Tunisia sentences man to death for murder and rape of infant

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGVNGUMS5es4pfc6py8edeB3mWDkuqQ1kzU1CxIgZxoh0zYsMmLFXcO8tJmcYMdXarkYiqt4y7zLG2IptCNQ_ltdulPFlU1LT2aCBWTKRCQvw-85M0HNemFgnLWsxNK8lgS30neCgZfk/s1600/Mohamed+Amine+Yahyaoui.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGVNGUMS5es4pfc6py8edeB3mWDkuqQ1kzU1CxIgZxoh0zYsMmLFXcO8tJmcYMdXarkYiqt4y7zLG2IptCNQ_ltdulPFlU1LT2aCBWTKRCQvw-85M0HNemFgnLWsxNK8lgS30neCgZfk/s320/Mohamed+Amine+Yahyaoui.jpg" title="Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">An Army Corporal accused of murdering a four-year-old child has been sentenced to death by firearm, the lawyer of the victim's family confirmed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Permanent Military Court of Tunis, on Tuesday, pronounced the death penalty by firearm against the killer of child Yassine Aouachri," Zoubeir Yahyaoui added in a statement to Tunisian Agence Presse. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The defendant has the right to appeal against the ruling.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Capital punishment can only take place when it is validated by the President of the Republic. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last time capital punishment was used in Tunisia was in 1991.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui, 25, was charged with misappropriation of a minor, using violence that resulted in the death, rape, sequestration and maltreatment of a juvenile with premeditation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 4-year-old child, who was abducted on 17 May 2016 in front of a primary school in the Mellassine neighbourhood, was found murdered the same day in an abandoned house in Cite Hellal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yahyaoui had made 4 attempts to kidnap a child before capturing Yassine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Source: Middle East Monitor, January 3, 2017<br /><br /><br /><h2>Tunisie : Peine capitale pour l’assassin du petit Yassine</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Le soldat Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui a été condamné à la peine capitale pour le viol et le meurtre, en mai dernier, du petit Yassine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Le tribunal militaire de Tunis a condamné, mardi 3 janvier 2017, Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui (25 ans) à la peine de mort par fusillade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Incarcéré, depuis le 17 mai 2016, pour le viol et le meurtre, le même jour, de Yassine (4 ans) à Mellassine, quartier populaire l’ouest de Tunis, Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui a indiqué au juge qu’il souffrait de troubles psychiques, affirmant ne pas être responsable de ses faits et gestes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Les différentes expertises effectuées ont démontré qu’il est conscient et responsable et doit être jugé pour son crime odieux qui a ébranlé la Tunisie.</div><br />Source: Kapitalis, 3 janvier 2017<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; 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Tunisia sentences man to death for murder and rape of infant

Mohamed Amine Yahyaoui An Army Corporal accused of murdering a four-year-old child has been sentenced to death by firearm, the lawyer of the...

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Washington Governor Jay Inslee grants reprieve to child killer on death row

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUm1vRnmAgvN9ZpfVCWGfzhs0RARxd1pREQhfW9IrBh_v6XHnPqYcW-NYTIlZMw_H8Au3For8tyy8jXlPiqD1y2nVR-1jJgE2u5Q2wl8fmNPIdIigiIDPd68TCIJ75FvZXo-909PJah58/s1600/Washington+Gov+Jay+Inslee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Washington Governor Jay Inslee" border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUm1vRnmAgvN9ZpfVCWGfzhs0RARxd1pREQhfW9IrBh_v6XHnPqYcW-NYTIlZMw_H8Au3For8tyy8jXlPiqD1y2nVR-1jJgE2u5Q2wl8fmNPIdIigiIDPd68TCIJ75FvZXo-909PJah58/s400/Washington+Gov+Jay+Inslee.jpg" title="Washington Governor Jay Inslee" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washington Governor Jay Inslee</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">BELLINGHAM - Gov. Jay Inslee granted a reprieve Thursday to a Bellingham man sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Whatcom County jury sentenced Clark Richard Elmore to death in 1996, for the killing of his girlfriend’s teenage daughter. Elmore raped Kristy Lynn Ohnstad in a van, choked her until she passed out, drove a metal skewer through her skull, beat her with a sledgehammer, and dumped her body in the woods. She was 14.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over the past two decades Elmore has appealed to successively higher courts. In October the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case. An execution date was set for Jan. 19.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inslee formally granted a reprieve Thursday. Two years ago earlier he had announced a moratorium on death sentences in Washington state.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Governor Inslee has been very consistent that his moratorium on the death penalty cases in Washington isn’t about individual cases,” reads a statement released Thursday by the governor’s office. “As he stated when he announced the moratorium in 2014 the action is based on the governor’s belief that the use of capital punishment across the state is inconsistent and unequally applied — sometimes dependent on the budget of the county where the crime occurred.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prosecutor Dave McEachran met with Inslee last week to ask him to consider making an exception and allow the execution to proceed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kristy’s family spoke with Inslee, too, and “expressed a preference to see Elmore serve life in prison,” according to the governor’s office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elmore will remain at the state prison in Walla Walla, where he’s effectively serving a life sentence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gov. Jay’s Inslee office released the following statement:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Under state law, Article III, Section 9 of the Washington Constitution and RCW 10.01.120, the governor is granted the authority to issue reprieves — or stays of execution— and, consistent with his intent to issue a moratorium on death penalty executions, Governor Inslee has issued a reprieve in Clark Elmore’s case. This action does not commute Mr. Elmore’s sentence nor issue a pardon and he will remain in the State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for the rest of his life. In recent weeks the governor spoke with the Whatcom County prosecutor, who asked the governor to reconsider his position, as well as the victim’s family who expressed a preference to see Elmore serve life in prison.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Governor Inslee has been very consistent that his moratorium on the death penalty cases in Washington isn’t about individual cases. As he stated when he announced the moratorium in 2014 the action is based on the governor’s belief that the use of capital punishment across the state is inconsistent and unequally applied – sometimes dependent on the budget of the county where the crime occurred.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The governor urges the state legislature to end the death penalty once and for all. </blockquote><br />Sources: <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article123674119.html" target="_blank">The News Tribune</a>, <a href="http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/gov-jay-inslee-grants-reprieve-in-child-murderers-execution/479777125" target="_blank">Kiro7</a>, December 29, 2016<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: <a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com">deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a>.</div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 204, 0); color: black; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sspwgGptzvuHVklum5TwxKppRN-lIC5TN8RLZFq_B4ZOtBrX1ssXPNKQ6XpSyQFRJRtVQN45HMkpt3VX0JtOW0TovwxZAurG-AV6gh98IAXo7Ip6QlpkZr9WrM3_m943Mwy-gGxBAY/s1600/Find+us+Facebook.jpg" /></a></div></td> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULIPEaT_P6oIauxAZd17XRRxljesDLS7iIjdQXT7Xct99uHeohx4IYmiAB6S044gTjMDGSy50sL2vDzOyPZ-3vJj9zwcYQ2rgzJh9v1-QDiunKAQtLLLqJ83s38qN3HABxGIC8GsIOD0/s1600/Find+us+twitter.jpg" /></a><span id="goog_1427852018"></span><span id="goog_1427852019"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Opposed to Capital Punishment? 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Washington Governor Jay Inslee grants reprieve to child killer on death row

Washington Governor Jay Inslee BELLINGHAM - Gov. Jay Inslee granted a reprieve Thursday to a Bellingham man sentenced to death for the rape ...

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