hanging for genocide and other atrocities during the country’s 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan.
A man who strangled his prison cellmate and made good on a vow to continue killing if he wasn’t executed has been put to death in Virginia’s electric chair.
Five men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India’s capital were charged with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.
Death row inmates in Japan want to be told of their execution in advance, instead of on the day they are to be hanged, a lawmaker’s survey said.
New Delhi’s police chief on Tuesday demanded the death penalty for rapists amid growing outrage over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a school bus in the city.
At least P5 million has been committed by 20 mayors in Pampanga and 1,500 provincial employees to Gov. Lilia Pineda in a fund drive to help raise blood money for a Kapampangan facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
Death penalty should not be revived. That was the stand of Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero and Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Teddy Casino when asked Thursday about calls to revive the death penalty.
Nahinuklog kaayo ko sa mga ginikanan ni anhing Cyrish Magalang kinsa bag-o lang nga migradwar isip cum laude sa University of Santo Tomas (UST) unya gi-attempt paglugos sa magsoon unya gipatay didto sa Bacoor, Cavite.
