Death Penalty News

A trio of British drug mules who tried to smuggle £300,000 (US$405,000, €345,000) worth of cocaine into Bali are reportedly set to be deported back to the UK after missing out on the death penalty. Lisa Stocker, 39, a mother-of-three, was arrested with her partner Jonathan Collyer, 39, back in February. She was stopped after a routine X-ray of their luggage detected 17 packets of the dessert Angel Delight that had been stuffed with nearly a kilogram of cocaine. 

Spanish law enforcement agencies have informed MHA that they are prosecuting Ong in Spain. Singapore has no jurisdiction over the alleged murder of Audrey Fang committed by Mitchell Ong in Spain, said the Ministry of Home Affairs. In response to Mothership 's queries, MHA said that if Ong was deported to Singapore, he would not be investigated or prosecuted for the alleged murder. This information has been communicated to the Spanish counterparts, and Spanish law enforcement agencies have also informed MHA that they are prosecuting Ong in Spain.

Benny Kee Soon Chuan was allegedly living a life of luxury in Thailand when local authorities arrested him and handed him over to Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau. SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man wanted for alleged links to two cases of drug trafficking was handed a capital charge on Friday (Sep 20), after being deported to Singapore from Thailand. Benny Kee Soon Chuan, 31, is accused of conspiring with Low En Quan Justin to traffic in methamphetamine sometime in early December 2020, when Kee was not in Singapore.

While a green wave sweeps the Western world, there are still some countries that have harsh penalties for cannabis possession. From prison time to beheadings, these are some of the countries you don't want to get caught with weed. In recent years, the world has seen a general loosening of cannabis laws, concerning both medicinal and recreational use of the drug. Today, over 60 countries have legalised cannabis for medicinal purposes while, earlier this year, Germany finally introduced legislation to legalise recreational cannabis, becoming just the third country in the world to do so.

Some Indonesians have voiced support for the drug traffickers to be executed. As of October last year, Indonesia had 509 death row inmates A raid on a suspected drug lab in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, allegedly operated by Russian and Ukrainian nationals, has reignited discussion about banning “problematic” tourists and executing criminals for serious drug crimes.

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is as complicit in crimes of aggression against Ukraine as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is, the European Parliament asserted in a resolution adopted on Sept. 13. The resolution, based on a report by MEP Petras Austrevičius from Lithuania, was adopted during a plenary session in Strasbourg by an overwhelming majority of votes. “The illegitimate Lukashenka regime is actively supporting and has become fully complicit in Russia’s unjustified war of aggression and war crimes against Ukraine,” the document reads. “The special international tribunal on the crime of aggression perpetrated by Russia against Ukraine must have jurisdiction to investigate not only Putin and the Russian political and military leadership, but also the Belarusian leadership.”

South Africa must do the "right thing" and abide by international law if Russian President Vladimir Putin personally attends the BRICS summit in Johannesburg next month. Source : Karim Khan, International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor, in an interview with CNN Quote : "South Africa has felt a crime against humanity for decades, the crime of apartheid, I don't think they need lessons from me. They are voluntarily a state party to the ICC, they know what the law is, and I think they would do the right thing. And we will assess what actually happens at the BRICS summit and respond accordingly."

Pontianak, West Kalimantan (ANTARA) - Indonesian Consul General in Kuching Yonny Tri Prayitno confirmed the consulate offered legal and repatriation assistance to Indonesian Ical Samerin, 36, whose death penalty verdict was overturned in the Court of Appeal in Miri, Sarawak. "He was arrested by the Miri Police on May 2, 2017, on charge of murder of an Indonesian (claimed to be his wife), an offence carrying a maximum charge of death penalty in the country," Consul Prayitno noted in his written statement received by ANTARA in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Wednesday. Prayitno remarked that Samerin was earlier sentenced to death by hanging during a trial in the High Court in Miri on May 20, 2020. The Consulate General then appealed against the verdict in the Court of Appeal, with the hearing held on August 23, 2021. "The Consulate General provides legal assistance to Samerin by appointing a lawyer for him. Through the lawyer's assistance and defence for him, the Appeal Co...

Sirhan, 77, convicted of killing Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968. Decision subject to further review and governor’s final approval The man who killed Robert F Kennedy was granted parole on Friday after two of the former attorney general, senator and presidential hopeful’s sons spoke in favor of release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars. The decision was a major victory for Sirhan Sirhan, 77, though it did not assure his release. The ruling by the two-person panel at Sirhan’s 16th parole hearing will be reviewed over 90 days by the California parole board. Then it will be sent to the governor, who will have 30 days to decide whether to grant it, reverse it or modify it. Douglas Kennedy, a toddler when his father was killed in 1968, said he was moved to tears by Sirhan’s remorse and said he should be released if he’s not a threat to others. “I’m overwhelmed just by being able to view Mr Sirhan face-to-face,” he said. “I think I’ve lived my life both in fear o...

China has repatriated about 50 North Korean escapees, including air force pilots and others who could face severe punishment including the death penalty, sources on the Chinese side of the border told RFA. The first such repatriations since Beijing and Pyongyang closed their borders in January 2020 at the start of the pandemic took place on July 14 at the northwestern border city of Sinuiju, across the Yalu River border from China’s Dandong, a source in the city told RFA. Most North Korean escapees have a goal of reaching South Korea, but arrivals in the South are at an all-time low due to the pandemic. Not only is it difficult for North Koreans to cross over into China, once there, making their way to a third country has also gotten more difficult. The inability to find a way out of China has resulted in effectively stranding the North Korean escapees in a country that routinely repatriates them to North Korea. The group of escapees sent back to North Korea last week had been awaiting...

The South Korean government handed them over to the North Korean authorities without taking legal action of any kind. 2 North Koreans who crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) into South Korea in November of 2019 have reportedly appeared in educational materials published by North Korea’s Ministry of State Security.  The 2 men were forcibly returned to the North by the South Korean government for being “heinous criminals.” On May 14, a Daily NK source in North Korea described recently-published ideological education materials targeted at North Korean laborers overseas.  The materials listed instances where North Korean defectors attempted to escape and then were forcibly repatriated.  One of the examples listed in the materials was that of 2 octopus fishermen who took a wooden boat into South Korean waters, only to be repatriated by the South Korean government to the North. A Ministry of State Security (MSS) “education officer” explained the two fishermen’s ordeal by sayi...

The Sharjah Court of Appeal has reduced a sentence of death issued against a 34-year-old Asian accused of killing his roommate to seven years in prison, Khaleej Times reported on 14 April 2021. The accused was also found guilty of attempting to murder the nephew of the victim as well as of consuming alcohol.  The court further ordered that he be deported after the completion of his term. The ruling came after the victim's family pardoned the accused after he agreed to pay Dh200,000 (US$54,500) as legal blood money to the deceased's heirs. According to the police investigation, the accused used a kitchen knife to kill the victim while he was asleep in his bed. He also assaulted the nephew of the victim violently, causing serious injuries that necessitated his transfer to the hospital for treatment. The Public Prosecution referred the accused to trial and charged him with premeditated murder for killing the victim and attempting to kill another person by assaulting him with a kni...

Deported after conviction from the UK, he was also convicted of trading in obscene material A Rawalpindi trial court on Wednesday sentenced ‘habitual’ paedophile Sohail Ayaz to death on 3 counts apart from awarding him 3 sentences of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping young boys and for recording and disseminating the heinous acts. Ayaz has previously been convicted of similar crimes in the UK and Italy before being deported to Pakistan. The Additional District and Sessions Judge Jehangir Ali Gondal on Wednesday issued a written verdict wherein the court found Ayaz and his accomplice Khurram Tahir guilty of kidnapping 3 children. The court handed 3 sentences of the death penalty to Chartered Accountant Ayaz under section 367-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - for deceitfully taking the victims to his house, confining them, administering them with intoxicants such as ice (crystal methamphetamine) and then raping them. “He be hanged by neck till his death.” read the verdict...

Convicted of his involvement in the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca, Said Mansour was sentenced on Monday to death.  Living in Denmark since 1984, the 59-year-old man was stripped of his Danish nationality and then extradited to Morocco, where he was tried. Spanish news agency EFE recalls that the case of Mansour is unprecedented, especially since he is the first person in Denmark to be stripped of his nationality, in 2016.  Indeed, a Danish court found him guilty of spreading terrorist propaganda in the country where he had five children with his Danish wife. Mansour was extradited to Morocco in January 2019.  On May 16, 2003, the Casablanca bombings left 33 deaths. Denmark Deports Said Mansour, Stripped of Citizenship, to Morocco Jan 5, 2019, Rabat – Denmark has deported Said Mansour, convicted of incitement to terrorism and formerly a dual Moroccan-Danish citizen, to Morocco. According to Danish media, Mansour arrived in Casablanca yesterday night, aboard Roya...

Iranian citizen Maryam Shariatmadari, who went to Turkey on a tourist visa after receiving a prison sentence in Iran for protesting, was detained by Turkish authorities on September 7 because her visa expired and now faces deportation, according to Turkish and international media. Shariatmadari was released from detention the next morning and was told she had 30 days to leave the country. She said on her social media account that she was afraid of being deported and called on Turkish authorities to allow her to remain in Turkey. The National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), an activist group based in the US state of Maryland, said in a tweet that if deported, Shariatmadari could face torture and execution in Iran. Shariatmadari was arrested by Iranian authorities in 2018 for removing her hijab in public places and has been described as one of the leading anti-hijab activists Iran, where women are required to cover their hair with a scarf by law. Last year Iranian nationals Saeed ...

While many are dying from COVID-19, the Iranian regime is still trying to execute those arrested in the November protests. But people are speaking up. 3 young men arrested during the November 2019 protests were to be executed in Iran. However, millions of Iranians took an issue with this on social networks, declaring their rejection of the execution. They are, Amirhossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohammad Rajabi. The "No to execution" campaign quickly went viral on Iranian and Farsi-language social networks. For more than three days, Iranians on social media, responded to the news that the judiciary has confirmed the death penalty for these young men. The campaign had an impact and the execution of the 3 men was temporarily suspended. This is significant because execution and state murder are amongst the most important strategies of the Iranian state to maintain the system. In Iran, any person and group that questions the state and its order socially, reli...