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Arkansas Supreme Court Decision Allows New DNA Testing in Case of the ​“West Memphis Three,” Convicted of Killing Three Children in 1993

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On April 18, 2024, the Arkansas Supreme Court decided 4-3 to reverse a 2022 lower court decision and allow genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the 1993 killing of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three men convicted in 1994 for the killings were released in 2011 after taking an Alford plea, in which they maintained their innocence but plead guilty to the crime, in exchange for 18 years’ time served and 10 years of a suspended sentence. 

Iran: 12 hanged in Mashhad and Rajai Shahr prisons

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Iran Human Rights (Aug 18, 2018): Six prisoners were executed at Mashhad Prison on the charge of “armed robbery”.

According to a report by ISNA, on the morning of Saturday, August 18, six prisoners were executed at Mashhad Prison. 

The prisoners, whose identities have not been mentioned, were sentenced to death on the charge of “armed robbery”.

According to the report, the defendants attacked a car that was carrying jewellery and stole one kilogram of jewellery. 

They also committed an armed robbery in October 2015.

The report doesn’t mention whether anyone has been injured.

According to confirmed reports by Iran Human Rights (IHR), at least 36 people were executed in different Iranian cities in the month of July.

Six hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison


Iran Human Rights (Aug 19, 2018): According to new information obtained by IHR, six prisoners were hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges in early August.

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, August 1, six prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison. 

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The prisoners, all sentenced to death on murder charges, were transferred to the solitary confinement on Saturday, July 28.

Only one of the inmates who were transferred to the solitary confinement was able to return to his cell by asking for time from the plaintiffs, the other six were executed.

Neither the state-run media nor the Iranian Judiciary’s Public Relations announced these executions.

Considering the high number of unannounced executions, as well as the measures were taken by the authorities to prevent leaking news from prisons, there is a high probability that the number of the executions carried out in the last few months is much higher than what human rights organizations are aware of.

The suppression of Iranian human rights activists whose activities involved raising awareness and informing people also gives a cause for concern.

Source: Iran Human Rights, August 18-19, 2018


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