Capital Punishment

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• NYT > World: China Executes Briton Despite Appeals

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 473
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . After Akmal Shaikh’s drug smuggling conviction, British officials pressed China to consider his psychiatric history.
  8 hours ago

• Akmal Shaikhs final hours

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Convicted drug smuggler was first European to be executed in China in more than half a century Correctly applied, the lethal concoction injected into the veins of Akmal Shaikh, the convicted drug smuggler from Kentish Town, north London, would have taken less than a minute to stop his heart and seal his unfortunate ...
  10 hours ago

• China executes Brit who might have been mentally ill

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 456
  Just a followup from yesterdays story: China has executed Akmal Shaikh, a British man who was convicted of smuggling heroin into the country. This is the first time in 50 years that China has executed a European citizen. The British...
  14 hours ago

• China has made a mockery of justice | Clive Stafford Smith

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The case made by China in the execution of Akmal Shaikh undermines its claim to have a rational drugs policy In the wake of Akmal Shaikhs horrific execution , it is perhaps worth discussing the position taken by the Chinese in more depth. Cast aside for one moment the unassailable case that we made for his mental ...
  19 hours ago

• Chinas execution of Akmal Shaikh enrages UK leaders

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Gordon Brown, ministers and the opposition condemn regimes treatment of Briton said to have been mentally ill Gordon Brown and other senior British politicians have angrily condemned China for executing a British man said to have had mental problems. Akmal Shaikh, 53, was killed early this morning by lethal injection ...
  20 hours ago

• China Executes Briton Despite Appeals for Mercy

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling after rejecting appeals from relatives who said he was mentally unstable.
  20 hours ago

• China Executes Briton Despite Appeals for Mercy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling after rejecting appeals from relatives who said he was mentally unstable.
  21 hours ago

• Akmal Skaikh

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  Akmal Skaikh was killed this morning by the Chinese government. He was a convicted drug smuggler and China operates a system of capital punishment that decrees that such a crime should be punished by death. His case has been raised partly due to circumstances which have led to his execution. Skaikh’s family have ...
  22 hours ago

• A Briton Is Executed in China, Britain Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling after rejecting appeals from relatives who said he was mentally unstable.
  23 hours ago

• NYT > World: A Briton Is Executed in China, Britain Says

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 473
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling after rejecting appeals from relatives who said he was mentally unstable.
  1 day ago

• Fury as China executes drug smuggler

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Fierce condemnation as last-ditch attempt to prevent death of Akmal Shaikh, 53, fails China was this morning condemned for its human rights record after a British man who, his supporters say, had mental health problems, was executed for smuggling drugs. Akmal Shaikh, 53, was shot dead by a firing squad at 10.30am ...
  1 day ago

• Fury at China over refusal to pardon Briton

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Human rights record condemned as UK makes last-ditch clemency appeal China faces fierce condemnation over its human rights record after refusing to grant a reprieve from the death penalty for a British man who his supporters say has mental health problems. The Foreign Office minister Ivan Lewis tonight made a ...
  1 day ago

• Does this man deserve to be executed?

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 456
  Chinese authorities are preparing to execute a British national named Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, but his family says Shaikh is a homeless man with mental illness who was tricked into smuggling drugs. (They say he was told hed become...
  1 day ago

• China must spare Akmal Shaikh or face serious consequences

  
  News UK — Authority: 133
  In a little under eight hours of writing this, at 2.30 in the morning of our fifth day of Christmas,the People’s Republic of China will execute the British subject, Akmal Shaikh, unless a last plea for clemency succeeds.Mr Shaikh is so obviously mentally ill, so clearly had no grasp of what he was doing when [...]
  1 day ago

• The high cost of state-sponsored killing

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 140
  The high cost of state-sponsored killing. RALEIGH (AP) — A Duke University professor says North Carolina could save $11 million a year if it stopped trying to execute killers. Read more
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• Family visit death row Briton in China

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Daughter of Akmal Shaikh, who is due to be executed tomorrow in north-west China, says time is running out for her father The family of a British man condemned to die in China tomorrow morning have visited him and made a last-minute appeal for mercy. Two cousins of Akmal Shaikh, 53, from Kentish Town in north ...
  1 day ago

• Recent history of Britons executed abroad

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The last Briton to be executed abroad was Jackie Elliott, 42, who died by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, in February 2003 having been convicted of rape and murder in 1986. He was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where his father was a serviceman at a nearby US airbase. Tracy Housel, 43, a joint UK-US citizen, was ...
  2 days ago

• China may give Briton days notice of execution, say campaigners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Two cousins of Londoner Akmal Shaikh due to arrive in Urumqi to make final plea for clemency A British man condemned to die in China on Tuesday morning may not be told the time of his execution until 24 hours beforehand, campaigners claimed today. Two cousins of Akmal Shaikh were due to arrive in Urumqi, north-west ...
  2 days ago

• Feast Day of St. Stephen

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 128
  The day after Christmas — or the second day of the twelve days of Christmas , in a more traditional coinage — is the feast of St. Stephen .* St. Stephen is well-known as the “protomartyr”, the first Christian to die for his faith. (Jesus doesn’t count.) There’s a St. Stephen’s Gate in Jerusalem ...
  3 days ago

• 1683: Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, for the Battle of Vienna

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 128
  On this date in 1683, the commander who just months before had brought the Turkish army to the gates of Vienna was executed in Belgrade for losing one of the pivotal battles in European history. The Battle of Vienna saw the Ottoman Empire’s high tide and its last great bid to capture control of the strategic ...
  4 days ago

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