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Joe Biden "was a key figure in passing the 1994 Crime Bill, which disproportionately harmed Black communities through harsh sentencing laws and increased incarceration rates," Donald Trump's campaign reminded voters last week. If elected, Trump promised in a speech at the Libertarian National Convention two days later, he will free Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence for running Silk Road, an online marketplace used by illegal drug vendors. Trump's criticism of disproportionate drug penalties contradicts his own platform, which threatens defendants like Ulbricht with death. The forme...
Reason
Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022. “An order for the execution of Toomaj Salehi has been issued,” Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian stated. The rapper has been detained, held in solitary confinement and was allegedly tortured following his arrest. In an unprecedented move, a court in Isfahan reversed the higher Supreme Court’s decision on Saleh’s case last week, upholding the original verdict of “corruption on earth” and issued the maximum punishment of death, according to Iranian pro-reform outlets ...
Euronews (English)
By Ritika Jain The year 2022 saw the highest population of inmates on death row in India - a total of 539 prisoners, since 2000 when it was 563, according to a report by an advocacy group that monitors capital punishment. Trial courts last year imposed 165 death sentences, which is the highest in a single year since 2000, the report further revealed. But this increase is sharply influenced by the Ahmedabad blast case where 38 persons were sentenced to death, the report added. The year 2022 also represented a “historic shift” in death penalty jurisprudence where it not only saw the highest numb...
BOOM Live
By Ritika Jain The year 2022 was significant for the Supreme Court of India. With three different chief justices, the SC passed noteworthy orders including issuing guidelines for bail to long-term undertrials, interpretation of the Hindu Succession Act that held a daughter's right to inherit a share of her father's self-acquired property, expanding the scope of a 'vulnerable witness', and reminding the Centre to direct states from charging people with Section 66A of the Information and Technology Act, 2000 which has been struck down. The top court also became the battleground for political bat...
BOOM Live
By Archis Chowdhury As protests in Iran continue, social media saw viral posts claiming that the Iranian authorities have sentenced 15,000 protesters to death, as a form of extreme clamp-down. Several prominent handles, including the official Twitter handle of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared this on social media. BOOM found this claim to be false and baseless; while hundreds have lost their lives in clashes between authorities and protesters, according to reports the number 15,000 corresponds to those who have been detained, while only five people been given the death penalty so ...
BOOM Live
The spate of hangings has prompted growing calls for Singapore to abolish the death penalty.
SINGAPORE \- Singapore hanged a drug trafficker on Friday, July 22, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency. The spate of hangings – which included the widely criticized execution of a mentally disabled man in April – has prompted growing calls for Singapore to abolish the death penalty. But the city-state, which has some of the world’s toughest anti-drugs laws, insists it remains an effective deterrent against trafficking. On Friday, Singaporean man Nazeri Lajim was executed in prison, the prisons service sai...
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has imposed a moratorium on federal executions due to a Justice Department review of the death penalty In the statement, Garland said: “The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely. That obligation has special force in capital cases.” Former Attorney General William Barr green-lit the use of capital punishment last year after a 17-year hiatus, resulting in 13 executions during th...
uPolitics.com
Executions Halted, But Study to Ignore Simple Solution; Using Pills Eliminates Concerns and Constitutional Challenges Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more AG Merrick Garland Issues A Moratorium On Federal ExecutionsWASHINGTON, D.C. (July 2, 2021) - Attorney General Merrick Garland just issued a moratorium on federal executions, ordering a review of whether the current method involving an injection of pentobarbital poses risks of pain and suffering, and whether other methods of execution, including electrocution and the firing squad, should continue to be used. But this study, like ...
ValueWalk
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has signed legislation outlawing capital punishment and the death penalty making it the first southern state to do so. Virginia’s state House voted 57-41 in favor of the bill and the Senate then voted 22-16 in February. Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people since 1608. “If we can do it, surely other states can make this happen,” said the Rev. LaKeisha Cook, who works as a criminal justice reform organizer of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. “Because truth be told, people probably never even expected Virginia to be able to abolish the deat...
uPolitics.com
Virginia’s state legislature approved a bill Monday that will abolish the death penalty in the state if approved by the governor, which would make it the first state in the American South to abolish the death penalty. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has indicated that he will sign the legislation, calling the death penalty “inequitable, ineffective and inhumane” in a statement soon after the bill’s passing in Congress. “Over Virginia’s long history, this commonwealth has executed more people than any other state. And, like many other states, Virginia has come too close to executing an innocent...
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