http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hanging/ en-us Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118732/posts Authorities at the University of Kentucky are trying to find out who hung an effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on campus. College spokesman Carl Nathe said it was found hanging from a tree Wednesday morning. Police immediately took it down. School President Lee Todd says that he plans to personally apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the university and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode." It's the second time an effigy has been found on a college campus recently. Earlier this week, George Fox University in Oregon said it was... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118732/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116804/posts A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing giggles from some passers-by and gasps of outrage from others. The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit. Another mannequin dressed as John McCain emerges from a flaming chimney. Chad Michael Morisette, who lives in the house, told CBS 2 News that drivers and bus passengers have been stopping to snap pictures of the macabre scene. Morisette says the effigy would be out of bounds at any other... CBS2 TV Station (Los Angeles) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116804/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:55:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051942/posts Iran to hang 30 convicts on Sunday TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Thirty people convicted of drug and other criminal charges will be hanged on Sunday, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday. The 30 had their cases tried by the highest judicial authorities and were found guilty of the charges brought against them, Iran's judiciary said in a statement. The verdicts are final, and the sentences will be carried out Sunday, according to Fars. According to Amnesty International, Iran executed 317 people last year, second only to China's 470. The U.S. executed 42 people in 2007, according to Amnesty International.... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051942/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:37:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045567/posts The executions took place in the north-eastern city of Sabzeva, Reuters news agency reported. It was not revealed what crimes those executed had been accused of, nor how they were killed or when, but the radio report said they were "wicked people". On Saturday four others, convicted of murder, were publicly hanged in the southern province of Bushehr, an Iranian newspaper reported. Murder, rape, adultery, drug trafficking, armed robbery and apostasy - the abandoning of religious faith - all carry the death penalty under Iranian Sharia law. In January, Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi ordered that all public executions... bbc news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045567/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:18:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043622/posts PARIS (AFP) - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is "hanging by its last thread" to Charcot Island, one of the plate's key anchors to the Antarctic peninsula, ESA said in a press release. "Since the connection to the island... helps stabilise the ice shelf, it is likely the breakup of the bridge will put the remainder of the ice shelf... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043622/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032132/posts TOKYO (AFP) — Japan on Tuesday executed three people including notorious serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, a fetishist convicted of murdering four little girls and eating some of their bodies, officials said. Miyazaki, 45, was nicknamed the "killer nerd" for his obsession with sexual cartoons and pornography. But defence lawyers contended he was mentally ill and could not be held fully responsible for his actions. Japan is the only major industrialised nation other than the United States to apply the death penalty and has been stepping up the pace of executions, which enjoy wide public support. "We are carrying out executions... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032132/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:43:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032160/posts Japan hangs 3 convicted murderers By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press writer 9 minutes ago A serial killer who mutilated the bodies of four young girls and reportedly drank the blood of one of his victims was among three convicted murderers executed in Japan on Tuesday for crimes an official called indescribably cruel. Tsutomu Miyazaki, 45, whose rash of grisly killings in the late 1980s triggered calls for tighter restrictions on violent pornographic videos, was hanged at a detention center in Tokyo, Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama said. Miyazaki burned the body of one 4-year-old and left her bones on her parents'... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032160/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:29:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014931/posts TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has hanged five men convicted of raping and murdering a young woman, a state-owned newspaper reported Monday. The men were convicted of kidnapping the woman, raping her and then dousing her with gasoline and burning her alive. The IRAN newspaper reported Monday that the crime was apparently in revenge for the woman's failure to marry one of the men. Her family opposed the union. The convicts, all aged 19 to 24, were executed Sunday in Qom prison some 84 miles south of Tehran. FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014931/posts#comment Mon, 12 May 2008 20:41:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999877/posts Four death row prisoners have been executed in Japan, the authorities have announced. The four inmates, aged between 41 and 64, were hanged at separate locations in Japan, the justice ministry said. Japan, one of the few industrialised countries to retain the death penalty, appears to be stepping up the pace of prisoner executions. Three capital sentences were carried out in February, as well as nine executions in 2007. Human rights groups are critical of the secrecy surrounding executions in Japan. Relatives are told only after the hangings have taken place and, until December 2007, the names of those executed... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999877/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:29:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978624/posts Iraq approves 'Chemical Ali' hanging   Iraq’s presidency council has cleared the way for the long-delayed execution of Saddam Hussein’s cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as “Chemical Ali,” to be carried out…The execution of Majeed, once one of the most feared men in Iraq, and two others for the genocidal Anfal campaign against Iraq’s Kurds in the 1980s has been delayed for months by a legal wrangle over who has the authority to green light the hangings… No date has been set for the execution to be carried out, they said.   The council source said no decision had been made regarding... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978624/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 03:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972598/posts TEHRAN — Iran on Sunday executed two men — one accused of murder and the other of raping children — in a prison in the northeastern province of Khorasan, the ISNA news agency reported. The men were not identified, but the news agency said that one of the men had raped several girls under the age of 10 and that the other man had committed murder. ... THE NEW YORK TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972598/posts#comment Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:59:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972294/posts A 10-year-old boy has hanged himself within days of talking to his mother about the recent spate of internet-related suicides in Bridgend. Cameron McWilliams had few friends and spent most of his spare time reading or playing on either an Xbox or a laptop computer. He had also told his mother, Kelly, that he was interested in wearing girls’ clothes and wanted one day to have a sex change. Mrs McWilliams, of Intake, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, found him with a belt around his neck on Monday. She told an inquest in the town that her son had been teased after... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972294/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962385/posts Five Hanged in Evin January 30, 2008 AFP Tehran -- Iran hanged five convicted murderers in Tehran's Evin prison on Wednesday, the Fars news agency reported, as curbs were imposed on executions being carried out in public. A man identified only by his first name of Faraz was hanged for killing his girlfriend Andia in February 2004. "This morning Faraz begged Andia's father to forgive him, but the father reminded him of how he had murdered his daughter and refused to pardon him," Fars said in the report. Ramezan, 29, was executed for stabbing his brother's wife to death after... Khaleej Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962385/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:33:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962379/posts Iran's Chief Judge Orders an End to Executions in Public January 30, 2008 The Associated Press Santa Barbara News-Press TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's chief judge has ordered that executions will no longer take place in public, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a moderate conservative cleric, also banned publishing pictures and broadcasting video footage of executions, the report said. Executions can now only be carried out in public after special approval by the head of the judiciary, the report said. Since the start of this year, Iran has hanged more than 20 people convicted of... AP/Santa Barbara News-Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962379/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:23:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947460/posts Iran hangs 13 on single day: reports Wed Jan 2, 12:21 PM ET Iran hanged 13 convicted criminals on Wednesday, including the mother of two young children who had been found guilty of murdering her husband after discovering he was having an affair, reports said. Raheleh Zamani, who reportedly chopped her husband's body into pieces, was hanged alongside seven men convicted of murder, in a mass execution at Tehran's Evin prison, the Iranian Student Correspondents' Association (ISCA) reported. Three drug traffickers were also hanged on Wednesday in public in a square in the central city of Qom and another two... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947460/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 01:45:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903811/posts Teenager Charged with Hanging 6-Year-Old Neighbor GirlLast Update: 1:04 pm CORSICANA, Texas (AP) -- A neighbor of a 6-year-old girl found hanged in her family's garage has been charged in the sexual assault and death of the first-grader, police said Friday. Shaun Earl Arender, 19, is charged with capital murder in the death of Hanna Mack, whose body was found hanging from the garage rafters before sunrise Sept. 10 by her mother. Arender lived less than a mile from the Mack's rural home about 65 miles south of Dallas, Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said. It wasn't immediately... WOAI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903811/posts#comment Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895828/posts (CBS 11 News) NAVARRO COUNTY The Navarro County Sheriff’s Department arrested Kevin Anders for possession of child pornography. Anders is the live-in boyfriend of Dana Mack. Dana's youngest daughter, Hannah, was found dead in the family's garage Monday. Wednesday, police confirmed the girl was sexually assaulted before she was hanged. Police originally listed Anders as a person of interest in the death of the 6-year-old girl. Anders had been questioned by police early Wednesday, but was not arrested until sometime around 9 p.m. cbs11 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895828/posts#comment Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893100/posts Baghdad, Sept 7, (VOI) – Three of the six defendants in the Anfal case will be executed by hanging on Saturday, a Saudi newspaper quoted the lawyer of former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz as saying. "The Iraqi Criminal Court notified Ali Hassan al-Majid, alias Chemical Ali, former defense minister Sultan Hashim and former chief of staff Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti that they will be executed tomorrow," lawyer Badie Aref Ezzat told Saudi newspaper al-Watan, published on Friday. The lawyer said he was told by the three convicts that they only wanted to meet their families before the executions. Ezzat said... Baghdad-Voices of Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893100/posts#comment Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855533/posts BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein's cousin and two other former regime officials were convicted Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang for the brutal crackdown that killed up to 180,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas two decades ago. Two other defendants were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 1987-1988 crackdown, known as "Operation Anfal." A sixth defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence. Death sentences are automatically appealed. The most notorious defendant was Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for ordering the use of mustard gas and nerve agents... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855533/posts#comment Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:59:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890861/posts Three members of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein -- including the man known as "Chemical Ali" -- will be executed within 30 days, senior appellate Judge Munir Haddad said Tuesday. The appellate chamber upheld their sentences of death by hanging, which were imposed in June. The three defendants are Hussein's first cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, nicknamed "Chemical Ali;" Sultan Hashem Ahmed, military commander of the Anfal campaign; and Hussein Rashid Mohammed, deputy general commander of the Iraqi armed force, assistant chief of staff for military operations, and former Republican Guard commander. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890861/posts#comment Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:45:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886716/posts Islamic Republic of Fear http://www.economist.com/world/africa/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9687617 Iran Islamic Republic of Fear Aug 23rd 2007 From The Economist print edition Restoring the revolution, taking away civil liberties AP Iran makes a grotesque spectacle of itself Get article backgroundTHE head of Iran's judiciary is a confident man. Despite foreign attempts at slander, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi recently declared, his country has presented a fine image to the world of Islamic law at work. If news were limited to such mercies as the recent release, on bail, of Haleh Esfandiari, a 67-year-old Iranian-American academic, after six months in jail on charges of espionage, or... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886716/posts#comment Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886012/posts Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can't hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for Iran's long-suffering population which now finds itself on the receiving end of one of the most brutal purges witnessed since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The most visible manifestation of the new oppression sweeping Iran has been the wave of public executions and floggings carried out in Teheran and provincial capitals over recent weeks in a blatant attempt by the regime to intimidate political opponents. The official government line is that the punishments are part of... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886012/posts#comment Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:46:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883900/posts Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal. Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while sending out uncompromising signals to the West. Opposition sources say at least three of the dead were political activists, contradicting government insistence that it is targeting 'thugs' and dangerous criminals. The executions have coincided with a crackdown on student activists and academics accused of trying to foment a 'soft revolution' with US support. The... Sunday Observer/Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883900/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:45:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879613/posts In Death, a Martyr's Smile Foretells Victory August 10, 2007 The Denver Post Opinion The world has seen nothing like it. When Majid Kavosifar was hanged in public in Tehran for killing criminal judge Hassan Moghadas, no one expected to see the expression they saw on his face the day of his execution. As Kavosifar was jostled through the crowd by the regime's demonic henchmen in ski masks - and even as he was hoisted onto the platform that he was to be hanged from - he wore a triumphant, almost joyful smile on his face. If there were ever... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879613/posts#comment Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875915/posts Iran's Rulers Revel in Rough Justice Fear is Key to Clerical Regime August 03, 2007 Scotsman Michael Theodoulou Thousands of Iranians, including children, watched in fascination and horror yesterday as two men convicted of murdering a hardline judge were hanged in a Tehran street in defiance of Western criticism of Iran's human rights record. Dozens of people have been executed in recent weeks for rape, drug trafficking, murder and other offences but public executions are relatively rare and these were the first in the capital for five years. Majid Kavousifar and his nephew Hossein Kavousifar were jostled in handcuffs to... The Scotsman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875915/posts#comment Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:38:35 GMT