Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe commuted a death row inmate's sentence on Thursday stating the conviction was flawed. Ivan Teleguz was sentenced to death for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in 2001. McAuliffe stayed the execution of...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized their decision on Thursday to not allow the Texas prison officials to receive a shipment of lethal injection drugs that were originally seized in July 2015....
Human Rights Watch and other advocacy groups urged UN Secretary General on Thursday to investigate alleged abuse against LGBT people in Chechnya. According to the open letter about 100 gay and bisexual men have been detained,...
Internet services were returned to two areas of Cameroon with English-speaking populations on Friday following a three-month shutdown, according to a state-run radio report. President Paul Biya had restricted Internet services in Northwest and Southwest regions...
Dutch timber trader Guus Kouwenhoven was sentenced to 19 years in prison by an appellate court in Den Bosch on Friday after he was found guilty of smuggling weapons into Liberia during that country's civil...
The UK Ministry of Justice announced on Friday plans to separate 28 "dangerous extremist" from the main stream prison population by placing them in one of three separation centers. Prisoners who are subject to separation are...
Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) , Babar Baloch, said in a press release on Friday that over 11,000 refugees from the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have recently escaped to...
Seven human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch , on Thursday denounced the government of Equatorial Guinea for arresting Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve, activists who lead the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID) [advocacy...
A special federal judicial panel in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Thursday ruled that the redistricting plan adopted by the Texas legislature was drawn to deliberately diminish the influence of...
The state of Arkansas on Thursday held the execution of Ledell Lee, the first in the state in 11 years. The sentence was carried out following the denial earlier that day by the US Supreme Court [official...
