US executions Executions in the US are at a 25-year low.
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The 47 executions over the weekend were one of the country's largest mass executions.
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Arkansas executions Arkansas last night held the nation's first back-to-back executions in 17 years.
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Videos of executions were shown after the executions — and children were invited to watch inside mosques.
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There were just 23 executions carried out in the U.S. in 2017, a slight uptick from 20 executions in 2016, but far below the 98 executions states carried out in 1999.
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If the executions are carried out, they would be the first dual U.S. executions in 17 years.
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Most of the executions on Saturday were by beheading; they were not public, unlike most Saudi executions.
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"To attempt eight executions with Midazolam -- including four multiple executions -- is unheard of and reckless," Dunham told CNN.
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"There have been reports of botched executions, failed executions, with grave consequences on physical integrity," de Frouville said.
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It is a theocracy built on almost four decades of public executions, amputation sentences and executions of minors.
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While there has been a slight rise in executions since 2016, when the number hit an all-time-low at 20 executions, there has been a general downward trend of executions since the early 2000s.
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This year had the second-lowest number of executions since 603, with 20 executions in 2016 being the lowest.
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Harris County, Texas — the nation's most prolific county for executions — had no executions for the first time since 1985.
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TV. "Now you're going to carry out five executions in the span of five weeks, three executions in the span of five days with personnel that have not carried out any executions at all," he continued.
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Only eight states conducted executions in 2018, with Texas accounting for more than half (13) of the 25 total executions.
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That increase was mainly fueled by executions in Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, where 89% of last year's executions took place.
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Capital punishment is already legal in Oklahoma, but executions were put on hold after the state botched its last three executions.
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Although the executions were supposed to begin on Monday, federal and state courts have so far halted the executions up until now.
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In Ohio and Oklahoma, inmates have died thrashing, screaming and gasping after botched executions, resulting in both states temporarily halting all executions.
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Another judge blocks executions A state judge in Arkansas effectively stopped the executions Friday night, citing concerns over the lethal injection method.
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Barr said the federal executions would rely on a single drug, pentobarbital, instead of the three-drug cocktail typically used in executions.
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Similarly, there were just 20 executions in 2016, a decline from the 98 executions in 1999, the highest in the modern era.
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On Friday, Agnes Callamard, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions issued a last-minute push to halt their executions.
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The US was the only country in the Americas to carry out executions, and carried out 28 executions, the lowest number since 1991.
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Actual executions remain isolated to certain parts of the country: Georgia and Texas, for example, accounted for 22015 percent of all 215 executions.
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Actual executions remain isolated to certain parts of the country: Georgia and Texas, for example, accounted for 80 percent of all 2016 executions.
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A separate federal court ruled to stop all the executions, only to see a higher court overturn that order, allowing the executions to proceed.
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That figure accounted for at least 40 percent of the executions in 2015, compared with less than four percent for drug-related executions in 2010.
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Since then, the US has carried out 1,000 executions using lethal injection, including 542 by Texas, with an additional 171 executions relying on another method.
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When the number of executions was rising in the late 1990s, several states held double and even triple executions on the same day, including Arkansas.
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So far, four of the eight scheduled executions have been stayed by courts, three executions have been carried out, and one is scheduled for Thursday.
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The drug has been used for executions that mostly drew little outrage, but it was also part of a handful of executions that went awry.
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So many executions in such a short amount of time is "unprecedented" in the United States, said a spokesman for a group that monitors US executions.
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Executions elsewhere Though execution drugs are harder to come by, and the number of annual US executions has dropped each year since 2009, capital punishment continues.
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Company doesn't want midazolam used in executions Many drug companies don't want their products used in executions and have restricted access to products for this purpose.
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Since Texas resumed executions in 1982, only three death row inmates have had their sentences commuted to life in prison within days of their scheduled executions.
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At least 690 executions were carried out in 20 countries in 2018, which was a 31% decrease from 2017's total of 20093 executions or more.
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The group found that 35 reports of public executions came from one particular river bank, with executions taking place at the unidentified location every decade since 1960s.
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This compared with 530 executions in 2016, but Guterres said he remained "alarmed by the high number" of executions and death sentences issued by Iran's Revolutionary Courts.
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Several U.S. states use midazolam in executions, including Oklahoma and Arizona, where witnesses said inmates during past executions appeared to twist in pain on death row gurneys.
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Arkansas's difficulty securing witnesses for its scheduled executions offers the occasion for its state legislature to consider allowing television coverage of its forthcoming, two-a-day executions.
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Seven states carried out 22 executions in 2019, and the federal government had none despite its attempt in July to restart executions after a 16-year hiatus.
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There are many more executions that are not included in Amnesty's global count, which is restricted to "judicial" executions — those that result from a formal trial process, whether or not that process meets international standards of fairness — and excludes some secret executions and those where no trial took place.
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Several U.S. states have used midazolam in executions, including Oklahoma and Arizona, where witnesses said inmates during past executions appeared to twist in pain on death-row gurneys.
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Shanmugam said the higher number of executions last year was also partly due to a hiatus in executions over several years as the government reviewed the death penalty.
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The lawyers for the inmates challenged the short timeframe of the planned executions and the use of the drug, which has been linked to instances of flawed executions.
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In the midst of legal battles with drug suppliers, inmates fighting to avoid executions and courts issuing temporary stays, Arkansas carried out only four of the eight scheduled executions.
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Mr. Hutchinson's latest effort to restart executions came after the state's attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, told him that the eight men had no additional legal challenges to their executions.
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It also poses several public safety problems, from increasing the risk that these executions will be botched to the potential risk of trauma for prison personnel who'll oversee the executions.
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Mr. Kaine personally opposes the death penalty, but he oversaw 11 executions during his tenure as governor, and Virginia has had the second-highest number of executions since the 1970s.
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California instituted a moratorium on executions, New Hampshire became the 21st state to abolish the death penalty entirely and Indiana has gone a decade with no executions, the report said.
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Oklahoma, which has put executions on hold to fix flaws, has recommended executions be held at least a week apart to allow staff time to review the proceedings and decompress.
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Since 1976, when the government placed its moratorium on executions, the government has regularly advertised the hangman job, hoping to have a candidate trained and ready in case executions resumed.
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The Justice Department announced last month that it planned to resume federal executions after a yearslong hiatus and had scheduled five executions for later this year and early 2020, but that's expected to be tied up in a lengthy legal challenge — likely delaying any federal executions until the legal fight is over.
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Arkansas is turning to rotary clubs to recruit witnesses for executions Arkansas is turning to rotary clubs to recruit witnesses for executions Arkansas is having trouble recruiting witnesses for the death row executions the state has slated for a 10-day period next month, so it's looking to rotary clubs for potential enlistees.
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The number of executions in such a short amount of time had been described as "unprecedented" by a group that monitors US executions, and it unleashed a flurry of legal actions.
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Such experiments have resulted in numerous botched executions — widely viewed as inhumane — and now Pfizer has joined over 20 other drug companies that no longer want their products associated with executions.
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Last year's 20 executions marked the lowest number of executions in the nation's 40-year recent history of the punishment, beating the record low of 26 set just the previous year.
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READ: The Trump administration is bringing back federal executions after 16 years But public support for the death penalty has waned over the years, caused in part by horrifically botched executions.
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For the fourth consecutive year there will have been fewer than 230 executions in the United States; before this recent stretch, executions had been above that level every year since 22015.
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The courts varied in their reasoning, with one court raising issues over a drug used in the executions and another siding with pharmaceutical companies contesting the use of their drug in executions.
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The Humans Rights Watch put out a report in 2013 that said that over 200 executions were not even claimed, and last year saw the highest number of executions in 15 years.
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Missouri: In February, the state's appellate court ruled that prison officials are not obligated to reveal the source of the drugs they use for executions, clearing the way for executions to resume.
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According to Austin Sarat's book Gruesome Spectacles, while about 303 percent of all executions between 1890 and 2010 were botched, about 7 percent of lethal injections — double the rate for all executions — were.
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Thursday's announcement by DOJ to schedule the executions of five death row inmates follows an effort begun by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the federal government to restart executions by lethal injection.
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Of the 977 known executions in Iran last year, more than 80% were for drug crimes, and in Saudi Arabia—where executions in 2015 saw a 20 year high—it was around half.
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In 1987, the busiest year for executions in Louisiana since the modern era of the American death penalty, eight prisoners were put to death—nearly a third of the nation's executions that year.
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States carried out 20 executions in 5933, and the federal government had none, an 80 percent decline from when 98 were carried out in 1999, the peak year for executions since the 21s.
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" Yet, as Judge Tanya Chutkan explained in her opinion, the Justice Department plans to conduct federal executions using "a single procedure for all federal executions rather than using the FDPA's state prescribed procedure.
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Arkansas is following this playbook to defend rushing through eight executions with a drug that science and experience tell us is wholly inadequate for the task and has already resulted in gruesome executions.
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The executions will be the first in Arkansas since 2005.
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The lopsided death toll immediately raised suspicions of extrajudicial executions.
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Death penalty opponents were quick to criticize the planned executions.
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The six extrajudicial executions bore many similarities, the group wrote.
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For decades, Moscow blamed Nazi Germany for the mass executions.
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Activists say many of those were executions, which police deny.
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Amnesty called the executions violations of Indonesian and international law.
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Instead, space for dissent is disappearing and executions are rising.
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Rights groups accused police of summary executions, which authorities deny.
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The five other executions were for rape and sexual assault.
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The high court stayed the executions of Davis and Ward.
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Some 180,000 civilians were killed in German bombings and executions.
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She described a madhouse in which children watch public executions.
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Asa Hutchinson scheduled the executions for before the expiration date.
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Will executions ramp up again over the next four years?
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Connecticut's Supreme Court upheld its ban on executions in May.
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Midazolam, critics say, contributed to botched executions in other states.
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States have been having consistent trouble finding drugs for executions.
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" Elsheikh "earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions.
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"Mass executions are a legitimate means of revolution," one remarks.
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Only three federal executions have been carried out since 1988.
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The state has chose nitrogen to carry out the executions.
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Greg Abbott, who has not granted clemency in 19 executions.
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Salauddiner Ghora lauds the public executions on Facebook and Twitter.
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Saturday's executions took place in 12 sites around Saudi Arabia.
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The first of the executions is scheduled for Dec. 5.
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The truth is, Castro repressed dissent with arrests and executions.
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Jay Inslee, a Democrat, ordered a moratorium on all executions.
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In 2018, Tennessee used the electric chair for two executions.
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"Nights with fewer than 100 executions were rare," Slezkine writes.
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Other executions are scheduled for Monday and Thursday next week.
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Some have been sentenced to death, although executions are rare.
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Justice Breyer recorded opposition in only three of these executions.
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Popular support for capital punishment has dwindled along with executions.
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Researchers say Mr. Kim has ordered more than 300 executions.
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" Others wore T-shirts with the slogan "Stop police executions.
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But only 13 executions have been carried out since 1978.
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Agnes Callamard, U.N. Special Rapporteur on summary executions, said a one-size-fits-all model of economic development exacerbated inequality and was a factor in the rising tide of arbitrary executions and extrajudicial murders.
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The state's effort to carry out the executions hit a legal setback Monday as the Arkansas Supreme Court put two executions on hold and the US Supreme Court refused to intervene in its favor.
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The state's mixture of drugs used in executions has brought legal challenges, and Baker's ruling on Saturday also raised questions about whether one of them, midazolam, was effective enough at preventing pain during executions.
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But as one of four states that have a moratorium on executions, and with Governor Inslee who has vowed to not allow an execution during his term, there will be no executions anytime soon.
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Although human rights groups like Amnesty International condemned the executions, which are carried out without advance warning in Japan, some attack victims only wish they had been notified about the executions ahead of time.
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The United States was again the only country in the Americas to go through with executions in 2015, though Amnesty officials said steps in Pennsylvania and Nebraska to abolish or halt executions were positive.
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Plans by President Donald Trump's administration to resume federal executions in December after a 16-year hiatus were dashed by a U.S. judge who halted the scheduled executions of four inmates on death row.
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This has played out in the Arkansas cases: The medical supplier McKesson contested Arkansas's planned use of vecuronium bromide, which the company supplied, in the executions — leading one court to put the executions on hold.
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Even though 31 states still have the death penalty, only about a third have conducted executions in the past few years for reasons including the drug sales ban and legal battles that have halted executions.
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These are the first two executions of 2018, as far as we know; information about imminent executions is not made available, and the prison service announces the number of hangings only in its annual report.
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Without Midazolam, Arkansas would have no way to carry out executions.
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Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued a moratorium on executions in March.
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Asa Hutchinson denied that anything had gone wrong during the executions.
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In 4423, several executions, all employing midazolam, were widely considered botched.
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CNN has not been able to independently verify reports of executions.
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The planned executions will run from April 17 to April 27.
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But it's on pace this year to conduct even more executions.
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In 2014, numerous executions, all employing midazolam, were widely considered botched.
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Executions began with officials' priorities and ended when those priorities changed.
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The government defends such executions as a powerful tool for deterrence.
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But the executions were not out of character for Saudi Arabia.
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So far this year there have been 10 executions, she said.
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The pace of executions in Vietnam looks unlikely to let up.
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What's worse, it's not clear if midazolam even works for executions.
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Together they accounted for almost 90% of all executions in 2015.
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However our new governor has recently declared a moratorium on executions.
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If that wasn't enough, the festival ended with the ceremonial executions.
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You see executions in the street, you see dead bodies everywhere.
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The executions have been scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020.
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Midazolam has been used in several botched executions in other states.
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The state has carried out six executions so far in 2016.
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Congolese authorities deny that it conducted the executions or dumped bodies.
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This spelled one of the country's biggest mass executions to that.
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In 23, several executions, all employing midazolam, were widely considered botched.
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Asa Hutchinson, there will not be any more executions this month.
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The Arkansas governor could also issue a moratorium on all executions.
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It resumed executions last year and put two inmates to death.
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Three executions in the 1990s were by electrocution, state records showed.
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The prison carries out executions and houses inmates on death row.
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That drug had not previously been used by Virginia in executions.
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Such units have been repeatedly accused of abuses, including summary executions.
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Many of Pakistan's 326 executions were for crimes other than terrorism.
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These were the first executions in Oregon in over three decades.
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The result of those experiments was an uptick in botched executions.
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Most executions by lethal injection take between ten and twenty minutes.
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That review resulted in what effectively was a freeze on executions.
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Some executions have taken place after an attack by Islamist militants.
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By the end of 2016, there were executions almost every month.
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Mr. Castro defended the executions as necessary to solidify the revolution.
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Since 1999, Texas' executions have been done exclusively out of Huntsville.
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I've witnessed six total executions: three electrocutions and three lethal injections.
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There were no protests in Egypt over the executions on Tuesday.
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Iran was followed by Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq in executions.
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In the end, it decided against adopting the drug for executions.
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Three of the eight executions have been delayed, possibly for years.
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The Iranian regime has stepped up executions dramatically in recent years.
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Death-penalty abolitionists have highlighted racial disparities in executions ever since.
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They were among eight executions scheduled over 10 days this month.
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Boys have been forced to watch executions and recruited to fight.
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Speaking to reporters after the two executions, a spokesman for Gov.
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Midazolam has been used in executions in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma.
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In 2202, an estimated 2628,28500 political prisoners suffered extra-judicial executions.
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The first of the four executions was set for Dec. 9.
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During his first term, Rouhani presided over more than 3,000 executions.
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That meant that the executions she said occurred never actually happened.
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Vecuronium is a paralytic drug that is sometimes used in executions.
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Public executions of 20 suspected witches took place at the site.
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A department spokesman said 40 vials is enough for two executions.
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But the state went forward with four of eight planned executions.
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What really distinguishes MS-13 is the spectacle of its executions.
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This has played out in the Arkansas cases: The medical supplier McKesson contested Arkansas's planned use of vecuronium bromide, which the company supplied, in the executions — leading one court to briefly put the executions on hold.
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Barr also directed the federal government to adopt a new protocol for executions -- similar to what several states use -- of replacing a three-drug lethal injection previously used in federal executions with a single drug, pentobarbital.
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Florida is one of the few states in the U.S. that has carried out executions in recent years, in spite of a nationwide shortage of drugs typically used in executions, such as pentobarbital and sodium thiopental.
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Last year, Utah approved the use of firing squads for executions if drugs aren't available, while Oklahoma became the first state to approve nitrogen gas for executions if lethal injection drugs become unavailable or are deemed unconstitutional.
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The Guardian reports that Nevada will execute Scott Dozier, a convicted double murderer, after the state put executions on hold for more than a decade due to drug manufacturers' opposition to providing drugs for use in executions.
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Midazolam has been used in several recent botched executions, including in Ohio.
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A view of the Roman theater in Palmyra, where ISIS staged executions.
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You&aposve got to stop this, not just executions but the crimes.
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Relevant specialties like anesthesiology will kick out a member who facilitates executions.
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Alabama had previously carried out executions by either electrocution or lethal injection.
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Nonetheless, it may get technically harder for Nebraska to carry out executions.
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Al-Ahmed described Tuesday's executions as a politically motivated message to Iran.
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Since taking power in 2011 Kim, has ordered at least 340 executions.
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Indonesia is again preparing to carry out a fresh round of executions.
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Another problem is that the quick timetable could lead to botched executions.
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It has also been employed in executions in Florida, Ohio, and Alabama.
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A US State Department official expressed concern over the executions on Tuesday.
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Refusing to carry out the executions would have got Nicolás killed himself.
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Saudi officials denied that sectarianism had played any role in the executions.
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Jordan and Pakistan resumed executions late in 2014, mostly in terrorism cases.
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The region is responsible for two-thirds of the world's known executions.
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Although executions are declining, the number of death sentences has hardly changed.
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Pakistan has dropped from 326 executions in 2015 to 14 last year.
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The recent downward trend in state-sanctioned executions may prove short lived.
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The current halt on executions was put in place in October 2015.
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The state no longer relies on the three-drug combination for executions.
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The Vatican strongly opposes executions, which have increased since Rouhani took office.
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After hearing the evidence ... the court is compelled to stay these executions.
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There were just 20 executions this year, the lowest number since 1991.
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There were 220,000 attempted WannaCry executions during the outage, he told TechCrunch.
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The drug has been used in flawed executions in Oklahoma and Arizona.
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Before and after executions, he provided counsel when no one else bothered.
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Death row inmates nationwide have challenged the use of midazolam in executions.
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Even before the latest round, executions were at a 20-year high.
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This marks one of Iran's most atrocious mass executions in recent times.
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Arkansas is rushing to carry out multiple executions, procedurally sound or not,
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Texas has held the most executions, at more than 560 since 303.
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Critics dispute that and say executions are taking place, with zero accountability.
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Since then, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights has documented 67 executions.
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"The regime uses executions as a vengeance tool," said al-Wefaq's Alaswad.
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The first of the five scheduled executions is set for Dec. 9.
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The increase brought the total number of executions up to 1,634 people.
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The resolution, to be clear, was not solely focused on LGBT executions.
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Public executions aren't part of the history of Mississippi in her lifetime.
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Human rights groups say many executions were carried out after flawed trials.
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The executions could escalate tensions with Saudi Arabia's regional Shiite rival, Iran.
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The executions and torture perpetrated in Chile remain fresh in everyone's memories.
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Whether televised or not, executions are always public by their very nature.
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The drug has been used in dozens of executions without major incident.
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Of the executions Prejean tweets about, many do end up going forward.
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The increase in executions came amid some trends in the opposite direction.
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The title alluded to investment capital, not, as it sounds, to executions.
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A spokeswoman for Hunter declined to comment on when executions might resume.
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Heading south, Luz confronts a string of horrors: shootouts, drug lords, executions.
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She was never charged in connection with the executions or the purges.
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However, there were no recorded executions that year, according to Amnesty International.
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Both cases come out of Texas, the state with the most executions.
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The U.N. report said many of them appeared to be extrajudicial executions.
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In heinous murders and crimes like that, the government often publicizes executions.
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In the United States, executions have been on the decline for years.
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Activists say many of the killings were executions, but police deny this.
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Three more executions are scheduled; others have been halted by court rulings.
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Grover Cleveland was a hangman who performed executions as a county sheriff.
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The group advertises its brutality with highly produced videos of gruesome executions.
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During my years as Ohio's Republican attorney general, I oversaw 18 executions.
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The action brings the number of delayed executions this year to four.
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Last month, he called for public executions by guillotine of convicted murderers.
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Last year, the state carried out more than half of America's executions.
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Executions in the kingdom are carried out by beheading, sometimes in public.
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A federal district court blocked four of these executions shortly before Thanksgiving.
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One cable alleges that Suharto gave the orders for certain mass executions.
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Arkansas planned to use a cocktail of three drugs in the executions.
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Arkansas has set two more executions for April 24 and April 27.
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Groups such as Reprieve and Human Rights Watch also condemned the executions.
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A blizzard of legal challenges resulted in three of the executions being halted and raised broader questions about the lethal injection drug mixes and death chamber protocols in U.S. executions, which hit a quarter-century low in 2016.
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Nearly three-quarters of the 2017 executions were carried out after US President Donald Trump's visit to Riyadh in May, according to numbers provided by Reprieve, with the rate of executions appearing to speed up after his visit.
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But only six have an established one-drug protocol, including Texas, Georgia and Missouri, while two others where executions are on hold have plans to use a single drug for executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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"We call on the Philippines authorities to adopt with immediate effect the necessary measures to protect all persons from targeted killings and extrajudicial executions," the new UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Agnes Callamard, said in the report.
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"We call on the Philippines authorities to adopt with immediate effect the necessary measures to protect all persons from targeted killings and extrajudicial executions," the new U.N. Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Agnes Callamard, said in the report.
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While their execution data is not publicly available, Dia Hua estimates there were around 2,400 executions in 2013 — the most recent data the group has published, and a relatively low figure compared to the 12,000 executions in 2002.
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It said executions are carried out in prison camps to incite fear and intimidation among potential escapees, and public executions are carried out for seemingly minor crimes, including the theft of farm produce such as corn and rice.
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He admitted to participating in several executions as part of a firing squad.
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Since 1972, Texas has carried out the most executions in the United States.
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In criticizing these federal executions, Biden is fighting a monster he helped create.
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The vast majority of executions are carried out by a handful of states.
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Newspapers handed out extra editions about the executions to crowds at train stations.
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Japan&aposs Justice Ministry announced the executions of Asahara, 63, and his followers.
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Executions for Moore have been scheduled before, but were thwarted by legal issues.
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Ohio officials have relied on a new three-drug protocol to restart executions.
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Arkansas executions Maybe this is a case of making up for lost time.
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And Saudi Arabia should immediately ban all executions of children and child offenders.
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The amphitheater has also been used by the jihadist group for numerous executions.
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Rights groups said the executions in Egypt were carried out after unfair trials.
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Midazolam has also been deployed in botched executions in Arizona, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
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"Our country does not participate in mass executions," lawyers for the men maintained.
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As executions dwindle, the discussion about America's system of capital punishment has shifted.
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The report recommended that Oklahoma space out executions by at least seven days.
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The process allegedly resulted in abuse, torture and in some cases, summary executions.
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Clandestine reports on blogs and social media describe grisly executions and public floggings.
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Our biggest video games have made executions, stabbings, headshots, and eviscerations completely ordinary.
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The prison's main yard has been well-known as a site for executions.
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Those 14 men were on the list of the 37 executions announced Tuesday.
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Had the Broncos lost, Manning's staunchest defenders would have called for public executions.
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If it doesn't, extrajudicial executions are a total no-no in all circumstances.
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South Dakota&aposs last two executions were in 2012, and it used pentobarbital.
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According to the Dallas News, Texas will use pentobarbital in executions for now.
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Texas conducted the last successful dual executions in the United States in 2000.
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In 2014, several executions with a protocol including midazolam were widely considered botched.
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Only 2023 executions were carried out in 2016, the lowest number since 1991.
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No more executions are scheduled between now and the end of the year.
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They were the first such executions in over two decades and sparked protests.
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In some cases, they came back to carry out mass executions of civilians.
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Arkansas then scheduled eight executions in 11 days, after no execution since 2005.
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In 1988, Saddam responded to an uprising with executions and poison gas attacks.
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Related: Did British Soldiers Carry Out Summary Executions and Rape Civilians in Iraq?
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Midazolam has been used in troubled executions in Arizona, Alabama, Ohio and Oklahoma.
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Throughout most of that time, we relied on hanging to carry out executions.
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Critics say executions are taking place with no accountability, allegations the police reject.
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That work eventually saved hundreds of men from constitutionally and legally flawed executions.
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ISIS quickly put its ugly brand on it with public executions, including beheadings.
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A Ponari burning pit where Nazis attempted to destroy evidence of mass executions.
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" Carson said he didn't condone the executions by "any stretch of the imagination.
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Human rights groups have raised the alarm over alleged executions by security forces.
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It shows several executions and threatens the UK and Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Nevada, like many states, has struggled to carry out executions in recent years.
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Western human rights groups often criticize Iran for its high number of executions.
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Critics say executions are taking place with zero accountability, allegations the police reject.
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Many have provided harrowing testimonies of executions and rapes by Myanmar security forces.
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The government typically informs the embassies of foreign convicts days before their executions.
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The shortage has caused Ohio to halt executions until at least next year.
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One solution to the problem is all too telling: television broadcasts of executions.
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In Iran and Saudi Arabia, many of the executions were for nonlethal crimes.
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Amnesty said drug-trafficking offenses were the main reason for executions in Iran.
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Most executions in Japan happen by hanging, and there aren't many successful appeals.
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When did you find out that the drug was being used in executions?
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I mean, there are many countries [that] don't have life [sentences] or executions.
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Tom Wolf (D), who has placed a moratorium on executions in the state.
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They've documented instances of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and extrajudicial executions of civilians.
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Even as the war nears its end, the pace of executions is increasing.
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That's less than a quarter of the 255 executions carried out in 245.
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That's why we halted executions in our states, and we call on Gov.
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Many executions in Saudi Arabia are done by beheading in a public square.
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General Hifter's forces have looted and burned homes, and carried out summary executions.
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In 22015, less than 4 percent of Saudi executions were for drug crimes.
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In 203, less than 4 percent of Saudi executions were for drug crimes.
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Survivors have reported summary executions, indiscriminate rape and the wholesale destruction of villages.
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Did he apologize to the Central Park Five for calling for their executions?
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"There are sufficient drugs to begin the process of scheduling executions," he said.
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Three executions by firing squad have taken place in the state since 1976.
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There have been just two federal executions since then — in 2001 and 2003.
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States carried out 20 executions last year, the lowest figure in 25 years.
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Human rights groups have accused the police of systematic executions and cover-ups.
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Thousands of Yazidis fell victim to mass executions and disappeared into mass graves.
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Most executions involving midazolam drew little sustained criticism, but problems emerged during some.
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The suspect played a role in the 'Erntefest' (Harvest Festival) executions on Nov.
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Purges and executions remain an important feature of political life in the North.
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But the Trump administration has been aggressive in its efforts to resume executions.
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Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, a coolly efficient warden who's overseen some dozen executions.
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Human rights groups fear that the pace of executions is set to rise.
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"There are higher values than ensuring that executions run on time," she wrote.
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Plans to begin executions again after a 20-year hiatus are already underway.
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And, as is so frequently the case, the executions didn't go as planned.
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There were just 22 actual executions in 493, the smallest number since 249.
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There were just 20 actual executions in 2016, the smallest number since 1991.
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The rapid pacing of the planned executions prompted a flurry of legal challenges and renewed a debate over executions in the United States, with lawyers for the inmates arguing that Arkansas was in an unseemly rush that offended standards of decency.
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The arguments over drugs The eight Arkansas inmates -- like many before them across the country -- initially fought their executions on the grounds that midazolam does not reliably prevent a painful death and helped contribute to botched executions in other states.
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Oklahoma: The U.S. Supreme Court cleared Oklahoma to use the controversial sedative midazolam in executions, but due to further legal challenges, ongoing concerns about the state's protocol and its inability to procure the needed drugs, executions have remained on hold.
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Executions last year sank to a 25-year-low, amid a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs driven, in part, by European manufacturers' refusal to sell their products for the purpose of executions, and waning public support for capital punishment.
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Florida is stockpiling a drug, likely for executions, that's never been used before Florida is stockpiling a drug, likely for executions, that's never been used before Much like the rest of the U.S., Florida is running out of lethal-injection cocktails.
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Many of the last-minute legal moves to postpone the executions have focused not on questions of guilt, but on procedural matters, some surrounding the sedative midazolam, part of a three-drug cocktail that has contributed to botched executions elsewhere.
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A federal magistrate judge and a panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati entered rulings this year delaying the executions, but were overruled by the full Sixth Circuit, which said the executions could proceed.
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They asked the court to stop any executions until a proper protocol is implemented.
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By describing some abortions as executions, President Trump paints all abortions as willfully evil.
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Two more executions — of Jack Jones and Marcel Williams — are set for next Monday.
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Nebraska has struggled for decades to carry out executions, despite its deep conservative leanings.
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There were 993 executions in 23 countries in 2017, down 39 percent from 2015.
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In 2017, Saudi Arabia carried out 146 executions, 59 for non-violent drug crimes.
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Between 2014 and July 2015, SOHR documented 143 executions of ISIS members for desertion.
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Saudi Arabia should enact legal reforms to halt all executions of offenders without exception.
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Asa Hutchinson originally scheduled four double executions over an 11-day period in April.
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I opened handwritten eyewitness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.
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It's not based on a substantive, urgent demand for the executions to take place.
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Trump last week appeared to cast doubt on the news reports about the executions.
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Total buyback executions among all companies this year were up 26% through mid-July.
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None of the families appear to have commented publicly since the executions were announced.
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United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia to halt the executions.
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"We've kind of moved into the realm of human experimentation with executions," O'Brien said.
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The Justice Department said that additional executions will be scheduled at a later date.
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AMNESTY International released its annual report on death sentences and executions on April 12th.
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It's perhaps one of the museum x AR trend's best, and most intoxicating, executions.
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Some states have sought different executions methods if lethal injection drugs are not available.
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Judges have already blocked two executions, though not because of the lethal injection issue.
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Below are some statistics facts that reflect the current state of the American executions.
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Executions skyrocketed, to the extent that nearly 1,000 people were hanged in 2015 alone.
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Midazolam has been used in several problematic executions in Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Ohio.
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Wrongful executions have stirred particular outrage, though the death penalty itself remains widely popular.
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A number of states have effectively halted executions because of concerns over the process.
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Cameroon regularly sentences people to death but has not carried out executions for years.
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Three of them, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, accounted for 90% of known executions.
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But 2016 saw a precipitous drop in the number of executions in the state.
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The state has already scheduled nine executions in the first six months of 2017.
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In recent research, I and my collaborators examined all American executions from 1890-2010.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, earlier this year declared a moratorium on executions.
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Tehran also holds a dubious distinction of being a global leader in child executions.
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Globally, Amnesty recorded the lowest number of executions in the past decade in 2018.
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The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer closed off the last official source of drugs for executions.
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I began to feel the weight of this undertaking while practicing for the executions.
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"I don't think any of the executions you've identified here actually happened," he added.
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Residents of Massachusetts, by the same token, aren't morally culpable for executions in Texas.
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These potential swift executions pose less of a moral dilemma to the West, frankly.
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His captors showed him DVDs and videos on their cellphones of executions, he said.
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Of those states, Texas has conducted the most executions, having administered 533 since 1976.
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Residents and refugees have described summary executions, arbitrary arrests and rape in the operation.
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Indonesia imposed a moratorium on executions for five years before resuming them in 2013.
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The government rejects accusations of systematic abuses including executions, planted evidence and falsified reports.
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We in this country are unaccustomed to mass executions carried out under government auspices.
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"Anything is possible," said Peter Costa, president of Empire Executions Inc in New York.
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Executions will still be carried out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
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Arkansas' Department of Corrections relies on a three-drug protocol to carry out executions.
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But per capita, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan's executions outrun China's by a mile.
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The executions were a small fraction of the atrocities the Islamic State carried out.
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And the number of executions doubled to 227 in 22 from 20163 in 22016.
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Those items include Islamic State publications, recordings of jihadi anthems and images of executions.
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That divide between intentions and tragedy porn executions won't be Orange's legacy for everyone.
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The number of executions has fallen to 23 in 2017, from 98 in 1999.
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Police deny allegations by human rights advocates that many of the killings were executions.
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He profiled an American woman who traveled around the United States to watch executions.
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Season 2 has been dutifully brutal, complete with ample torture, rapes, executions and murders.
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Callimachi: And we found one of the swords that they used — for executions, right?
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Texas has played a major part in the decrease in executions throughout the country.
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"All these substantive debates are swirling around when it comes to executions," he said.
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It is not clear where executions will take place after Florence Prison is closed.
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These were two evil people, and their executions did not bother me at all.
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They'd come in in the morning, and we'd do three executions on consecutive nights.
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Alabama carries out executions by lethal injections unless an inmate requests the electric chair.
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The American Medical Association, however, strongly opposes physician participation in executions on ethical grounds.
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Barring doctors from executions will only increase the risk that prisoners will unduly suffer.
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Last year, only five states carried out executions: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas.
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Common methods included electric shock, beatings, mock executions and witnessing the torture of others.
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The site was used for many of the group's terror activities including public executions.
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The federal executions would have been the first conducted in more than 16 years.
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Some previous reports of executions and purges in the reclusive state have proven inaccurate.
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The executions were strongly condemned by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings.
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The difficulty in that argument is that nobody knows what happened before the executions.
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Many of these companies outright refuse to sell their products for use in executions.
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The court hearing Roane blocked the inmates' executions while the litigation was still pending.
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However, along with the general decrease of executions, there are also points of concern.
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Abbott has allowed 30 executions during his time as Texas governor, his office said.
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Twenty-two executions were carried out during the year, down from 25 in 2018.
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Texas conducted nine executions, while Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia conducted three apiece in 2019.
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And Texas and Georgia alone carried out 80 percent of all executions this year.
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US executions have been on the decline since 1935, when states killed 197 prisoners.
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Johnson joins two other inmates whose executions, initially set for Monday, were also stayed.
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Will the people of Alabama allow these executions to go forward in their name, or will they, in the name of all that is good, and all that is right, demand that Governor Bentley immediately declare a halt to all state executions?
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The West Point study found an indication of distress even in the most gruesome media items: a decline in portrayals of executions of captured enemy fighters and a rise in items showing executions of Islamic State fighters accused of spying or treachery.
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The 25 executions carried out this year were in just eight states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — reflecting the relative popularity of capital punishment in the South and especially in Texas, which alone accounted for 13 executions.
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Although Arkansas says little about executions, officials in Little Rock were candid about the rationale behind the scheduling: The state's supply of midazolam, one of the drugs that it needs to carry out the executions, will expire at the end of April.
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"The basic material hallmarks or elements in the extrajudicial executions in the Davao Death Squad in Davao City and in the continued extrajudicial executions after President Duterte became the president are too numerous and too obvious to escape scant attention," the complaint says.
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Southern states have carried out 81 percent of the 1,429 executions in the US since 1976, according to the Marshall Project, and three states — Texas, Oklahoma, and Virginia — have been responsible for more than half of all the executions nationwide in that time.
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China does not report its total number of executions, which it regards as a secret.
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Last year, the Saudi government carried out its highest number of executions in two decades.
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Now, nearly every major professional organization for physicians bars its members from participating in executions.
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Kay Ivey, who claim a pro-life mantle even as they support state-sponsored executions.
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They also approved by a narrow margin a separate measure intended to speed up executions.
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Before their executions, the soldiers identified themselves by their military service numbers, units and names.
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Executions are rare in Bahrain, a Western allied kingdom tucked between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Paris opposes the death penalty and has asked Baghdad not to carry out the executions.
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The movie follows a prison warden who has spent years participating in death row executions.
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But "no state has ever conducted eight executions" over an 11-day period, Dunham said.
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Beria is the man who was overseeing those arrests and executions in the first place.
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California's governor will halt state executions, granting a reprieve to more than 700 prisoners. Gov.
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Ohio said that it intends to resume executions in January, following a three-year hiatus.
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It remained to be seen whether the executions would provoke a backlash among Sunni ultraconservatives.
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The only consistency implied in the project is that they are all State sanctioned executions.
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Judicial executions in 2016 dropped by more than a third against 2015, according to Amnesty.
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Mr Sisi has ramped up executions and persecutes even supporters who step out of line.
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But over the past several weeks, multiple court rulings have put the executions on hold.
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Six of the executions were by hanging and 29 by firing squad, the group said.
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The 25 countries around the world that carried out executions belong to an isolated minority.
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The executions were mainly for drug-related offences and murder, and some for "sexual offences".
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And we do that by focusing on protecting the order and delivering high-quality executions.
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There have been three executions since then, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
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There are also two executions scheduled for April 24 and one scheduled for April 27.
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In recent weeks, the Saudi government appeared to be preparing the public for the executions.
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As Justice Sotomayor wrote, "there are higher values than ensuring that executions run on time".
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The North rarely issues public announcements related to purges or executions of high-level officials.
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The executions were announced only after they had happened, as is the practice in Japan.
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"Lifelong schizophrenia" Two of the eight executions planned for this month have already been blocked.
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And just two states -- Texas and Georgia -- were responsible for 16 of those 20 executions.
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The company, along with other pharmaceutical makers, objects to its drug being used in executions.
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The men would later come to be known as the Ogoni 9 following their executions.
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Saturday nights are work nights at the dental office where I work/do State executions.
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Five of the seven executions carried out in Texas this year were of white men.
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Ramos said he had documented 56 cases of forced disappearance and extrajudicial executions between Jan.
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Any reasonable party figures Iran would at least consider halting executions prior to such talks.
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Many have provided harrowing testimonies of executions and rapes of civilians by Myanmar security forces.
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But during Taliban rule in the 1990s, the stadium was the site of public executions.
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We found that 3 percent of those executions were botched in one way or another.
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Human rights groups say Duterte's crackdown had led to systematic executions and police cover-ups.
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Under Newsom's latest executive order, individuals will be spared from executions but will remain incarcerated.
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The companies did not disclose which of their drugs Arkansas will use during the executions.
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Those four states were responsible for all but two of America's 383 executions last year.
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Last year the numbers of executions and death sentences nationwide were their lowest in decades.
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This follows Saudi Arabia's pattern of using torture and executions to silence peaceful Shiite dissent.
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It remains difficult to independently verify reports of executions and purges in the secretive North.
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According to state policy, assisting in the executions was voluntary for everyone but the superintendent.
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These were the first executions in Oregon to be administered by use of lethal injections.
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Many are related to Islamic extremist groups, including publications from ISIS and images of executions.
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Prior to Young's lethal injection, Texas had carried out seven executions so far this year.
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The doctor reportedly witnessed more than 138 executions during his time working at the prison.
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There have been 15 executions so far this year, and a few more are scheduled.
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"There are higher values than ensuring that executions run on time," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
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Although those trials and executions were secret at the time, Soviet anti-Semitism was not.
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At the executions, hundreds of townspeople, including children, cheered jubilantly as [if] at a wedding.
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The same drug is used in executions by other states, including Texas, Georgia and Missouri.
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The 2016 incident marked the largest number of executions in a day since the 1980s.
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The grainy black-and-white images of the executions broadcast on American television horrified viewers.
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But President Joko Widodo's administration has this year pledged to resume executions by firing squad.
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The acts included rape, waterboarding, electric shocks, acid burns, mock executions and removal of fingernails.
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"The rise in executions last year is profoundly disturbing," said Salil Shetty, Amnesty's secretary general.
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"The Thai government must immediately halt any plans to carry out further executions," she added.
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If Ward and Davis are not executed, the next executions are scheduled to start Thursday.
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As an agent of the U.N.-backed government, Nur cannot dole out amputations or executions.
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Seven soldiers who took part in the executions were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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He is thought to have ordered the executions of disloyal subordinates including his own uncle.
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Even as the eight-year war ebbs, the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating.
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Senator Kamala Harris of California, a former prosecutor, called for a federal moratorium on executions.
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The executions on Tuesday were carried out in cities around the kingdom, the statement said.
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The novel forgoes international intrigue and ISIS-style executions for a smaller, more domestic tragicomedy.
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Gavin Newsom's move to stop executions in California, the debate about capital punishment has shifted.
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Only 10 states, including Texas, Ohio and Florida, have carried out any executions since 2014.
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Midazolam has been used in several high-profile botched executions, like Joseph Wood's in Arizona.
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Barbiturates were originally used for sedation, but manufacturers began refusing to sell them for executions.
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"I don't think any of the executions you've identified here actually happened," he told her.
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Human rights groups say Duterte's anti-drugs crackdown involved systematic executions and police cover-ups.
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But what will an administration that openly condones extrajudicial killings do with state-sanctioned executions?
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Turning suicides and executions into medical procedures, no matter how humane the motives, is deplorable.
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Oklahoma re-enacted the death penalty in 1973 and, since 1976, has performed 112 executions.
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It was used to justify mass executions during the French Revolution and the Third Reich.
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Dr. Walser spoke recently with visible discomfort about how midazolam had been used in executions.
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A sudden spike in the number of executions this year has heightened the general anxiety.
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In 2014, Oklahoma was the last state to attempt two executions on the same night.
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This year's total was down from the previous modern low, last year, of 22 executions.
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The North rarely issues public announcement related to purges or executions of high-level officials.
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Ten days later, on January 15, the government carried out its first executions since 2010.
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Avocats Sans Frontières France also urged the kingdom to halt further executions of foreign nationals.
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But he added that those executions didn't stop North Koreans from watching South Korean content.
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Rights groups and critics of the campaign say some of the killings were summary executions.
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Most people know it for holding some very famous prisoners — and executions — like Anne Boleyn.
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On top of the executions, fatalities and isolation, basic promises made by recruiters were broken.
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Allegations of police cover-ups, summary executions and planting of drugs and guns are widespread.
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Van Hove had already shown us executions, orgies, adult bodies smeared in blood and feathers.
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We spent months in fear, watching executions and conforming to the Islamic laws of foreigners.
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Nor does he think he owes them an apology for publicly calling for their executions.
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Watchdog groups like the The Dia Hua Foundation, a group focusing on human rights in China, estimates that there were around 2,400 executions in 523 – the most recent data the group has published, and a relatively low figure compared to 12,000 executions in 2002.
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Watchdog groups like the The Dia Hua Foundation, a group focusing on human rights in China, estimates that there were around 2,218 executions in 22015 – the most recent data the group has published, and a relatively low figure compared to 2102,228 executions in 21991.
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"While Alvogen does not take a political stance on executions, Alvogen endorses the use of its products in accordance with FDA-approved indications, and does not condone the use of any of its drug products, including midazolam, for use in state sponsored executions," Alvogen added.
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After going more than three years without killing any death row inmates, Ohio is set to resume executions after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the state can continue using midazolam, the controversial lethal injection drug present in several recent botched U.S. executions.
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Jubeir was less defensive about the executions themselves: "We should be applauded for this, not criticized."
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A U.S. appeals court in June lifted a preliminary injunction, clearing the way to resume executions.
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For physicians, the cluster of so-called "botched" executions presents a particular sort of ethical dilemma.
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What's salient here is how those men are supposed to die—the execution of their executions.
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The new ceasefire has reportedly been broken already, as reports of executions continue to manifest. 2.
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He pointed to what he said were "botched executions" in several states that also involved Midazolam.
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But midazolam has become increasingly controversial, due to its involvement in several high-profile botched executions.
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Last October, Ohio said it would resume executions in 2017 under a new lethal injection protocol.
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It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan.
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But the police deny allegations by human rights advocates that many of the killings were executions.
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The immediate consequence of the executions was a burst of hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Then, on Saturday after announcing the executions, the Saudis ended a shaky cease-fire in Yemen.
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The Syrian president has been accused of deliberately targeting civilians, executions, torture and crimes against humanity.
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In 2015, there were 28 executions and 49 new death sentences, the lowest numbers in decades.
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Critics dispute that and say executions are taking place, with zero accountability, allegations the police reject.
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According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, there were 37 federal executions from 1927 to 2003.
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Le Pen has been under investigation for tweeting three images showing ISIS executions in December 2015.
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Victims at sea have been beaten, tortured, given little to eat, and subjected to mock executions.
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There are monsters of all sizes, executions galore, and dazzling visual effects accompanying your every move.
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"In these circumstances, the execution of these six individuals would constitute arbitrary executions," the experts said.
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A Philippine police commander told Reuters in February that buy-busts are actually well-planned executions.
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The Saudi executions did not figure in a Security Council statement that was issued Monday evening.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani described the executions as an "unjust aggression".
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Certain kinds of drug-trafficking can incur the death penalty (though Thailand rarely carries out executions).
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No federal executions took place, however, until 2001, according to to the Bureau of Prisons website.
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Graczyk retires Tuesday after a 22015-year career in which he observed more than 400 executions.
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Reports of botched executions have also emerged from Texas, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois and Arizona.
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The executions are scheduled to begin in December 26, though legal challenges could potentially delay them.
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Arkansas executions The state's plan to kill eight inmates in 10 days is off for now.
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By the time of Nish's visit, Leigh's digital soul has been run ragged by multiple executions.
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The Fulani community along the Mali-Niger border has also accused Tuareg militia of committing executions.
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Midazolam is used to render condemned inmates unconscious before two other drugs are administered in executions.
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Broadcaster ABS-CNN put the number at over 800, though this includes executions by anonymous vigilantes.
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But executions still are on hold until litigation in federal court is completed, the DPIC says.
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Church opposition to government executions has developed considerably in recent years, which to Scalia was anathema.
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The Supreme Court rejected the first of eight executions to take place in Arkansas early Tuesday.
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Only five of the 32 states that have the death penalty carried out executions last year.
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U.S. executions are becoming less common, with opinion polls showing rising opposition to the death penalty.
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In some cases, their teeth were knocked out; others were burned or subjected to mock executions.
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In 31 states, executions are considered neither "cruel" nor "unusual," surviving in varying degrees of practice.
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Akorn, the only approved company making that drug, has tried to prevent its use in executions.
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A report from Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group, says some of these killings resemble executions.
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In 2015, a total of six states—Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia—hosted executions.
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Meanwhile, the Iranian people are in a worse position, having endured nearly 3,000 executions under Rouhani.
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In 1986, the justices banned executions of prisoners "who have lost their sanity" in Ford v.
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As a clerk in 1996 for Chief Justice Rehnquist, he specialized in promoting executions as policy.
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He has also reshuffled the elites in his government with a series of purges and executions.
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Despite the large overall decline since the 1990s, attitudes toward executions differ drastically by political affiliation.
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But in Bashir's Sudan, executions are often a "deterrence" enacted without recourse to judge or jury.
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The executions took place in 12 cities, four prisons using firing squads and the others beheading.
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Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom's top religious authority, praised the executions as "just".
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A major hurdle for American executions at any level is the availability of lethal-injection drugs.
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The department says the Bureau of Prisons has completed the review and the executions can continue.
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There are myriad causes for the death penalty's decline since the late 1990s, when executions peaked.
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Five executions have been scheduled for December 2019 and early 2020, according to the Justice Department.
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Shortages for some of the drugs in that cocktail have helped make federal executions exceedingly rare.
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But this surge in public executions has not swept across all corners of the country equally.
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While both carry out horrific public executions, only one turns them into gruesome propaganda videos online.
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"Those who didn't leave paid the consequences: disappeared relatives, kidnappings, torture, and executions," recalls The Administrator.
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The report said the government routinely tortured detainees with beatings, asphyxiations, mock executions and electric shocks.
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Critics dispute that and say executions are taking place with zero accountability, allegations the police reject.
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The Arkansas executions were expedited because there's an expiration date on the state's supply of midazolam.
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Mock executions like this were routine, as were beatings which seemed like they would never end.
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The potential use of commonly abused narcotics like fentanyl in executions has alarmed human-rights organizations.
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For advice, I called Eric Dezenhall, a crisis management consultant who has witnessed many corporate executions.
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Moghaddam said that last year the number of executions for such crimes increased considerably, surpassing 600.
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"Iranian authorities have admitted several times that the executions do not reduce drug crimes," said Moghaddam.
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The carnival atmosphere and "hanging parties" led Kentucky to ban public executions, although public lynchings continued.
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He was eliminating his rivals, sometimes ordering public executions with antiaircraft guns that shredded their bodies.
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Survivors who fled to neighboring Bangladesh gave consistent accounts of executions, gang rapes and burned homes.
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The fighters have carried out public executions, lashings and violent punishments for infringements of their rule.
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Researchers at the University of Colorado asked criminologists if they believed executions lowered the homicide rate.
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Hue residents, meanwhile, were incensed by Communist kidnappings and executions — but also by indiscriminate American firepower.
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Amnesty International puts the number of disappeared at 103,700 and says that extrajudicial executions are common.
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Reporting on executions is inherently challenging, given the intensely emotional atmosphere and the extreme public scrutiny.
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In China, summary executions and the arbitrary killing of opponents were the order of the day.
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She said she was never scared of the man who witnesses said ordered executions and interrogations.
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The number of executions in the United States remains close to nearly a three-decade low.
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George E. Pataki — making tough-on-crime speeches promising longer sentences, more executions and less parole.
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This goes on and on, the executions various and relentless, until the 39-minute film ends.
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Any violation of this code by men or women was punishable with public flogging and executions.
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Six of the eight inmates applied for clemency after Mr. Hutchinson announced the executions in February.
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Instead, the judge focused on what critics have depicted as the perils of executions involving midazolam.
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The move comes after the Trump administration announced that it would restart federal executions in July.
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It found that internal rivalries among opposition forces had led to increasing numbers of summary executions.
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EXECUTIONS IN America peaked in 22020, when 217 prisoners were put to death in 20 states.
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Often in cages and chained by the neck, they survived torture, starvation and repeated mock executions.
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Texas carried out eight of all the 20 executions in America between January and November 2019.
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Even cooperative states with secret protocols, which are common, he wrote, could make federal executions impossible.
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If the government prevails on appeal, that will allow the executions to move forward soon afterwards.
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Arkansas' plans for the rapid-fire executions of eight inmates next month have hit an snag.
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It would be the fastest spate of executions in any state in more than 40 years.
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Characters watch executions for entertainment; scientists build murderous creatures in the lab just because they can.
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It was used for gladiator and hunting shows, as well as public executions, for four centuries.
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As for the expense, the reason executions cost more than imprisonment is that they're worth it.
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The herders and farmers who were moved for the project endured starvation, executions and brutal expulsions.
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In 2016, five states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, and Texas — accounted for all 20 executions nationally.
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" Related: With Executions on the Rise, Saudi Arabia is Now Hiring Even More Executioners In a statement on January 3 UK Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood said the country is "firmly opposed to the death penalty" and had "expressed [its] disappointment at the mass executions.
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Arizona invites death row inmates to bring their own lethal injection drugs to executions Arizona invites death row inmates to bring their own lethal injection drugs to executions Arizona correction officials think they've found a solution to the nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs: Bring your own.
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"States have to decide: Are they going to try to break the law in order to carry out executions, are they going to rely on questionable compounding sources or are they going to change their method of executions or abandon the death penalty altogether?" he said.
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The arguments over drugs Williams and the other seven death row inmates initially fought their executions on the grounds that the sedative Arkansas is using -- midazolam, the drug used to render inmates unconscious in botched executions in other states -- does not reliably prevent a painful death.
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To get the measure through the Republican-led House, Utah legislators might point to another reason to abolish capital punishment, one counterintuitively illustrated in the recent executions of a Texas serial killer and an Oklahoma gangbanger: State executions of the guilty sometimes impede exoneration of the innocent.
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These alarming revelations go against the worldwide trend of abandoning this cruel and ineffective punishment: excluding China, the number of executions worldwide in 2016 was down 37% from the previous year with 1,032 executions, according to Amnesty International's latest annual report on the death penalty worldwide.
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The Islamic Republic executed nearly 2100,000 prisoners last year, marking a high in the number of executions in the country in more than 20 years, and making it the country with the highest number of executions per capita in the world, according to a new UN report.
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The Islamic Republic executed nearly 1,703 prisoners last year, marking a high in the number of executions in the country in more than 20 years, and making it the country with the highest number of executions per capita in the world, according to a new UN report.
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Berlin is not planning to impose sanctions on Riyadh after the executions, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
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Will movies and concerts enjoyed with dozens, hundreds of other people go the way of public executions?
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The report also classified two of this year's murders as "extrajudicial executions" carried out by state employees.
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As early as 113, the American Medical Association released a report condemning doctors who participated in executions.
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The number of executions also has declined significantly, going from 98 in 1999 to 28 last year.
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Asakawa, who cares after his bedridden sister, said on NHK that the executions have not brought solace.
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Two major Japanese newspapers issued extra editions about the executions and handed them out at train stations.
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Human rights groups say many of the deaths were executions by police, an assertion the authorities reject.
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The same group said 2019 had seen a total of eight executions nationwide as of May 24.
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And since the appellate process can take decades, that helps explain the dearth of recent federal executions.
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In some executions, controversial drugs as midazolam or propofol have used instead, which has raised much concern.
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Disturbing reports are coming out that, as neighborhoods fall, executions are being carried about by government forces.
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Most executions in Iran are carried out for drug smuggling, which remains a problem for the country.
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Texas is one of the worst offenders when it comes to executions, killing 560 people since 1982.
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Political activists have accused the Rangers of heavy-handed tactics, including summary executions and targeting political parties.
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If executions have not ended drug production, neither has the repression of drug users ended drug use.
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Press releases and articles regularly tout the numbers of detentions, convictions, and even executions of ISIS suspects.
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The executions were likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Activists believe the death toll is far higher and accuse police or systematic cover-ups and executions.
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Almost as ridiculous as microsecond trade executions is the speed-bump mechanism used to slow things down.
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There are reports, too, of the executions of boys and men who refuse to fight with ISIS.
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Amnesty said Saudi Arabia had exceeded its highest level of executions since 1995, when 192 were recorded.
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But a minority have credited the Saudi government with having played a deft hand with the executions.
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The Saudi public's support for the glut of executions is not just a matter of sectarian affiliation.
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And only three states — Texas, Georgia and Missouri — were responsible for almost all of last year's executions.
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There have been two natural deaths during the entirety of Game of Thrones, and countless creative executions.
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In fact, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia accounted for almost 90% of all global executions (excluding China).
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The United States only had 28 executions last year, the lowest number in more than two decades.
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Among those, Florida and Oklahoma currently have a moratorium on executions in place due to legal battles.
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The next step is a set of code executions that allows for full control of the device.
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In Mr Duterte's war, more than 7,000 Filipinos have died in summary executions by police and hitmen.
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Even before the executions were revealed, Saudi Arabia was facing renewed criticism over its human rights record.
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During its 10 months of occupation, ISIS used the amphitheatre as a site to hold public executions.
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Rohingya Muslims have accused the army of summary executions, rapes and setting fire to homes of civilians.
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"The Trump administration's decision to restart federal executions after a 16-year hiatus is outrageous," she said.
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It is a system flawed beyond repair, and the federal government should not proceed with any executions.
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It seemed like the government was backing these states with its informal moratorium on executions — until now.
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It might not even matter that the US government won't be able to proceed with the executions.
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"Extrajudicial executions and excessive use of force by security agents persist," Heyns said in a U.N. report.
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Such "implicit impunity" spurs police over-zealousness, observes Agnès Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions.
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Although the death penalty has long been on the books, there have been no executions since 1957.
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But courts issued injunctions staying four of those executions for various reasons relating to the individual cases.
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"All of the states that have been carrying out executions have some form of secrecy..." Dunham said.
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The executions would mark the first time since 2005 that Arkansas has put an inmate to death.
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The executions have been ordered to begin later this year, but could be delayed by legal challenges.
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A Pulaski County Circuit Court judge issued the order on Wednesday, putting all eight executions on hold.
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Last week, two U.N. human rights experts urged Manila to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings.
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Both have track records of executions, killings, exportation of terrorism and plundering of the Iranian people's wealth.
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The new leadership argues that stability requires it to send a signal to terrorists (hence the executions).
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Texas is currently suing the Food and Drug Administration over impounded drugs it needs for future executions.
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At least 47 executions were carried out in public, says the UN council, often with children present.
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The hasty executions of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi passed for transitional justice in Iraq and Libya.
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Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of carrying out extrajudicial executions, a charge that Israel has strenuously denied.
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The state has postponed all executions until 2017 because it has had difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs.
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He would solicit their opinions; they would call for executions, as they knew they were expected to.
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Activists accuse police of executions and cover-ups on a massive scale being ignored by the government.
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Because North Korea rarely publicizes the executions of top officials, most such reports cannot be independently confirmed.
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Women are most likely to be arrested for it, but executions are almost nonexistent for adultery cases.
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The executions' rapid pace "creates an extraordinary risk that something is going to go wrong," Dunham said.
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Activists, however, say the circumstances behind many of the killings in police sting operations point to executions.
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Last year, there were 28 executions around the country; Texas alone accounted for nearly half of them.
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In 22019, 30 convicted criminals were sentenced to death in 2016, while 20 executions were carried out.
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In states that rarely perform executions, the sentence is effectively life imprisonment with a chance of death.
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Rumors continue to swirl about summary executions, and mass rapes and, outside of Aleppo, chemical weapons strikes.
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Some detainees there claimed they endured physical and sexual abuse, infliction of electric shocks, and mock executions.
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Carson also was questioned about recent mass executions in Saudi Arabia that included a prominent Shiite cleric.
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This month, two U.N. human rights experts urged Manila to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings.
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Thirty states currently authorize the death penalty, but only a handful of states regularly carry out executions.
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During incarceration by rebel groups, beatings, mock executions and forced menial labor, like digging trenches, are common.
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O), the biggest discount brokerage by trade executions, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. (bloom.
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Human Rights Watch has also documented murders by torture, public executions and beating deaths by Congolese peacekeepers.
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Sociological rituals and class behavior provide the background for devastating summations—executions, really—of motive and psychology.
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Today, the regime boasts the highest rate of executions per capita in the world, surpassing even China.
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After the outcry, authorities said they were postponing executions while the government focused on reviving he economy.
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Lopez testified that Guzman ordered multiple executions of cartel associates, some of which were not carried out.
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At the same time, there's very little proof to support the common claim that executions deter crime.
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But even if executions go on indefinitely, there's a strong argument to be made for televising them.
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They also rule on motions to intervene in lower court proceedings, most consequentially related to scheduled executions.
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Executions at the state and federal levels have been on the wane over the last several years.
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And Mr. Kaine presided over 11 executions as governor, delaying some but granting clemency only once. Mrs.
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Issue No. 1 was the death penalty; Virginia was second only to Texas in executions since 1976.
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Georgia, in 1972, the court effectively placed a moratorium on executions nationwide that would last four years.
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Texas remains the death penalty capital of the US even as executions nationwide hover at historic lows.
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There is repression, political prisoners, torture, and even executions, but there is no security for the citizens.
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The United States had 23 executions so far in 2017, with no more scheduled for the year.
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There were 23 executions in 2017, compared to 98 in 1999, and 14 so far this year.
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And though 31 states still allow the death penalty, only 10 have carried out executions since 2014.
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Texas leads the United States in executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
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Since Mr. Sisi has been in power, the numbers of death sentences and executions have risen markedly.
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The war is sold by a nationalistic, Fox News-like network (that also broadcasts criminal executions live).
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And even as the war winds down, arrests, torture and executions at the secret prisons are accelerating.
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Of the 109 dead, 95 were shot in the head, neck and thorax, which suggested extrajudicial executions.
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Indonesian officials say they have repeatedly asked Saudi officials to notify them before executions are carried out.
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This 20-year high in executions came during the first year Saudi Arabia's new King Salman's reign.
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Survivors describe sadistic treatment, rape, summary executions or detainees left to die of untreated wounds and illnesses.
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The decisions do not affect five other executions that are scheduled this month at the Cummins Unit.
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Of course, the state's attempts to shield certain information regarding executions were not the only complicating factors.
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She plays Bernadine Williams, the warden of a prison where executions are carried out via lethal injection.
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In a news conference, Renato Sales, Mexico's national security commissioner, did not accept police carried out executions.
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Residents and rights advocates have accused security forces of summary executions, rape and setting fire to homes.
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Although capital punishment is legal in Morocco, the country has had a freeze on executions since 1993.
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Consider data on effective spread, which measures an exchange's ability to provide trade executions at attractive prices.
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One of them was Yakov Sverdlov, who ordered the executions of Czar Nicholas II and his family.
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We had a man, Allen Ault, who has overseen many executions because he had been a warden.
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Arkansas used the drug to carry out four executions in April, just before its midazolam supply expired.
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The executions could herald a possible return to the harsher methods of Boko Haram, according to experts.
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Protracted litigation over the drugs used in lethal injection executions prevented the government from continuing the practice.
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George Ryan declared a statewide moratorium on executions, but nationally, the harms of jailhouse informants went unaddressed.
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That is why I have called on the Trump administration to stop the executions planned for Dec.
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Many of us who oppose the resumption of federal executions support the death penalty and many don't.
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The latest delayed executions were to have taken place in November 2019 and January and March 2020.
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The human rights group Amnesty International said the "horrific scale and secrecy" surrounding Saturday's executions was shocking.
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The public wants diversity, not intolerance; more marriages and fewer executions; less money in politics, not more.
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She added that there is scientific and anecdotal evidence to question the use of midazolam in executions.
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Later that day, the Justice Department asked the Court to allow these four executions to move forward.
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As a result, prison officials struggled to obtain the drugs they'd historically used to carry out executions.
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The rest of the world has adapted to modern times; they're insisting on public executions and decapitations.
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Where the series falls short, ultimately, is in the execution -- or more accurately in "Purge" world, executions.
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Human rights groups say Duterte's anti-drugs crackdown had led to systematic executions and police cover-ups.
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"He is not merely a random clergyman pulled in off the street for executions," the office wrote.
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The government has stopped providing information on executions, and human rights investigators suspect that many go unrecorded.
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But Hamas has blamed Israel, and the executions were viewed as a warning against cooperating with Israelis.
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Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, questioned whether the attack met this threshold.
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And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders.
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Trump gave Kim the benefit of the doubt last week over allegations of executions in North Korea.
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The California governor's moratorium on executions in the state should signal the demise of a barbaric practice.
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In dissent, Justice Breyer said that three states have authorized the use of nitrogen gas in executions.
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Faiz, the former Amnesty International researcher, fears these groups will get a boost from the executions too.
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The Minister of the Interior released a statement following the executions on Saturday and quoted the Koran.
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Abolitionists' practical arguments include the exorbitant cost of executions, thanks to the lengthy appeals and retrials they occasion; the difficulty of buying poison for use in executions, from ever more reluctant pharmaceutical companies; and the problems caused when states choose new drug cocktails that may cause prisoners to suffer.
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In the week before the scheduled executions, lawyers for Mr. Davis and Mr. Ward filed a motion with the Arkansas Supreme Court in which they argued that the executions should be stayed because their clients had been denied the chance to be diagnosed by independent mental health experts.
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The group, the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that opposes capital punishment, found that states carried out fewer than 30 executions and imposed fewer than 50 new death sentences for the fifth year in a row, continuing sharp declines since 1999, when there were nearly 100 executions.
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That would leave only four countries in South-East Asia still conducting executions: Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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In June, two further videos appeared to show summary executions carried out by LNA fighters on his orders.
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Arkansas scheduled the executions before its supply of midazolam , a sedative used in the lethal injection process, expired.
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And that's just official state executions: The IDPC estimates there have been 27,000 extrajudicial killings in drug crackdowns.
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The executions took place under royal court order in the capital, Riyadh, and 1573 other cities and towns.
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The rights group recorded the executions of 97 people under the age of 18 between 1990 and 2018.
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"No, No to Executions," one poster carried by demonstrators in Duraz read, above pictures of the three men.
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They're fleeing a brutal campaign of executions, sexual violence and village-burning allegedly being waged by government forces.
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While 31 states still have a death penalty, sentences and executions have been trending downward for a generation.
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Ohio, for example, resumed executions in 2017 after a three-year break caused by a shortage of drugs.
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There are several botched executions that serve as benchmarks in America's long and uncomfortable history with lethal injections.
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American warnings about the North's gross human rights abuses, political executions and concentration camps didn't get a mention.
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Residents and human rights advocates have accused security forces of summary executions, rapes and setting fire to homes.
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The valium-like drug has been used in executions in other states, a few of which were botched.
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Amnesty International, a pressure group, documented 753,032 executions in 2016, but believes the true number is much higher.
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IS released only nine videos in October, Lesaca said, seven of which comprised scenes of battles or executions.
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There had been a three-year pause in executions because prison officials faced difficulties obtaining the needed drugs.
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At COBALT (and elsewhere) there were frequent mock executions of detainees who were thought to be withholding intelligence.
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Police often moved weapons and other objects at the crime scene to cover up executions, the source said.
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The new federal execution protocol involves a single drug, sodium pentobarbital, which is commonly used in state executions.
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The advocacy group, which opposes the death penalty, called for an immediate moratorium on executions in the state.
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Several U.S. states have used midazolam in executions in which witnesses said inmates appeared to twist in pain.
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Examples of the drug's inability to render executions painless are increasing, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a dissent.
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A judge ended up declare Ohio's lethal injection procedure unconstitutional, leading the state to halt executions for years.
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And even some of those companies with formal Alexa integrations have delivered cumbersome executions without full Alexa capabilities.
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Mugabe said Wednesday that although his cabinet is divided on the issue, he favors a resumption of executions.
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It remains hard to predict whether the executions will take place; there has been no official verdict yet.
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Usually, though, he's brought up the same descriptions of executions while rousing audiences with talk of war crimes.
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The JKCCS had been working on human rights issues including mass graves, torture and extrajudicial executions, Patel said.
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The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), in power from 2008 to 2013, introduced a moratorium on executions in 2008.
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The United Nations has verified 564 executions in the central African nation since April 2015, the experts said.
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Mass executions in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has one of the highest death penalty rates in the world.
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That number places Virginia second among states on the U.S. executions list behind Texas, which has had 542.
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Its all-out war on illegal drugs has already seen a large number of executions in recent years.
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The backlash has forced some states to halt executions entirely, while others have turned to untested drug protocols.
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Amnesty's count includes only known executions, so should be treated as the lowest possible estimate of judicial killings.
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The U.N. Security Council condemned the attacks on Saudi diplomatic facilities in Iran without mentioning the Saudi executions.
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Some of the corrections officers have witnessed or overseen multiple executions and some have served as executioners themselves.
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Since then, the United States has carried out 1,444 executions, and only 171 have relied on another method.
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There are public executions as well, and that's how the government tries to instill fear in its citizens.
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In June 1753, the Supreme Court upheld the use of midazolam in executions in a 5-4 ruling.
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Regarding the states with the controversial 2014 executions: • Arizona: The state agreed in December not to use midazolam.
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The judges rejected assertions by the widows that Shell should have done more to prevent their husbands' executions.
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Members of the cartel behead rivals and post videos of their executions online as a warning to others.
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They were terrorists, the Saudis said, and the executions were carried out in the interest of national security.
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The Justice Department said all five executions will take place at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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So far, three of the Arkansas inmates have been executed, and four executions have been put on hold.
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The authorities point out that most of the executions were for drug-related crimes, including armed drug-smuggling.
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Pharmaceutical companies, wary of bad publicity, have begun prohibiting the sale of their drugs for use in executions.
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There are already horrifying reports of mass arrests and mass executions with the worst likely yet to come.
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Iran rejects Western criticism of its rights record, including a high number of executions linked to drugs smuggling.
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Defectors from the North have previously testified to having witnessed public executions and rights abuses at detention facilities.
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Of the 155 death sentences the state has handed down and resolved since 1976, 28 resulted in executions.
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What I discovered was that one person had been fully exonerated for every 10 executions in this country.
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More states are stepping back from capital punishment by simply not performing executions or by abolishing it altogether.
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According to Amnesty International, Iran accounted for 28503 percent of all recorded executions around the world in 22019.
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TV. Barr's announcement comes as the number of executions in the U.S. has declined over the last decade.
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Last year's total number of executions — 28 — is less than half the annual total of a decade earlier.
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Mr. Thompson's essay compels us to consider the collateral harm suffered by those who must carry out executions.
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His regime is remembered for its summary executions, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, censorship, electoral fraud and epic corruption.
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In March, California Governor Gavin Newsom imposed a statewide moratorium on executions for the nation's largest death row.
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In Raqqa's main square, ISIS carried out public executions and placed the heads of the dead on spikes.
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"By agreeing to the installation of such monuments, we tacitly approve of repression, torture and executions," he wrote.
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The questions Arizona is confronting are questions every state that intends to carry out executions should now ask.
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The commission documented the use of torture, deliberate starvation, forced labour, disappearances of political prisoners, rape and executions.
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Human rights groups say many of those are executions, and the victims are users and small-time peddlers.
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The mercurial dictator has renounced state-sponsored terrorism, and cut back on the torture and executions of dissidents.
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It said it had documented six extrajudicial executions by the FAES of young men linked to the protests.
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This reticence should lead us to rethink the death penalty itself and stop carrying out executions at all.
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A federal judge had stopped all the executions, but an appeals court over the weekend overturned that ruling.
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" And it even proposed "public executions of looters and other spectacular events to distract the protest-minded audience.
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But this time, the executions have been overshadowed by the hanging of six Taliban prisoners on May 8.
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Cruel and unusual punishment: Ohio is preparing to resume enforcing the death penalty after halting executions in 2014.
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He wants more executions Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, opposed capital punishment, and President Obama had misgivings.
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Under state law, six to 12 citizen witnesses are required to ensure that executions are carried out lawfully.
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Arkansas' eight upcoming executions have drawn attention partly because the state hasn't put anyone to death since 2005.
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Pierre and Andrews were sentenced to death, and their executions were carried out in 1987 and 1992, respectively.
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Refugees have described fleeing nightmarish scenes of executions, rape and village burnings conducted by members of Myanmar's military.
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Amnesty attributes the overall spike, in part, to Pakistan lifting its moratorium on civilian executions in December 21982.
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He told the ABC that he had witnessed several beheadings and executions during his time with the group.
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Nor is there a peep about the Great Terror, Stalin's campaign of purges and executions in the 1930s.
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Four years later, after states began remaking their death penalty systems, the court ruled that executions could resume.
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Executions resumed in 1977, and by the late 1990s, more than 50 were being carried out every year.
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Just over a year ago, the Islamic State began carrying out mass executions of Sufi worshipers during prayer.
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Two executions of inmates with compromised veins have been botched recently, one in Ohio and another in Alabama.
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And even as the war winds down, arrests, torture and executions at the secret torture prisons are accelerating.
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The last full-scale coup in 1980 led to mass arrests of politicians and others, torture and executions.
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The majority of the world's executions take place in five countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan.
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They depict executions, torture and starvation at the hands of the Communist Khmer Rouge who formerly ruled Cambodia.
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The Supreme Court, which upheld the constitutionality of midazolam for use in executions last year, declined to intervene.
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In 2016, California passed a proposition forcing the state to resume executions, although there are legal challenges outstanding.
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"The Department of Correction's attention now shifts to the executions that are scheduled for Thursday," Mr. Graves said.
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He said he will pursue working to gain the ability to use a gas, nitrogen hypoxia, for executions.
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" Characters in García Márquez's novel, she points out, "die alone, en masse, in wars, massacres, executions, drownings, suicides.
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"It's a fact that if we fall into the regime's hands, there will be mass executions," he said.
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Justice Breyer has long been troubled by what he said were excessive delays between death sentences and executions.
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A United Nations report last year described the widespread executions, enslavement and rapes of the Yazidis as genocide.
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He announced in July that the federal government would resume executions after a 16-year de facto moratorium.
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Summary executions, retaliatory abductions, and torture must end immediately so that psychologists and counselors can do their jobs.
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The executions were scheduled from December 9 to January 15 at the US Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana.
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"The estimates are about 2628 percent of all the executions by lethal injections are botched," Dunham told Hill.
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On today's episode: We discuss an extraordinary plan to rush a series of executions on Arkansas' death row.
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A local analyst, Labib Kamhawi, said he believed that the executions were meant to send a triple message.
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But civil rights groups said the killings appeared to be extrajudicial executions and called for an urgent investigation.
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The U.N. report said the figures were "shockingly high" and many of them appeared to be extrajudicial executions.
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If the Supreme Court goes through with the request, the executions could begin as early as next week.
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