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  2. Schapelle Corby - Wikipedia

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    A number of Indonesian anti-drug campaign activists and politicians have criticised what they say is a light sentence and the subsequent five-year reduction in her sentence. Ahmad Yani, a member of the minority Islamic United Development Party said that "Corby deserves the death penalty" and "We lose 50 children to drugs every day."

  3. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.

  4. List of prisoners with whole life orders - Wikipedia

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    Convicted of the execution-style murder of Neville Corby (aged 42) with a shotgun and the simultaneous attempted murder of Corby's partner. Had been previously convicted of murder in 1971 and served 26 years. [69] Died from heart failure and pneumonia on 4 September 2020 following a fall in HMP Wakefield. Anthony John Hardy: 2010 2020

  5. Corby - Wikipedia

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    Corby is a town and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, 23 miles (37 km) north-east of Northampton. In 2021 it had a ...

  6. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [ 209 ] [ 210 ] [ 211 ] or has a brutalization effect, [ 212 ] [ 213 ] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence ...

  7. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The death penalty was mandatory (although it was frequently commuted by the government) until the Judgement of Death Act 1823 gave judges the official power to commute the death penalty except for treason and murder. The Punishment of Death, etc. Act 1832 reduced the number of capital crimes by two-thirds.

  8. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death. Sometimes known as "death by a thousand cuts". Pendulum. [8] A machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time (of disputed historicity). Starvation/Dehydration ...

  9. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty for murder, aggravated murder, drug smuggling, terrorism, arms trafficking, armed robbery resulting in death, certain military offenses (e.g. cowardice, assisting the enemy, abetting a successful mutiny), kidnapping, rape, gang rape, perjury in a capital case leading execution of an innocent person, hijacking, sabotage of the ...