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by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Nebraska on Tuesday carried out America’s first execution using fentanyl — the opioid at the center of the country’s deadly overdose crisis — as part of a previously-untested, four-drug combination. Carey Dean Moore, sentenced to death for two 1979 murders, was the first prisoner executed in the Midwestern state in 21 years, in what was its first ever lethal injection. The 60-year-old was […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Nebraska was scheduled Tuesday to carry out America’s first execution employing the opioid fentanyl as part of a four-drug combination that has never before been used. The powerful synthetic painkiller — a key cause of death in America’s opioid and heroin abuse epidemic — was to be the second injection administered to Carey Dean Moore, sentenced to death for two 1979 murders. Moore is […]
by Sammy Ketz Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Every Friday in Iraq, a gripping show on state television beams the alleged confessions of death-row jihadists into homes around the country. At peak viewing time, it broadcasts gruesome images of their purported crimes before interviewing the convicts, who appear clad in orange or yellow jumpsuits. Baghdad declared victory against the Islamic State group in December, after years of fighting to regain vast stretches of territory […]
(Agence France Presse) — Malaysia has granted a last-minute stay of execution to a convicted Filipino murderer following an appeal by Manila, Philippine officials said Saturday. Ejah Jaafar, whose age was not given, was scheduled to hang on Friday after being found guilty of murder in Malaysia in 2006. But following an appeal by the Philippine mission in Kuala Lumpur, Jaafar’s case was referred back to the pardons board in Sabah state, according to a […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the world decreased overall. The human rights organisation estimates the Asian giant alone killed “thousands” of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports. All other countries together executed at least 1,032 people last year — a decline of 37 percent compared to 2015. China was one of […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the regime of a “policy of extermination.” Titled “Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison,” Amnesty’s damning report is based on interviews with 84 witnesses, including guards, detainees, and judges. It found that at least once a week between 2011 and 2015, groups of up to […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Human Rights Watch criticized Kuwait on Thursday for ending a moratorium on executions by hanging seven people, saying the action was part of a worrying regional rise in use of the death penalty. “Kuwait’s killing of seven people on January 25 highlights the alarming trend in the region for countries to return to or increasingly use the death penalty,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East director. The executions on […]
CILACAP, Indonesia (AFP) — More foreign drug convicts could imminently face the firing squad in Indonesia after authorities said Monday they were ready to carry out a new round of executions following a hiatus. Nationals from Pakistan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe are expected to be put to death alongside Indonesians soon, but officials say no Europeans or Australians will face the firing squad in the third round of executions under President Joko Widodo. Indonesia sparked international […]
Activists and supporters gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila on Tuesday (April 28) in a last-minute appeal for clemency for a Filipina facing execution. Filipina migrant Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two children, was arrested with 2.6 kilograms of heroin at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010. Hundreds of supporters marched to the embassy gate, carrying placards and banners urging Indonesia to stop the executions. “We’re very sad, we’re very outraged that the execution is […]
THE lawyer of a Filipina woman on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking says her execution could happen soon, as her family paid her a visit on Sunday (April 26). This was the second visit to Nusakambangan island, a maximum high security prison in Indonesia, by Mary Jane Veloso’s family since she was sent to the island on Friday (April 24). Veloso’s lawyer, Edre U Olalia, while waiting for the permit to cross by […]
