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31Dec2016

Pat Scott Dykas Died At A Milwaukee Southside Speedway Gas Station, Circumstances Unclear

<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtjkCUuuA3SgJbPbQWuJln-3RIoHY13dagqBa0VCbfpWNmRb-ol4IYgo_souHhlAm5TAKl1rpSfvMrIR_y_ms_9o2IGnLs6ltc5HG5PUdb9xjym5dpk8cyicca3LgyhYbIJAV5s4YQ5gg/s1600/Pat+Scott+Dykas-786586.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6370396804849378258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtjkCUuuA3SgJbPbQWuJln-3RIoHY13dagqBa0VCbfpWNmRb-ol4IYgo_souHhlAm5TAKl1rpSfvMrIR_y_ms_9o2IGnLs6ltc5HG5PUdb9xjym5dpk8cyicca3LgyhYbIJAV5s4YQ5gg/s320/Pat+Scott+Dykas-786586.jpg" /></a></div>Dykas had been released from the Milwaukee County House of Corrections hours earlier before his death at a local Southside Speedway gas station in Milwaukee.<br /><div><br /></div><div>By H. Nelson Goodson</div><div>Hispanic News Network U.S.A.</div><div><br /></div><div>December 31, 2016</div><div><br /></div><div>Milwaukee, WI - On Friday, Pat Scott Dykas, 27, apparently died at a local Southside Milwaukee Speedway gas station at 959 W. Lincoln Ave. Police and fire fighters responded to a call at around 6:34 p.m. for a reported injury or sick person. The Speedway gas station was closed and police placed yellow tape around the immediate area of the gas station.</div><div>Police continue to investigate Dykas death and it is still unclear how Dykas died. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office hasn't released any information either relating to Dykas death.</div><div>Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) contacted Speedway staff on Saturday, no information was provided, but the person who answered at Speedway stated that it wasn't a robbery and couldn't elaborate further about what happened. Police have not released any information about Dykas death.</div><div>According to information, Dykas had been released hours earlier from the Milwaukee County House of Corrections on Friday before his reported death at the Speedway gas station.</div><div><br /></div>A Gofundme has been created for Pat Dykas funeral expenses at <a href="http://bit.ly/2jlXAxS">http://bit.ly/2jlXAxS</a><br /><br />

Pat Scott Dykas Died At A Milwaukee Southside Speedway Gas Station, Circumstances Unclear

Dykas had been released from the Milwaukee County House of Corrections hours earlier before his death at a local Southside Speedway gas station in Milwaukee.By H. Nelson GoodsonHispanic News Network U.S.A.December 31, 2016Milwaukee, WI - On Friday, Pat Scott Dykas, 27, apparently died at a local Sou…

31Dec2016

Social Security Employee Pleads Guilty

Social Security Employee Pleads Guilty

From the Times of San Diego:A Social Security Administration employee who accepted payments and had the authority to waive money owed to the government by overpaid beneficiaries pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing money orders and depositing them into his own checking account. Josue Edgardo Cas…

31Dec2016

Mexico's PEMEX 20% Gasoline Price Increase Ignites National Transport Blockade A Day After New Year's Day

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAd86lh-2yQMotZKohycGZ8vAzwWfeWGeSHjEcbUc4M26QofIJXdQ7mos2xdcFx4DtDGL0Nxp5WRNfaII4TQPqmmDs4flU3bWovY-h3ufQXsphonWdc7G8UoZ8zJzMxsXME8CCXbY3piI/s1600/PEMEX+20%2525+gasoline+increase+for+2017-729295.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6369982094581090850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAd86lh-2yQMotZKohycGZ8vAzwWfeWGeSHjEcbUc4M26QofIJXdQ7mos2xdcFx4DtDGL0Nxp5WRNfaII4TQPqmmDs4flU3bWovY-h3ufQXsphonWdc7G8UoZ8zJzMxsXME8CCXbY3piI/s320/PEMEX+20%2525+gasoline+increase+for+2017-729295.jpg" /></a></p>Chihuahua joins the National Transport blockade to protest a federal 20% increase of PEMEX gasoline prices in Mexico.<div><br></div><div>By H. Nelson Goodson</div><div>Hispanic News Network U.S.A.</div><div><br></div><div>December 30, 2016<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">Chihuahua, Mexico - All roads, highways and train travel routes in Chihuahua, Mexico will be blocked on Monday, January 2, 2017 starting around 7:00 a.m. for a national protest of a federal 20% increase of PEMEX gasoline prices approved by the Mexican Congress and the Peña Nieto government, according to El Barzón, a civil social rights organization in Chihuahua. Only police emergency vehicles, first responders and ambulances will be permited to cross citizen blockades around the State of Chihuahua and other states involved in the national protest.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">On January 1, 2017, the monopoly national gasoline PEMEX Company will increase gasoline prices per liter by 20% under a federal law passed by the Mexican Congress and President Enrique Peña Nieto.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">• Magna (Regular gas): $15.99 pesos per liter (U.S. $0.77) +14.2% increase <br dir="auto">• Premium: $17.79 pesos per liter (U.S. $0.85) +20.1% increase <br dir="auto">• Diesel: $17.05 pesos per liter (U.S. $0.82) +16.5% increase <br dir="auto"></div>

Mexico's PEMEX 20% Gasoline Price Increase Ignites National Transport Blockade A Day After New Year's Day

Chihuahua joins the National Transport blockade to protest a federal 20% increase of PEMEX gasoline prices in Mexico.By H. Nelson GoodsonHispanic News Network U.S.A.December 30, 2016Chihuahua, Mexico - All roads, highways and train travel routes in Chihuahua, Mexico will be blocked on Monday, Januar…

30Dec2016

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30Dec2016

Florida's death penalty system will face renewed stress in 2017

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Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE — Florida's death penalty system, under sustained legal assault for the past year, faces renewed pressure in 2017 that will strain courts, victims and taxpayers in ways sure to rekindle a debate over capital punishment.A series of federal and state court rulings wi…

30Dec2016

Man Arrested For Bringing Pistol Into Social Security Office

Man Arrested For Bringing Pistol Into Social Security Office

A man was arrested yesterday after bringing a pistol into the Social Security field office in Mobile, AL.…

30Dec2016

Pakistan to hang 'butcher of Swat' Muslim Khan

<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/AVvXsEiS6UX9B5NAolsP-_3AO63_l3_vW5wfpUBkqm4Yd7LTVbK8hF2rz1BWky2lHay_alvXSh8k1LuV5GI64521vD2GaNYQPUSGrUo8UIf24bSfl1YjP7glGw3eyQi_DZfRWvG_0kU53gkqlx8/s1600/Muslim+Khan+was+the+face+of+the+Swat+Taliban+for+many+months+PAKISTAN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Muslim Khan was the face of the Swat Taliban for many months" border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6UX9B5NAolsP-_3AO63_l3_vW5wfpUBkqm4Yd7LTVbK8hF2rz1BWky2lHay_alvXSh8k1LuV5GI64521vD2GaNYQPUSGrUo8UIf24bSfl1YjP7glGw3eyQi_DZfRWvG_0kU53gkqlx8/s400/Muslim+Khan+was+the+face+of+the+Swat+Taliban+for+many+months+PAKISTAN.jpg" title="Muslim Khan was the face of the Swat Taliban for many months" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muslim Khan was the face of the Swat Taliban for many months.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">A military court in Pakistan has sentenced a top Pakistani Taliban leader from the Swat region to death.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muslim Khan, a former spokesman for the militants, was convicted of killing 31 people, including civilians and security personnel, the military said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He is among eight "terrorists" whose death penalty was confirmed by army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The military courts were set up in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre. Their term expires next week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Others whose convictions were confirmed by the army chief on Wednesday include four gunmen sentenced for involvement in a 2015 bus massacre of Ismaili Shias in Karachi, and the assassination of social activist Sabeen Mahmud, also in Karachi the same year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Why 'butcher of Swat'?</h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muslim Khan, 62, started out as a student activist of a left-wing secular party in the 1960s, but underwent an ideological transformation in the early 1990s when a pre-Taliban Islamist movement briefly emerged in his native Swat region.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2007, he became the chief spokesman of the Swat Taliban, and was the movement's public face during its stranglehold over the region which continued until the winter of 2009.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His forceful defence of the Taliban's policy of killings, beheadings and the destruction of schools in Swat earned him and Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah the title of "butcher of Swat".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The military's statement described him as "a spokesman of a proscribed organisation [who] was involved in killing innocent civilians, attacking armed forces and law enforcement agencies of Pakistan".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These attacks resulted in the death of 31 people and injuries to 69 others, the statement said, adding that he was involved in "slaughtering" four soldiers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"He was also involved in kidnapping two Chinese engineers and a local civilian for ransom. The convict admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was awarded the death sentence."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A former BBC Urdu correspondent, Abdul Hai Kakar, who met him in September 2009, reported that he spoke several languages, including Urdu, English, Arabic and Persian, in addition to his mother tongue Pashto.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He had lived in or travelled across more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe, the US and the Far East.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He has been in custody since his arrest in 2009 during the military operation that drove the Taliban out of Swat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Was the trial fair?</h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The military court trials are held in secret, and prisoners on trial are held in internment centres run by the military, away from the mainstream jail population.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scores of suspects have been convicted by the military courts since they were set up in January 2015 - obtaining accurate information is difficult because secrecy makes it almost impossible to scrutinise the process.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dawn newspaper said more than 270 cases had been sent to the military courts in the past two years. They gave death sentences to 161 people, while 116 were given jail terms, mostly life sentences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in June had a lower figure, saying the military courts had convicted 81 people during the 18 months of their existence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So far only 12 suspects have been executed by the military courts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Others have gone to the courts to challenge the fairness of the trials, but judges have failed to intervene.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ICJ has accused the Pakistani authorities of failing to make public key information about the trials, with similar objections raised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and other groups.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BBC asked the Interior Ministry for information on cases tried by the military courts but has not yet received a response.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><br />What happens to military courts now?</h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The convictions made public on Wednesday are believed to be the last by military courts before their legal term expires in January 2017.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is not clear if their term will be extended.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elements within the military want the term of the military courts extended, believing the government is not up to dealing with terrorism-related offences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But rights groups and some political circles say law and order has improved and the justification for military courts no longer exists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Source: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38462706" target="_blank">BBC News</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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Pakistan to hang 'butcher of Swat' Muslim Khan

Muslim Khan was the face of the Swat Taliban for many months.A military court in Pakistan has sentenced a top Pakistani Taliban leader from the Swat region to death.Muslim Khan, a former spokesman for the militants, was convicted of killing 31 people, including civilians and security personnel, the …

30Dec2016

Jordan: Five ISIS militants, four drug traffickers sentenced to death

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGaoZq7QNEnAnhKYsUEkPyY5wp-9pq2pzeXualAPariFsq3o0hwiPmidpqhLjiE_KNibnxC3ozRfHx7j4G-CxbomzvK92gc-A-sPPISlnndNhJifJxFG4ZYShIlLkYI0smRR4xUYvHtzo/s1600/Jordanian_Police_Officers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Jordanian police officers" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGaoZq7QNEnAnhKYsUEkPyY5wp-9pq2pzeXualAPariFsq3o0hwiPmidpqhLjiE_KNibnxC3ozRfHx7j4G-CxbomzvK92gc-A-sPPISlnndNhJifJxFG4ZYShIlLkYI0smRR4xUYvHtzo/s400/Jordanian_Police_Officers.jpg" title="Jordanian police officers" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">December 28, 2016: A Jordanian court sentenced five members of an ISIL cell to death by hanging for acts of terrorism. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The state security court in Amman also handed jail terms of between three and 15 years to another 16 Jordanians in the same case. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were found guilty of deadly "acts of terrorism", the manufacture of explosives and "possession of weapons and ammunition for use in terrorist acts" and recruiting people for "terrorist organisations". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The group of 21 were members of an ISIL cell that was broken up in March during a large-scale security operation in the northern town of Irbid, near the border with Syria. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seven suspected militants and a member of the Jordanian security forces were killed during the operation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The authorities announced later that they had foiled ISIL attacks in the kingdom, which had already been hit by deadly attacks over the past year. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ten people were killed in a shooting rampage on December 18 in the popular tourist destination of Karak. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The attack was claimed by ISIL and marked the first time the group had targeted civilians in Jordan. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two days later, the authorities arrested a man suspected of funding the attack in a raid on a house in Karak province.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">December 26, 2016: A state security court sentenced four Jordanians to death for murdering a member of the security forces involved in the fight against drugs trafficking, a judicial source said. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, the source said the four were sentenced to die by hanging for killing the policeman in September in Aqaba province some 300 kilometres (180 miles) south of Amman. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The four were also convicted of "possession of automatic weapons... leading to the death of a person", the source added. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A fifth defendant in the same case was sentenced to 18 months in jail for possessing an unlicensed firearm. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The policeman had been taking part in an operation to arrest a person accused of drugs possession when he was fired on by gunmen in two cars. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In August, the authorities said more than six tonnes of illegal drugs had been seized and more than 13,000 people suspected of smuggling, possessing or using drugs were arrested during the first half of the year. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The interior ministry says 85 percent of drugs seized in Jordan are destined to be smuggled abroad. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: Agence France-Presse, December 26-28, 2016<br /><br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Security Court hands down death sentence for killer of slain writer Nahed Hattar</h2><br />December 20, 2016: Jordan's Deputy Director General of the State Security Court sentenced the killer of writer Nahed Hattar to death by hanging, al-Ghad newspaper reported. <br /><br />Military judge Ziad al-Adwan added in a statement that the court had also investigated a second defendant who sold the weapon to the murderer, and a third defendant who acted as a middle-man in buying the weapon. Each were sentenced to one year in jail and fines. <br /><br />Riad Ismail Abdullah, the primary suspect in Hattar's murder was convicted on charges of carrying out acts of terrorism, murder, and carrying and possession of a firearm without a license. <br /><br />Hattar was gunned down on September 25 on the steps of the supreme court, and Abdullah was arrested immediately after committing the crime. <br /><br />The prosecutor general of the State Security Court concluded its investigation on October 18 and referred the case file to the court for sentencing.<br /><br />Source: albawaba.com, December 20, 2016</div><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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Jordan: Five ISIS militants, four drug traffickers sentenced to death

December 28, 2016: A Jordanian court sentenced five members of an ISIL cell to death by hanging for acts of terrorism. The state security court in Amman also handed jail terms of between three and 15 years to another 16 Jordanians in the same case. They were found guilty of deadly "acts of terrorism…

30Dec2016

Nigeria: Edo State Executes Three Inmates

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtYDjyxtdwKsyRyEdu5ugEeDNX4J-K5-nZrFgXj5Ii8vDzMtEW0lU4CD9MCmhaQpGFNxJIZM6EX8iHsk0W4vpTtKGyambbespgDTRAUxHRCD90Gv759TgqVIt0Vv1v3UIVYOC9loFkOPA/s1600/Nigeria+flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Nigeria flag" border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtYDjyxtdwKsyRyEdu5ugEeDNX4J-K5-nZrFgXj5Ii8vDzMtEW0lU4CD9MCmhaQpGFNxJIZM6EX8iHsk0W4vpTtKGyambbespgDTRAUxHRCD90Gv759TgqVIt0Vv1v3UIVYOC9loFkOPA/s400/Nigeria+flag.jpg" title="Nigeria flag" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">December 23, 2016: Edo State government executed three death row inmates who were sentenced to death by military tribunals under the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Decree 1971 as amended. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The state had announced its intention to execute three death row prisoners at Oko Prisons in Benin City. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Nation learnt that the execution took place December 23 as scheduled. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those executed are – Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene and Mark Omosowhota. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were said to have been executed around 6:00 a.m. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A rights group, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), through its director Chino Obiagwu, had petitioned Governor Godwin Obaseki to halt the planned execution. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have filed an appeal pending at the Court of Lagos seeking order that these prisoners have right of appeal under the 1999 Constitution.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Obiagwu told The Nation on December 27 that his clients had been executed despite the petition. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It could not be confirmed if it was Obaseki or his predecessor Adams Oshiomhole who signed their death warrants. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: thenationonlineng.net, December 27, 2016</div><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? Help us keep this blog up and running! <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JBVXEBZLP3WKW" target="_blank">DONATE!</a></b></div><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_blank"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/fr_FR/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></div></form><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>

Nigeria: Edo State Executes Three Inmates

December 23, 2016: Edo State government executed three death row inmates who were sentenced to death by military tribunals under the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Decree 1971 as amended. The state had announced its intention to execute three death row prisoners at Oko Prisons in Benin Ci…

30Dec2016

Pakistan: Death Sentence Revoked One Day Ahead of Execution

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbc_zsbdDalAnCERM7nttum4zrUSuCMpXhKNDF-AIa38ww8RPBYAeJEj9D5ThUCZJnVBTP263BoXqtIpmkryZzmbrIg8v3yGIlQtIw68ISLx-Zk72-GcufW8e8aqo4mZI-UZ1PLBvRyqE/s1600/Gallows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gallows" border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbc_zsbdDalAnCERM7nttum4zrUSuCMpXhKNDF-AIa38ww8RPBYAeJEj9D5ThUCZJnVBTP263BoXqtIpmkryZzmbrIg8v3yGIlQtIw68ISLx-Zk72-GcufW8e8aqo4mZI-UZ1PLBvRyqE/s400/Gallows.jpg" title="Gallows" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">December 26, 2016: Ghulam Abbas Suhani had to be hanged on December 27 but the execution was stopped today, just one day ahead of the due date, as the elders of the area brought both the parties to the table and helped them settle to a reconciliation, reported Daily Dunya. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to details, Saleem Suhani had murdered Ghulam Abbas Suhani’s elder brother Mohammad Ramzan. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saleem was jailed for this murder but when his brother Fauji Muhammad Esa went to DG Khan, Ramzan’s younger brother Ghulam Abbas murdered him inside the court. He also presented himself for arrest. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court sentenced him to death. And the sentence was to be carried out on December 27 but the family members and elders of the community helped them reconcile. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ghulam Abbas’s family paid Saleem’s family with Rs 16.5 million, which is equal to the price of 100 camels, according to Sharia. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Local MPA Javed Akhtar Lund, Chairman Rehan Khan Lund, Maulana Umar Mujahid and Mumtaz Sukhani played a critical role in the reconciliation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sources: Daily Dunya, December 26, 2016<br /><br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">70-year-old death-row convict hanged in Rawalpindi; First execution in 3 months</h2><br />December 24, 2016: A 70-year-old death-row convict was hanged in Rawalpindi’ Adiala jail after a span of 20 years. <br /><br />The execution comes after a pause of almost three months and implementation of death penalties have resumed in jails across the country, an Adiala Jail official said. <br /><br />According to jail administration, the convict Khan Iqbal had fled from the jail during Taliban’s attack on Bannu jail. He later returned to Gojar Khan and started working as a cobbler. <br /><br />However; he was identified by slain Shakeel’s relatives after which he was arrested again on October 21, 2015. <br /><br />A case was registered against Khan Iqbal on August 1, 1996 over the murder of Muhammad Shakeel. Trial court had sentenced him to death. <br /><br />He was then shifted to Bannu jail on September 16, 2011 but ran away during Taliban’s attack on the prison on April 15, 2015. <br /><br />His mercy appeal was also rejected by the President on December 13, 2016 after which his death warrants were issued.<br /><br />Sources: Dunya News, The Express Tribune, December 25, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><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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Pakistan: Death Sentence Revoked One Day Ahead of Execution

December 26, 2016: Ghulam Abbas Suhani had to be hanged on December 27 but the execution was stopped today, just one day ahead of the due date, as the elders of the area brought both the parties to the table and helped them settle to a reconciliation, reported Daily Dunya. According to details, Sale…

30Dec2016

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

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

Washington Governor Jay InsleeBELLINGHAM - 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.A Whatcom County jury sentenced Clark Richard Elmore to death in 1996, for the killing of his girlfriend’s teenage daughter. Elm…

30Dec2016

Nebraska: Hearing on controversial lethal injection protocol proposal

Nebraska: Hearing on controversial lethal injection protocol proposal

Nebraska's death chamberA state hearing on a controversial lethal injection protocol proposal will begin at 9 a.m. Friday at the State Office Building in Lincoln. Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, who opposes the death penalty, and says the proposed protocol raises constitutional questions, will be at the …

30Dec2016

Video Shows Several Turkish Soldiers Burned Alive By ISIS

<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vmsCaoLso8qhAy5n0b7bmmeVZcX0HcAGMmsyuWlfcOeoLEIx7qF8-bXr2v2PUGKqMRLr6FSd5PHN-MOdHDEiZmC-UUJ5VOXh-7mIBy4VfCOLqe4-ZUTJOi1nBxtWG5t9QUYG4bv9QWE/s1600/ISIS+terrorists+burned+alive+2+Turkish+soldiers-733873.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6369792703625691618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vmsCaoLso8qhAy5n0b7bmmeVZcX0HcAGMmsyuWlfcOeoLEIx7qF8-bXr2v2PUGKqMRLr6FSd5PHN-MOdHDEiZmC-UUJ5VOXh-7mIBy4VfCOLqe4-ZUTJOi1nBxtWG5t9QUYG4bv9QWE/s320/ISIS+terrorists+burned+alive+2+Turkish+soldiers-733873.jpg" /></a></div>ISIS terrorists failed to cover faces as they killed several Turkish soldiers by burning them alive.<br /><div><br /></div><div>By H. Nelson Goodson</div><div>Hispanic News Network U.S.A.</div><div><br /></div><div>December 30, 2016</div><div><br /></div><div>An Islamic State video has surfaced showing several Turkish soldiers in a cage who are chained by the neck and body with flammable liquid bags attached to them. The graphic <a href="http://m.clarionproject.org/news/perhaps-most-barbaric-isis-execution-video">video</a> was posted in the Clarion Project dot org Web page to education and show how destructible and evil the Islamic State operates to spread their terror in occupied territories.</div><div>No information was provided where it was recorded or when the video was made and date it was released.</div>

Video Shows Several Turkish Soldiers Burned Alive By ISIS

ISIS terrorists failed to cover faces as they killed several Turkish soldiers by burning them alive.By H. Nelson GoodsonHispanic News Network U.S.A.December 30, 2016An Islamic State video has surfaced showing several Turkish soldiers in a cage who are chained by the neck and body with flammable liqu…

29Dec2016

The Stolen Supreme Court Seat

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoM_w-5SulQFmfKpQkOFtwTQ3s1C6xwNtdhtnywBdeJBR8u3ZAvdU8adYjrYgZQFkSH_3Utu_p-zYNKH1ET6p6sb3xXn6XlWGtNFGwU62zJng8Hma6XvFHEKXh98usba6YuHAOkae5EOQ/s1600/US+Supreme+Court.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="US Supreme Court" border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoM_w-5SulQFmfKpQkOFtwTQ3s1C6xwNtdhtnywBdeJBR8u3ZAvdU8adYjrYgZQFkSH_3Utu_p-zYNKH1ET6p6sb3xXn6XlWGtNFGwU62zJng8Hma6XvFHEKXh98usba6YuHAOkae5EOQ/s400/US+Supreme+Court.jpg" title="US Supreme Court" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Soon after his inauguration next month, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate someone to the Supreme Court, which has been hamstrung by a vacancy since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February. There will be public debates about the nominee’s credentials, past record, judicial philosophy and temperament. There will be Senate hearings and a vote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No matter how it plays out, Americans must remember one thing above all: The person who gets confirmed will sit in a stolen seat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was stolen from Barack Obama, a twice-elected president who fulfilled his constitutional duty more than nine months ago by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/opinion/merrick-garland-for-the-supreme-court.html" target="_blank">nominating Merrick Garland</a>, a highly qualified and widely respected federal appellate judge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was stolen by top Senate Republicans, who broke with longstanding tradition and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/us/politics/supreme-court-nomination-obama.html" target="_blank">refused to consider</a> any nominee Mr. Obama might send them, because they wanted to preserve the court’s conservative majority. The main perpetrators of the theft were Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. But virtually all Republican senators were accomplices; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/21/us/politics/where-republican-senators-stand-on-the-supreme-court-nomination.html" target="_blank">only two</a> supported holding hearings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Republican party line — that it was an election year, so the American people should have a “voice” in the selection of the next justice — was a patent lie. The people spoke when they re-elected Mr. Obama in 2012, entrusting him to choose new members for the court. And the Senate <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/opinion/in-election-years-a-history-of-confirming-court-nominees.html" target="_blank">has had no problem</a> considering, and usually confirming, election-year nominees in the past.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course, Supreme Court appointments have always been political, and the court’s ideological center has shifted back and forth over time. But the Senate has given nominees full consideration and a vote even when the party in power has opposed a president’s choice. That is, until this year, when Republicans claimed that though the Constitution<a href="http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/article-ii-section-2" target="_blank"> calls for the Senate’s </a><a href="http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/article-ii-section-2">“advice and consent,”</a> senators aren’t obligated to do anything. This is a bad-faith reading of that clause, even if there is no clear way to force a vote. It certainly obliterates a well-established political norm that makes a functioning judicial branch possible. As Paul Krugman <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/how-republics-end.html" target="_blank">wrote </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/how-republics-end.html">in his column</a> on Monday, institutions are not magically self-sustaining, and they “don’t protect against tyranny when powerful people start defying political norms.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This particular norm is of paramount importance because the court’s institutional legitimacy depends on its perceived separation from the elected branches — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/us/politics/john-roberts-criticized-supreme-court-confirmation-process-before-there-was-a-vacancy.html?_r=0" target="_blank">a fragile concept</a> in the best of times. By tying the latest appointment directly to the outcome of the election, Mr. McConnell and his allies took a torch to that idea — an outrageous gambit that, to nearly everyone’s shock, has paid off. But while Republicans may be celebrating now, the damage they have inflicted on the confirmation process, and on the court as an institution, may be irreversible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIpsBYs9L2DTMlBp5Ls6uKMHG6PP5nRzPH47iLYv9tlLwbydOo6PHINg-FgcUqDQ5r4_yr3Nj69XtcxA5-xhYA_h3oJHSD65p9m8j_JJGrfLiH57-Cl0B7JD22tLlfxaXyk3Mk-Sto7E/s1600/Antonin+Scalia+Death_PH09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIpsBYs9L2DTMlBp5Ls6uKMHG6PP5nRzPH47iLYv9tlLwbydOo6PHINg-FgcUqDQ5r4_yr3Nj69XtcxA5-xhYA_h3oJHSD65p9m8j_JJGrfLiH57-Cl0B7JD22tLlfxaXyk3Mk-Sto7E/s400/Antonin+Scalia+Death_PH09.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The slope is both slippery and steep. If Republicans could justify an election-year blockade, what’s to stop Democrats in the future from doing the same? For that matter, why should the party controlling the Senate <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-20/supreme-court-nominations-will-never-be-the-same" target="_blank">ever allow</a> a president of the opposing party to choose a justice<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-20/supreme-court-nominations-will-never-be-the-same">?</a> Indeed, in the weeks before the election, Senate Republicans were threatening, with the encouragement of leading conservative thinkers, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/a-coup-against-the-supreme-court.html" target="_blank">never to confirm anyone</a> to fill the vacancy if Hillary Clinton won.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Can anything be done to repair the harm? One step — as obvious as it is unlikely — would be for Mr. Trump to renominate Mr. Garland. Conservatives will scoff, but they know he is as qualified for the job as anyone in the country. When Mr. Garland was floated as a possible choice for the Supreme Court in 2010, Orrin Hatch, the senior Republican senator from Utah, called him a “consensus nominee” and said there was <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-hatch-idUSTRE6456QY20100506" target="_blank">“no question”</a> that he would be confirmed with bipartisan support. That’s partly why Mr. Obama nominated him this time, and also why Mr. McConnell denied him a hearing — he knew he couldn’t prevent a Senate vote once Americans saw an eminently qualified and reasonable jurist testify on live TV.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the very least, Mr. Trump could follow President Obama’s example and pick a centrist — someone who commands wide respect and operates within the bounds of mainstream legal thought. That would be an appropriate gesture from a man who lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes and will enter office with the <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/199352/trump-transition-approval-lower-predecessors.aspx" target="_blank">lowest approval</a><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/199352/trump-transition-approval-lower-predecessors.aspx"> ratings</a> in recent history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The shameful, infuriating actions of the Senate Republicans won’t be ignored in the history books. In a desperate effort to keep a conservative majority on the court, they rejected their own professed values of preserving American institutions. There’s little hope that they will come to their senses now, but they and Mr. Trump have the power, and the obligation, to fix the mess they created.</div><br />Source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/opinion/sunday/the-stolen-supreme-court-seat.html" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>, The Editorial Borad, December 24, 2016<br /><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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Are ALJs Unconstitutional?

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Iran: Public Flogging Sentence Carried Out, Brothers Amputated for Theft

Iran: Public Flogging Sentence Carried Out, Brothers Amputated for Theft

Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsNCRI - According to eyewitnesses, on December 28th, flogging punishment of a young man charged with theft, and whose identity is unrevealed, has been carried out in public in the city of Iranshahr – South Eastern Iran.It is worth noting that the United Nations …

29Dec2016

Youths among dead as Philippine gunmen kill seven in 'drugs den'

<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/AVvXsEhIiw6i03j9M6-HN8Itgq4xKTp2wAdmj1rl33Wd23jKcDb0TTR3KNOoKB4cd6E-MPrd1F3ZAObRZ5Tb_jeanvCQsJAq3FqstVL51eWM1kxFPgvP8UKF5vUW1ABYQCxe40q9r6Eoq7d3P4A/s1600/1%252C800+drugs-related+killings+recorded+since+president+Duterte+took+office+seven+weeks+ago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiw6i03j9M6-HN8Itgq4xKTp2wAdmj1rl33Wd23jKcDb0TTR3KNOoKB4cd6E-MPrd1F3ZAObRZ5Tb_jeanvCQsJAq3FqstVL51eWM1kxFPgvP8UKF5vUW1ABYQCxe40q9r6Eoq7d3P4A/s400/1%252C800+drugs-related+killings+recorded+since+president+Duterte+took+office+seven+weeks+ago.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Since Duterte entered office in June, more than 5,000 people have<br />been killed in his war on drugs, some 2,000 at the hands of the<br />police and a further 3,000 by vigilante groups."</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">MANILA (Reuters) - Three minors were among seven people shot dead by suspected vigilantes in the Philippines at a house storing illegal narcotics, police said on Thursday, in the latest killings during a bloody and murky war on drugs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two unknown gunmen arrived on motorcycles and entered what police called a drugs den north of the capital Manila late on Wednesday. They opened fire on those inside, killing five instantly before fleeing, according to a police report, which said two other victims died before reaching the hospital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Four of those killed were teenagers, two of them 15, one 16 and one 18. The killings come as the government of President Rodrigo Duterte prepares legislation to put to Congress to lower the age of criminal liability to nine from 15.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More than 6,100 people have been killed in the past six months during Duterte's controversial war on drugs, about a third in police operations and others classified as deaths under investigation. Police say killings during counter-narcotics operations were in self-defense.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The crackdown, the core plank of Duterte's election campaign, has been condemned internationally and has created tension between the Philippines and key allies and donors, among them the European Union, United States and <a href="https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/12/philippines-duterte-calls-u-n-rights-official-idiot-murder-probe-call/" target="_blank">United Nations</a>. He has praised China for staying out of it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte has hit back with stunning rebukes and says he is willing to "rot in jail" to rid the Philippines of a drugs problem he initially vowed to solve within three to six months. He says the scourge was bigger than he first thought.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a television interview on Thursday, Duterte said the drugs war would not end soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Until the last pusher is out of the street... until the last drugs lord is killed, this drug campaign would continue to the last day of my term," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Killings by vigilantes have occurred often and the authorities have been accused by rights groups of hiring assassins to kill suspects.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte vehemently denies police are in cahoots with vigilantes and has said drugs gangs are killing rivals and silencing informants and it was taking place long before he took office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Source: Reuters, Neil Jerome Morales, Martin Petty, December 29, 2016<br /><br /><br /><h2>Duterte’s warning to corrupt Filipinos: ‘I threw a kidnapper out a helicopter before’</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">IN yet <a href="https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/12/philippines-duterte-publicly-admits-killing-people/" target="_blank">another public confession of a summary execution</a>, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday claimed he had once thrown a suspected kidnapper out of a helicopter mid-flight during his time as Davao city mayor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His admission was a warning to corrupt officials who he threatened would suffer the same fate in the government’s anti-corruption drive, referring to how he dealt with criminals in the past, the Philippine Star reported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“If you are corrupt I will fetch you with a helicopter and I will throw you out on the way to Manila,” Duterte was quoted as saying.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I have done that before, why should I not do it again?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte made the threat against corrupt officials during a speech at the Camarines Sur provincial capitol following his visit Typhoon Nina-hit disaster areas. He said much like his war on drugs, the anti-corruption campaign will be the main focus during his six-year term.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the Philippine Star, the president described the incident where he pursued the kidnappers of a Chinese individual who was tortured despite receiving ransom for his release.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said he had then ordered the pilot to fly at the right height before kicking the kidnapper off the helicopter so as to not cause a commotion from the body’s splatter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYWpnpaTO1CmdF0RbnR580AWSGiQ55jM2jnn3hD-ltSOXPpKzqJ8BQpayMGvIZxJe2cqONDnwtAydncf4Jken41KnoHm0ZkdghRSQOuquagm0FpldRmKWkPUASxi1kD9oWeyMc-eGcQw/s1600/Rodrigo+Duterte+in+Jakarta%2527s+State+Palace+9+SEPT+2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="President Rodrigo Duterte" border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYWpnpaTO1CmdF0RbnR580AWSGiQ55jM2jnn3hD-ltSOXPpKzqJ8BQpayMGvIZxJe2cqONDnwtAydncf4Jken41KnoHm0ZkdghRSQOuquagm0FpldRmKWkPUASxi1kD9oWeyMc-eGcQw/s400/Rodrigo+Duterte+in+Jakarta%2527s+State+Palace+9+SEPT+2016.jpg" title="President Rodrigo Duterte" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">President Rodrigo Duterte</td></tr></tbody></table>Earlier this month, the firebrand leader, who was once dubbed ‘The Punisher’ for meting out vigilante justice against hardcore criminals, said he <a href="https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/12/philippines-duterte-publicly-admits-killing-people/" target="_blank">personally killed suspected criminals</a> during his time as mayor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The president, now facing international heat for his administration’s violent war on drugs, said he conducted the killings himself to set an example for the police under his watch.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“In Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys (police) that if I can do it why can’t you,” he was quoted by the AFP as saying.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“And I’d go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The White House said boasts by Duterte that he used to ride around on his motorcycle in search of criminals to put down are “deeply troubling“, while the <a href="https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/12/philippines-duterte-calls-u-n-rights-official-idiot-murder-probe-call/" target="_blank">United Nations human rights commission has urged the Philippines to launch a murder investigation</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte served as Davao City mayor for nearly two decades. His rule was tainted by hundreds of extrajudicial killings and most, if not all, of the murders have been linked to him by critics.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the allegations, the murders were carried out by the Davao Death Squad (DDS) that Duterte himself had formed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In September, during the Senate inquiry into the extrajudicial killings, a man named Edgar Matobato came forward with a confession that rocked media headlines. In his testimony, Matobato admitted that he had been a hitman with the DDS and that he had killed more than 50 people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also linked Duterte to the killings, claiming the president had ordered his group of hitmen to pursue his rival supporters, bomb a mosque and kill Muslims, and set up an ambush for Senator Leila de Lima when she ordered a probe on the string of murders.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since Duterte entered office in June, more than 5,000 people have been killed in his war on drugs, some 2,000 at the hands of the police and a further 3,000 by vigilante groups.</div><br />Source: Asian Correspondent, Staff, December 28, 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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Youths among dead as Philippine gunmen kill seven in 'drugs den'

"Since Duterte entered office in June, more than 5,000 people havebeen killed in his war on drugs, some 2,000 at the hands of thepolice and a further 3,000 by vigilante groups."MANILA (Reuters) - Three minors were among seven people shot dead by suspected vigilantes in the Philippines at a house sto…

29Dec2016

Milwaukee White Cops Strike Child In The Mouth And Take Weapon From Revolutionary Black Panther Party

<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZFAP6DYO27MEXmn5uQE2VRMcLJJNyN6QDtfvXK2Zr3WaUH7DOAMYAUm2yqoBqJBKBJ6NbL0gCgQV_eOgLcnkB4KRchQPmTtzYZunNTF8CozuBLg6wW8RrwG2fqPLwQvPWuMGlOyZ-u0/s1600/RBPP+member+held+to+the+wall+by+MKE+White+cop-733753.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6369397566154446962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZFAP6DYO27MEXmn5uQE2VRMcLJJNyN6QDtfvXK2Zr3WaUH7DOAMYAUm2yqoBqJBKBJ6NbL0gCgQV_eOgLcnkB4KRchQPmTtzYZunNTF8CozuBLg6wW8RrwG2fqPLwQvPWuMGlOyZ-u0/s320/RBPP+member+held+to+the+wall+by+MKE+White+cop-733753.jpg" /></a></div><div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKY2mn5uNmxQgmA_dajeSfmwX93hBRrU_kqwfONMb_hUlPBwZ2V_PjU3FKRATnTPRB4ERDyWWF7_ZEVo_dYfZ7CAfmGnZ00WTWMuJkqUqbUSaPwIaOXbdsve5wVyBTqKjUbGS_rlC6tg/s1600/RBPP+food+pantry-736406.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6369397582378295922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKY2mn5uNmxQgmA_dajeSfmwX93hBRrU_kqwfONMb_hUlPBwZ2V_PjU3FKRATnTPRB4ERDyWWF7_ZEVo_dYfZ7CAfmGnZ00WTWMuJkqUqbUSaPwIaOXbdsve5wVyBTqKjUbGS_rlC6tg/s320/RBPP+food+pantry-736406.jpg" /></a></div><div>Members of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party get confronted by White cops who confiscated a weapon while holding an outdoor food pantry event at N. 27th Street and W. Fond du Lac Ave.</div><div><br /></div><div>By H. Nelson Goodson</div><div>Hispanic News Network U.S.A.</div><div><br /></div><div>December 28, 2016</div><div><br /></div><div>Milwaukee, WI - On Wednesday, multiple Milwaukee White cops and a supervisor were accused of interrupting a peaceful event held by the Revolutionary Black Panther Party (RBPP) at an outdoor sidewalk People's Public Pantry and Feed The People Program taking place at N. 27th Street and W. Fond du Lac Ave. Vaun L. Mayes, the RBPP National and Regional General including the Minister of Information/Media, also known as an Afro-American national civil rights activist who participated at the event posted a video he recorded of the incident on his Facebook (FB) account and reported that a Milwaukee police officer had struck a girl between the age of 11 to 12 in the mouth and the injury caused her to bleed.</div><div>Mayes told Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) when contacted that the RBPP have been kept under surveillance by the Milwaukee police, since the other day when the RBPP acquired a legal permit to marched and hold a rally on December 18 while armed against police brutality and corruption within the Seventh Milwaukee Police District Station under the command of Milwaukee Police Department Chief Edward Flynn.</div><div>Mayes has been very vocal against Milwaukee Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown, 24, who worked at the Seventh Milwaukee Police District Station and was recently charged with 1st-degree reckless homicide for the cold blooded murder of Sylville Smith, 23, near Sherman Park. Officer Heaggan-Brown has since been terminated from the Milwaukee Police Department. Heaggan-Brown who is Afro-American was also charged with two felony counts for 2nd-degree sexual assault of intoxicated victim, 2nd-degree sexual assault of unconscious victim, one felony count for capture an intimate representation and two misdemeanor counts for prostitution-none maritial intercourse for the August 15 sexual assault of a male victim, a day after killing Smith.</div><div>Heaggan-Brown had been also named with another officer in a federal lawsuit filed by a male victim, that both officers illegal targeted and stripped searched the victim.</div><div>Mayes says, that the RBPP have combined a Sherman Park food program with the People's Public Pantry and Feed The People Program to provide complimentary food and other services to the Afro-American community, but that police have been harassing the RBPP. </div><div>In a released statement, Mayes stated, "we recognize the police have targeted us since we did the armed march last week... this is apparent in our other live feeds. I make sure to document them following and watching us. This is unacceptable and it will not be tolerated. This is an organization of self defense, and we are an armed group. We will remain so. We will not be intimidated nor bullied out of our service to the community. The RBPP have done the Feed the People Program for months at that location without incident or complaints. My Program from Sherman Park, the Program in the Parks created the People's Public Pantry about a month or so ago, and have just joined both of them to bring more resources to the people in the community, where as my program usually operates out of Sherman Park."<br />According to Mayes, the police usually stakes out the RBPP sponsored food program with 3 to 4 police squads in the area, which engage in surveillance, take photos, video and etc., which in return, the RBPP does the same thing and documents police presence and post the RBPP intelligence gathering on Mayes FB account for the public to see.<br />On Wednesday police, "took one weapon, (which was legal and valid as far as licensed) and arrested one person for a petty bench warrant," Mayes reported.</div><div>The Milwaukee Police Department has yet to release a statement about confiscating a weapon while being open carried by a RBPP member and the allegation that a young girl was struck by an officer at the RBPP open pantry event in the Northside. A police sergeant at the scene had a body camera on his glasses and most likely other officers had body cameras as well and might have captured, which officer struck the young girl.<br />According to an officer at the scene in the video, he told the RBPP members that someone had called police and made a complaint because they were in front of a private business and obstructing the sidewalk with the food open pantry operation.</div><div><br /></div><div>MPD and RBPP incident videos at: <a href="https://youtu.be/i0J0oaZ6Wfg">https://youtu.be/i0J0oaZ6Wfg</a> and <a href="http://goo.gl/M5agNS">http://goo.gl/M5agNS</a></div><div><br /></div><br />Update: Vaun L. Mayes reported that the following Facebook (FB) accounts, Back the Blue Wisconsin and Sean Baker (a fake profile) are behind calling false police calls, the filing of false police reports, including the misuse of an electronic device.  Both FB accounts indicate the obvious and Baker admits the complicity.   <br /><br /><div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CIC2YyNW207iAaq_GClNzOHeD37FCZjcd1lXpaXmaQJl0N8YR5Ic_9arEu0dy9MtkCJyLoJ35L7SAirCj-2n6g31xgO7d0C0l3ulSh_rLwFvyp698uP3U_cxpPF7kOWsRiTn0FkAvSs/s1600/Facebook+accounts+making+false+police+reports-782915.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6369464783057518114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CIC2YyNW207iAaq_GClNzOHeD37FCZjcd1lXpaXmaQJl0N8YR5Ic_9arEu0dy9MtkCJyLoJ35L7SAirCj-2n6g31xgO7d0C0l3ulSh_rLwFvyp698uP3U_cxpPF7kOWsRiTn0FkAvSs/s320/Facebook+accounts+making+false+police+reports-782915.jpg" /></a><br /><br />WI: The Milwaukee Police Department including Police Chief Edward Flynn is facing a $400M federal civil lawsuit for the Constitutional rights violation incident involving White officers who illegally seized a weapon and a 10-year-old child was struck in the mouth by a careless officer during a confrontation with members of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party (RBPP), a Milwaukee organization.<br />Also, CBS 58 reported that the RBPP has not confirmed a date when the lawsuit will be filed. Chief Flynn and the MPD haven't responded to the RBPP claim that police officers violated their civil and Constitutional rights, according to CBS 58.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

Milwaukee White Cops Strike Child In The Mouth And Take Weapon From Revolutionary Black Panther Party

Members of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party get confronted by White cops who confiscated a weapon while holding an outdoor food pantry event at N. 27th Street and W. Fond du Lac Ave.By H. Nelson GoodsonHispanic News Network U.S.A.December 28, 2016Milwaukee, WI - On Wednesday, multiple Milwaukee…

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