Re: [Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide
Unfortunate that I have a countryman from the Philippines who is bound to be executed. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Rick Halperin rhalp...@smu.edu wrote: Jan. 29 INDONESIA: Indonesia ready to execute foreigners after rejecting clemency Indonesia is ready to execute 7 foreign drug convicts on death row after their appeals for presidential clemency were rejected, an official said, in a move certain to set Jakarta on a collision course with international allies. The seven include 2 Australian leaders of the Bali 9 drug-smuggling gang, who have been on death row for almost a decade. The pair lost their appeals in December and earlier this month. A spokesman for the attorney-general's office revealed late Wednesday that a further five foreigners have also lost their appeals. He said four were from France, Brazil, Nigeria and Ghana. Local media reported that the 5th was a Philippine woman, and the foreign ministry in Manila said it was working to prevent the execution. 4 Indonesians -- only 1 of them convicted of drugs offences -- had also lost their bid for clemency. The attorney general's office now has 11 convicts on death row ready to be executed, spokesman Tony Spontana said. Indonesia earlier this month executed 6 drug offenders, including 5 foreigners, prompting a furious Brazil and the Netherlands -- whose citizens were among those put to death -- to recall their ambassadors. Drug offenders from Vietnam, Malawi and Nigeria were also among those killed by firing squad. Despite his image as a reformist, Indonesia's new President Joko Widodo has been a vocal supporter of capital punishment for drug offenders, disappointing rights activists who had hoped that he would take a softer line on the death penalty. - No compromise - He has repeatedly vowed to show no clemency to drug traffickers. In a CNN interview broadcast earlier this week, Widodo vowed: We are not going to compromise for drug dealers. No compromise. No compromise. Spontana said a decision had not yet been made on when or where the convicts would be executed, only that more than one would face the firing squad in the next round. The Frenchman is Serge Atlaoui, who has been on death row since 2007, Spontana confirmed. In Sydney late Thursday, more than 2,000 Australians, led by local musicians, gathered in a plea for mercy for their compatriots facing imminent execution, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Holding candles and signs reading I stand for mercy, the crowd listened to speeches and live music. Don't kill him, please don't kill him ... please, president, please forgive him, Sukumaran's grandmother Edith Visvanathan told the crowd between sobs. The Australian pair were arrested in Bali in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year for attempting to smuggle 8 kilograms (18 pounds) of heroin out of the Indonesian holiday island. The rejection of their clemency appeals removed the final hurdle to put the pair to death, as Indonesian authorities said they must be executed together as they had committed their crime together. Lawyers for the pair are planning a last-ditch appeal to their convictions but the attorney-general's office has said that further legal challenges are not possible once a clemency bid has been rejected. The Frenchman Atlaoui was arrested in 2005 in a secret laboratory producing ecstasy close to Jakarta. (source: Daily Mail) ___ DeathPenalty mailing list DeathPenalty@lists.washlaw.edu http://lists.washlaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/deathpenalty Search the Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/ ~~~ A free service of WashLaw http://washlaw.edu (785)670.1088 ~~~ -- Freelance Grails http://grails.asia/grails-tutorial-for-beginners-hql-queries and Java http://javadevnotes.com/ developer ___ DeathPenalty mailing list DeathPenalty@lists.washlaw.edu http://lists.washlaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/deathpenalty Search the Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/ ~~~ A free service of WashLaw http://washlaw.edu (785)670.1088 ~~~
Re: [Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide
Happy holidays! On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Rick Halperin rhalp...@smu.edu wrote: my postings to this list will resume on Dec. 31 Happy Holidays!! ** Dec. 17 PAKISTAN: Pakistan Reinstates Death Penalty After Attack The PM describes the school massacre as a national tragedy unleashed by savages, as he lifts the ban on the death penalty. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reinstated the death penalty in terrorism cases after Taliban gunmen killed 132 children and 9 teachers at a school in Peshawar. 3 days of mourning have begun after the country's deadliest terror attack which saw 7 gunmen storm the army-run school on Tuesday. Government spokesman Mohiuddin Wan said Mr Sharif had approved the lifting of the ban on death penalties. He said: It was decided that this moratorium should be lifted. The prime minister approved. Black warrants [execution orders] will be issued within a day or 2. The moratorium on civilian executions had been in place since 2008. 1 execution has taken place since then. Despite the ban, hanging has remained a possible sentence in Pakistan and judges continued to pass death sentences. Pakistan has more than 8,000 prisoners on death row, around 10% of whom have been convicted of offences labelled terrorism, according to legal aid group Justice Project Pakistan. Meanwhile, funerals for many of the victims of the massacre have been taking place. Mr Sharif described the attack as a national tragedy unleashed by savages. These were my children. This is my loss. This is the nation's loss, he said. Tehreek-e-Taliban insurgents moved from room to room during the 8-hour attack. Pupils were gunned down and some of the female teachers were reportedly burned alive. Teenage survivor Shahrukh Khan, who ducked below his desk with classmates when 4 gunmen burst into the room, described how he played dead after being shot in both legs. He said he stuffed his tie into his mouth to stifle his screams. I saw a pair of big black boots coming towards me, this guy was probably hunting for students hiding beneath the benches, the 15-year-old said. The man with big boots kept on looking for students and pumping bullets into their bodies. I lay as still as I could and closed my eyes, waiting to get shot again. My body was shivering. I saw death so close and I will never forget the black boots approaching me - I felt as though it was death that was approaching me. People in Peshawar have been posting memorials to friends and loved ones killed in the attack. One written to Mubeen Shah on Facebook reads: I don't know how to sleep today, I don't even know how to stop my tears. Chief military spokesman General Asim Bajwa that 125 people had been wounded in the assault. The militants said the attack was revenge for a major military offensive in the northwest, along the border with Afghanistan. But even the Taliban militants in Afghanistan condemned the attack as un-Islamic. Meanwhile, a district government official confirmed a US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan killed 11 militants, including four Pakistan Taliban, on Tuesday. (source: Sky News) Pakistan to end death penalty moratorium in terror cases: PM's office Pakistan is to end its moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases, the prime minister's office announced Dec. 17, a day after Taliban militants killed 141 people in an attack on a school. The assault on the army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the deadliest terror attack in Pakistan's history, has triggered widespread revulsion. Political and military leaders have vowed to wipe out the homegrown Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of ordinary Pakistanis in recent years. The prime minister has approved abolishment of moratorium on the execution of death penalty in terrorism-related cases, an official from Sharif's office said. Hanging remains on the Pakistani statute book and judges continue to pass the death sentence, but a de facto moratorium on civilian executions has been in place since 2008. Only 1 person has been executed since then, a soldier convicted by a court martial and hanged in November 2012. Rights campaign group Amnesty International estimates that Pakistan has more than 8,000 prisoners on death row, most of whom have exhausted the appeals process. (source: Agence France-Presse) * JUI-F criticises death penalty moratorium JUI-F General Secretary Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri has said that a moratorium on death penalty is encouraging terrorists and has limited counter-terrorism actions in the country. Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, Maulana Haidri, who is Minister of State for Postal Services, condemned the terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar and said the state had no right to suspend the death
Re: [Deathpenalty] death penalty news---worldwide
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Rick Halperin rhalp...@smu.edu wrote: Dec. 4 CHINA: China to Stop Using Organs From Executed PrisonersBut new supply may be hard to find China says that on Jan. 1, in response to human rights concerns, it will cease transplanting organs taken from executed prisoners, although uncertainties linger over where a replacement supply will come from, state media reported today. China had previously said it would phase out the practice by sometime in early 2015. But state media reports announced the 1st firm date for ending the practice, citing the architect of China's transplant system, Huang Jiefu. International human rights activists and domestic critics have long said that standard safeguards were ignored when obtaining organs from prisoners who may have been pressured to donate. However, China has one of the world's lowest levels of organ donation because of ingrained cultural attitudes and a legal requirement that family members give consent before organs are donated, even if a person had expressed a desire to donate. China executes thousands of people a year, more than the rest of the world put together???but it recently phased out the death penalty for crimes such as pimping and counterfeiting. (source: newser.com) This is a positive step forward. If it is true, it will stop the practice of expediting prisoner execution or harvesting organs from living prisoners. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China ___ DeathPenalty mailing list DeathPenalty@lists.washlaw.edu http://lists.washlaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/deathpenalty Search the Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/ ~~~ A free service of WashLaw http://washlaw.edu (785)670.1088 ~~~ -- Freelance Grails http://grails.asia/ and Java http://javadevnotes.com/ developer ___ DeathPenalty mailing list DeathPenalty@lists.washlaw.edu http://lists.washlaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/deathpenalty Search the Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/ ~~~ A free service of WashLaw http://washlaw.edu (785)670.1088 ~~~
