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Iraqi President Jalal Talibani, a Kurd who's opposed to the death penalty, has refused to sign the execution orders, amid calls from Sunnis to spare Hashim's life.
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Ahmadullah favours the penalty, though he talks of the harrowing execution of three brothers convicted of murder, one of whom pleaded his innocence convincingly, Ahmadullah says to his anguished last breath.
ECONOMIST: A dying family business
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Many Kashmiris believe he is innocent, and are incensed by the (very rare) imposition of the death penalty and by the date fixed for its execution: the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
ECONOMIST: India and Pakistan
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Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal Analyst, Slate): That's right, Alex, and 37 of the 38 states that currently have the death penalty, this is their preferred method of execution, but prisoners are complaining that it doesn't work, that it's causing a tremendous amount of pain, more so than was present in death sentences using the electric chair or gas.
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In fact, the penalty for many crimes is imprisonment in labor camps or execution.
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If trial is swiftly followed by execution, they reckon, Americans will turn against the death penalty.
ECONOMIST: Execution reconsidered
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The contest stated to open up as the penalty count dropped and both sides began to carve out chances only for poor execution to let them down.
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Papua New Guinea has not carried out an execution since 1954, despite parliament's decision to reintroduce the death penalty for murder in 1991.
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