NEWS ON HIGH DAILY BRUTALITY

 China executes more people than rest of the world combined China executes more people each year than the rest of the world combined,  with its state-sanctioned system cloaked in official secrecy, said a report released Tuesday by human rights monitor Amnesty International. Several thousand people were executed in 2016 by China alone, while at least 1,032 were executed in 23 other countries globally, said Amnesty.  The estimates contradict official state figures, which put the number of executions at 85 between 2014 and 2016. Amnesty’s investigation found news reports of at least 931 individuals executed between 2014 and 2016, while the official state database showed only 85 entries.  “There’s absolutely no way to know whether the number of executions is going up or down in China,” despite claims by the Chinese government to be killing fewer and killing carefully, said Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty’s regional director for East Asia. Bequelin called on the government to publish full figure

  China to review murder case 19 years after execution China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) has decided to review a rape-murder case 19 years after the convict was executed, as another man insists he is is guilty. Shandong Higher People's Court will review the case of Nie Shubin and Wang Shujin. Nie was executed in 1995 at the age of 21 for the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in Hebei's provincial capital, Shijiazhuang. Wang Shujin, 47, was apprehended by police in 2005 for three unconnected rape and murder cases, and confessed to the rape and murder of the same woman in Nie's case. Wang, sentenced to death in March 2007, claimed that he raped and murdered a woman in a cornfield on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang in 1994 and Nie was innocent.  Hebei Higher People's Court, which approved the death penalty on Nie in 1995, did not believe his claim in a retrial last year and Nie's verdict still stands. Wang's claims have raised public questions of judicial im

 A pair accused of murdering an Oklahoma woman reportedly had sex in the victim’s bed while she died nearby, according to authorities. Sarah Maguire, 29, was brutally beaten with a crowbar in her Tulsa home on Jan. 4, according to an affidavit from Tulsa police obtained by KNWA. Nicholas Johnson, 28, and Brinlee Denison, 25, are facing several criminal charges in the woman’s death, including first-degree murder and vehicle theft. Police responded to conduct a welfare check at Maguire’s home just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Responding officers discovered Maguire unresponsive in her living room. She had “obvious signs of trauma to her head and face” and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the affidavit. Investigators also spoke with “multiple witnesses” including Maguire family members who told police the victim’s vehicle and credit cards had been stolen, according to KNWA. As a result, detectives had immediate leads in the case. It didn’t take long to find the suspects as Johnso

  They were convicted of minor crimes as teens and now face beheading and 'crucifixion' in Saudi Arabia When Ali al-Nimr was 17, he says he was suddenly rammed by a Saudi Arabian government vehicle while riding his motorcycle through the eastern district of Qatif. What happened next would change his life forever. Al-Nimr was taken to a local police station, where he was beaten so badly he had to be transferred to a hospital, his lawyer said. Initially, al-Nimr was hit with relatively minor charges related to his participation in the widespread 2011 to 2012 Arab Spring demonstrations against Shia repression in the eastern part of the country, where most of the population resides. But when his uncle, the reformist Shia cleric and protest leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, was arrested, prosecutors ramped up their case. Instead of minor infractions related to the protests, al-Nimr now stood accused of joining a terrorist organization, throwing Molotov cocktails and arson. After being mov

  Rape and murder of girl in Aluva: parents demand capital punishment for accused just hours before sentencing READ MORE:  Brutality as Two Dalit sisters found hanging from tree in UP; family alleges rape, murder “He should be hanged. He had no right to live. If let outside, another child will have to face the same fate as my daughter. People like him will not change,” the father of the victim said Parents of the five-year-old migrant child, who was raped and murdered in Aluva early this year, have called for capital punishment for the accused. Their plea comes just hours before the Additional District Sessions Court for trying atrocities against women and children in Ernakulam in set to pronounce the sentence against the accused Asafak Alam, 29, of Bihar here on Tuesday. READ MORE:  Brutality as Two Dalit sisters found hanging from tree in UP; family alleges rape, murder The father of the victim, also from Bihar, said that he had full faith in the Kerala government. “He should be hang