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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 | Man executed in Qom, Man executed Hamedan

Hamed Dehghan Mangabadi executed in Langroud Prison, Qom, on October 15.

In the report of the execution of this prisoner published by Hrana, it is stated: “Hamid was a transit driver before. He was arrested on charges of drug possession and then sentenced to death.

Due to the nationwide protests, the news of executions in prisons has been less published for some time.

But according to some informed sources, execution of prisoners is going on in some prisons, including in Rasht prison, but the news is not leaked.

Man executed in Hamedan


Hossein Karimabadi executed in Hamedan prison on October 16, 2022

Hossein Karimabadi has been in prison for about four years. He has never been arrested before. An informed source told Iranian Human Rights Society. “Hossein had a first record and even though it is said that they do not execute him with a first record, they executed him.”

Hossein Karimabadi’s family went to Hamadan prison for the last visit the day before. And waited behind the prison door until morning to avoid the execution of their loved one.

An informed source said: “After being transferred to his cell, this prisoner cut his jugular vein and committed suicide, however, he was executed in this condition.”

The body of this prisoner was handed over to his family and he will be buried in Kangavar on Monday at 9:00 am.

Source: iranhrs.org, Staff, October 15-16, 2022





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