Juvenile Offenders
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Another Iranian youth to be exectued on Wednesday, December 9th
Death Penalty News —
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Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) reports that Mohammad-Reza Haddadi, a youngster who was arrested in 2003, at age 15 was sentenced to execution and whose appeal to the Iranian regimes high tribunal was turned down, will be shortly executed in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz. Mohammad-Rezas mother reported that ...1 day ago -
E.U. Presidency statement on imminent executions of minors in Iran
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The Presidency of the European Union is deeply concerned by reports of the imminent executions of Mohammad-Reza Haddadi and Amir Amrollah, both convicted and sentenced to death for crimes committed as minors. The Presidency reiterates the previous communications by the European Union with the Government of the Islamic ...5 days ago -
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission: End executions for Sodomy Charges in Iran
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From the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission: Join the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), Iranian Queers Organization ( IRQO ) and COC Netherlands in calling on Iranian authorities to stop the numerous executions of minors and adults accused of sodomy. Also join us ...1 week ago -
Adolescents and Life Without Parole
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The United States Supreme Court is presently discussing whether it is or is not appropriate to condemn and adolescent who has committed a crime to life imprisonment without parole. A decision in 2005 has already abolished the death penalty for juveniles. In commenting on these matters, the psychologist Laurence ...3 weeks ago -
Why It Is So Important to Have Women On the Supreme Court
Mother Talkers —
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Well, there are a lot of reasons we should have more women on the U.S. Supreme Court, but I was recently struck by the difference in questioning by the two women and the seven male justices deciding whether it was okay to lock up juvenile offenders for life without parole -- even when they dont kill anybody. The ...3 weeks ago -
Weighing Life in Prison for Youths Who Didn’t Kill
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in Florida. On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear appeals from two ...4 weeks ago -
Iran: Three Men Await Execution for Alleged Homosexual Conduct When Minors
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"Killing people for what they did as minors is wrong and repellent, and killing them for alleged homosexual conduct is just as wrong and repellent. The Iranian government has flouted its most basic human rights obligations in allowing these cruel death sentences," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa ...4 weeks ago -
It Is Choas! Lib Versus Lib In San Francisco!
American Conservative Daily —
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Life is rough out there on the left. And Heaven help you if you are not as far to the left as those up the food chain from you. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, a man no one would ever accuse of being reasonable on a consistent basis and about as far to the left as many people thought the city would ever see, is ...6 weeks ago -
Juveniles and the Supreme Court
The Gavel —
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Cases involving criminal charges against juveniles have been around for a long time. Last weeks edition of Newsweek Magazine contained an article penned by a former juvenile offender. Please take a look at it here . The author, Raphael Johnson, points to two current cases coming before the supreme court ...6 weeks ago
