Tag: execution
Posted on Fri Jan 16, 2015 at 01:44:41 PM EST
Tags: Boycott Bali, Indonesia, execution (all tags)
Indonesia will kick off its execution binge of 20 drug traffickers with the first six this weekend. Five are from foreign countries.
Attorney General HM Prasetyo confirmed on Thursday that five people — four men and a woman — would face the firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, Central Java, while one woman would face the firing squad in Boyolali, Central Java.
“We have prepared everything; the firing squad, clergymen and doctors. The executions will be done simultaneously, not one by one,” he said.
The Netherlands, Brazil and the European Union have asked Indonesia to call off the killings. It says it won't. Amnesty International issued this protest. [More...]
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Posted on Fri May 02, 2014 at 08:55:00 AM EST
Tags: lethal injection, execution (all tags)
Robert Patton, Director of Oklahoma's Department of Corrections, has written a letter (available here) to the Governor with a timeline of events in the botched execution of Robert Lockett earlier this week.
First, the executioners spent 51 minutes trying to find a suitable vein in Lockett's arm. When they couldn't, they inserted an IV tap into his groin. [More...]
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Posted on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 09:54:51 AM EST
Tags: death penalty, execution, ricky ray rector, arkansas, bill clinton, politics, election, crime, democrats, michael dukakis, debates, bernard shaw, appalling moments in public discourse (all tags)
Four presidential cycles ago today, Hillary's husband dropped a syringe plunger in the old Democratic party.
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Posted on Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 01:05:37 PM EST
Tags: death penalty, execution, utah, joe hill, labor, activism, iww (all tags)
Even before his execution, the Swedish immigrant was widely thought to have been railroaded for his IWW affiliation.
Though state authorities had little use for the worldwide clemency bid whose backers included U.S. President Woodrow Wilson -- powerless to intervene officially, since the execution was a state matter -- Hill walked spryly into his martyrdom.
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