Death Penalty News

Louisiana elected officials are once again pushing to resurrect the use of the death penalty for child rape, framing it as protection while setting the stage for a constitutional showdown.  These efforts are not subtle. They are a direct attempt to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana , which held that imposing the death penalty for a non-homicide offense violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Supporters frame these proposals as being tough on crime and protective of children. In reality, they threaten to unravel years of hard fought progress Louisiana has made to improve reporting, accountability, and access to justice for child sexual abuse survivors.

Nawal Filali, founder of the Aji Nt3awnou Association, told MWN that the petition demands maximum sentences, chemical castration, death penalty, and the removal of any mitigating circumstances for child sexual assaults. Rabat – The Moroccan association “Yallah Nt3awnou” has launched a national petition calling on the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, and Parliament to impose harsher penalties for rape and sexual assault against children, including the death penalty for repeat offenders.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs it into law, the state apparently would be the first with such a punishment. The GOP-controlled Legislature passed the bill giving judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest and molestation — against a child under 13.

Before the storm In 1898, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld circulated a petition to abolish [Paragraph 175 criminalizing homosexual relations in Germany]. He obtained the signatures of prominent writers, lawyers, politicians, and church dignitaries. The petition was discussed in the Reichstag and rejected. Only the Social Democratic Party, under the guidance of August Bebel, pleaded the reform. Most deputies were outraged and did not hide their abhorrence.

Religious school principal sentenced to death for raping 13 schoolgirls as new sexual violence legislation nears final vote An Indonesian court has sentenced a married religious school principal to death for raping 13 schoolgirls in a landmark case that draws an emphatic line under the controversial Sexual Violence Eradication Bill now nearing a final vote in the House of Representatives (DPR). Originally given a life term, Herry Wirawan was accused of sexually grooming and assaulting the teenagers, nine of whom were impregnated, between 2016 and 2021 at a pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, in Bandung, south of Jakarta. Under normal circumstances, the 36-year-old father of three would have only been liable for a maximum prison term of 15 years on each charge, although his status as a teacher allowed the district court to extend that to 20 years. But the Bandung High Court judges were acting on a 2016 amendment to the Child Protection Law which prescribes death for serial child rap...

Jakarta (ANTARA) - A House of Representatives' official lauded the prosecutor's decision to sentence to death Herry Wirawan for raping 13 female students in Bandung and expects the judiciary panel to grant the request. "If that is what the prosecutor demanded, we certainly hold it in the highest regard as possible. That means the prosecutor's demand is in line with the wishes of the people, who strongly condemn the incident, (that is) Herry's behavior towards the students," Chairman of Commission VIII of the House of Representatives, Yandri Susanto, noted in his statement received here on Wednesday. Susanto expects that maximum punishment handed out to Herry Wirawan would serve as a lesson for the public to prevent the recurrence of similar criminal acts in future. Susanto remarked that any deviant citizens or anyone who committed sexual crimes, would think twice or many times before doing inhumane acts like what Wirawan had done. He also expects that this cas...

A pathological woman killer who stole money from his victims as well as their lives. In its judgment in the case, the Khon Kaen Provincial Court certified that Mr Somkid Pumpuang was a remorseless and cruel killer who posed a grave threat to the public if ever released again from prison as it sentenced him, on March 17th, to death without granting mercy. A Thai court in March sentenced a serial killer who was originally sentenced to be executed in 2005 for the murder of 5 women in hotels across a similar number of provinces to death for the second time after the torture and rape of a 51-year-old hotel maid at her home in Khon Kaen on December 15th 2019, just seven months after he was granted parole and released from prison. News emerged over the weekend that a Thai serial killer, originally sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of five women but who managed to be released on parole in May 2019, was formally sentenced to death again by the Provincial Court in Khon Kaen on March 17th...

A sessions court in Karachi sentenced on Monday a man to death for raping a six-year-old child in 2015. According to the police, the suspect had raped the child in 2015 and was arrested a year back during a raid by the Saeedabad police.  He confessed to him crime. “The suspect’s crime is horrendous, scary and alarming,” the judge said, pointing out that it didn’t just violate the body of the six-year-old but cause her mental harm too. “The entire society is horrified and traumatised,” he added. The court has instructed the perpetrator to pay the child’s family a fine of Rs500,000. Last year, the federal cabinet approved the Anti-Rape (investigation and trial) Ordinance and Pakistan Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2020. Under the law, stern punishments for rapists have been introduced such as chemical castration and death penalty.  Other penalties include imprisonment for 10 years to life. Source: samaa.tv , Irfan Ul Haque, February 1, 2021 🚩 | Report an error, an omissi...

President Joko Widodo has signed a government regulation (PP) giving teeth to a controversial law on punishing convicted child molesters with chemical castration. The PP was signed on Dec. 7 but a copy of the document only circulated widely yesterday. Titled PP No. 70/2020 on chemical castration, attachment of electronic tracking devices, rehabilitation, and disclosure of the identities of culprits of sexual violence against children, the regulation most notably mandates the enforcement of heavy punishment on child sex offenders. In 2016, President Joko Widodo signed a Perppu (Presidential Regulation In Lieu of Law) introducing the death penalty and chemical castration for convicted child molesters , which was ratified into law that same year by the House of Representatives (DPR). Since then, two people have been sentenced to chemical castration, but their punishments have been delayed as the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) have refused to be the designated executioner on the grou...

Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday called for chemical castration of those involved in rape cases so that they could not indulge in such heinous crime in future. During an interview with a private news channel, the prime minister said he believed there should be chemical castration of rapists, which was in practice in many countries already, or they should be subjected to surgery. He explained that in case of murder, there was first degree, second and third degree in the same way, there should be grading in this matter. “And, those who are in 1st degree, they should be castrated and operated upon to disable them to repeat such crime in future,” the prime minister emphasised while speaking about the recent motorway rape incident. He conceded that this had shaken the nation, sending shockwaves. On becoming prime minister in initial days, he said he was told by the Islamabad IGP that sex crimes were rising against women as well as children. The prime minister called for a three-pronged st...

Lynching the rapists, death penalty and castration of the accused were some of the suggestions that Parliamentarians proposed on Monday as they expressed outrage over the 26-year-old veterinarian’s rape in Hyderabad.  Union Minister Rajnath Singh, meanwhile, said that the Centre is “ready for discussions to curb such crimes”. Leading the chorus of angry parliamentarians, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan Monday said rapists should be “brought out in public and lynched.” “I don’t know how many times I’ve stood and spoken after this kind of crime. I think it is time… whether Nirbhaya or Kathua or what happened in Telangana… I think the people now want the government to give a proper and definite answer,” she said in Rajya Sabha. She also added that the security personnel in charge of the area where the crime took place be held accountable and questions be asked. “I think these people need to be shamed in front of the entire country.” Four men have been accused of raping...

How Saratov reacted to Liza Kiselyova’s death and what deputies and human rights activists think about the abolition of the moratorium on the death penalty in Russia A number of deputies of the State Duma claimed the necessity to go back to the death penalty. The abolition of the moratorium on this type of punishment could protect children from maniacs, parliamentarians think, this is who they reacted to the 9-year-old girl’s murder in Saratov. However, not all their colleagues support them considering chemical castration enough for criminals. Human rights activists are urging not to forget about numerous innocent people who were sentenced because of miscarriage of justice. Realnoe Vremya found out how the wave of public outcry broke out. The suspect has 6 previous convictions 9-year-old Liza Kiselyova went to school on 9 October and didn’t go back. All Saratov Oblast looked for her for more than a day: not only police but also Liza Alert team joined the search. Hundreds...