Death Penalty News

Click here to Google translate the following article into your own language Après le scrutin dimanche, elle avait enjoint le régime à "céder le pouvoir", contestant les résultats officiels donnant Alexandre Loukachenko vainqueur avec 80,08% des voix et ne lui en accordant que 10%. L'opposante Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa , rivale à la présidentielle de l'autoritaire président biélorusse, a fui en Lituanie mardi 11 août, après une deuxième nuit de protestations contre le pouvoir violemment réprimées et ayant fait un mort. Le ministre lituanien des Affaires étrangères, Linas Linkevicius, a indiqué qu'elle était "en sécurité" dans son pays, voisin de la Biélorussie. Lundi soir, son équipe avait indiqué que l'opposante était injoignable et introuvable depuis son départ de la Commission électorale, où elle avait été retenue durant des heures, alors qu'elle était venue déposer une plainte pour fraude électorale. Elle conteste les résultat...

President Trump revived his praise of foreign nations that use the death penalty to crack down on drug trafficking Friday, suggesting in a speech on border security it’s a better way to deal with addiction than study groups who “eat lunch” and “waste a lot of time.” Mr. Trump, who recently signed a criminal justice reform bill to help nonviolent offenders, struck a get-tough pose in the White House Rose Garden, saying Chinese President Xi Jinping told him they don’t have a drug problem because they threaten dealers with the ultimate penalty. “What do we do? We set up blue-ribbon committees,” said Mr. Trump, whose own administration established a commission on opioid addiction during the first year of his presidency. Mr. Trump is treating opioid addiction, which killed 47,600 people in 2017, as a public health emergency. Most of his efforts have focused on expanding treatment and overdose-reversing drugs, though he’s flirted with the idea of imposing the death penalty on ...

Nie Shubin was killed by firing squad in 1995 at the age of 20 after being found guilty of killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province. A Chinese man has had his conviction for rape and murder overturned, 21 years after he was executed. Nie Shubin was killed by firing squad in 1995 at the age of 20 after being found guilty of killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province. The supreme court ruled that the facts used in Mr Nie's trial were "unclear and the evidence insufficient". Mr Nie's family, who have been campaigning for two decades to clear his name, have thanked his supporters. Eleven years ago another man also said he had carried out the crime but the claim was rejected. Chinese courts have a conviction rate of more than 99%. The official number of executions are a state secret, but is believed to be in the thousands every year. Rights groups allege that confessions used in court are forced or extracted under tortur...