Death Sentences
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| Originally published | 2012 |
| Authors | Chiaki Kawamata |
| Genres | Science Fiction |
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| ID | 2439656 |
About Death Sentences
Japan, 1980s: A special police squad is tracking down one of the “afflicted” to recover the “stuff. ” Although the operation seems like a drug bust, the “stuff” is actually some kind of text. . . .
Iran executes two men convicted of blasphemy
... The Supreme Court rejected their appeals against the verdicts and upheld their Death Sentences later that year, Mizan said, adding that both men had " clearly confessed to their crimes"...
Islamic State: Hundreds of women on hunger strike at Iraqi prison
... Amnesty International, however, has reported that long prison terms and Death Sentences have been imposed in IS-linked cases " following convictions based primarily on torture-tainted confessions "...
Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103
... Of the 22 men on trial, all were convicted, with 13 of them receiving Death Sentences and four ultimately being executed...
Secretive Saudi executions leave families in the dark
... " In particular, we are concerned by the increase in the number of Death Sentences issued and upheld, including against child offenders, and for offences that do not meet the most serious crimes threshold of international law, such as drug-related offences, " it said...
Taraneh Alidoosti: Iran releases top actress held for supporting protests
... Meanwhile, Iran s Supreme Court upheld Death Sentences handed to two men who were convicted of " corruption on Earth" over the alleged killing of a paramilitary member in Karaj in November...
Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences
... According to her office, she is the seventh US governor in the past 50 years to commute all Death Sentences in a state...
Iran protests: Fact-checking claims of '15,000 death sentences'
... The misleading claim of 15,000 Death Sentences is based on accurate estimates of the number of people arrested by the authorities during the ongoing nationwide protests in Iran, and a misinterpretation of demands by hardline MPs and the head of the judiciary for harsh sentences for protesters...
Myanmar executions: US urges China to condemn Myanmar
... Meanwhile Myanmar s junta insisted the men " deserved many Death Sentences"...
Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103
By Christy CooneyBBC News
The last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War Two Nuremberg Trials has died aged 103.
Ben Ferencz was just 27 when he secured the convictions of 22 Nazi officers for War Crimes and crimes against humanity.
He later advocated for the establishment of an international court to prosecute War Crimes , a goal realised in 2002.
Ferencz died peacefully in his sleep on Friday Evening at an assisted living facility in Boynton Beach , Florida.
Confirming his death, the US Holocaust Museum said The World had lost " a leader in The Quest for justice for victims of genocide".
Ferencz was born in Transylvania - part of Romania - in 1920, but His Family emigrated to the US when he was young to escape antisemitism, later Settling In New York .
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1943, he enlisted in the US Army and took part in the Allied landings at Normandy and The Battle of the Bulge. He rose to the rank of Sergeant and ultimately joined a team tasked with investigating and gathering evidence of Nazi War Crimes .
The Team was based with the army in Germany and would enter concentration camps as they were liberated, taking notes on conditions in each and interviewing survivors.
In a later account of his life, Ferencz spoke of finding bodies " piled up like cordwood" and " helpless skeletons with diarrhoea, dysentery, typhus, TB, pneumonia, and other ailments, retching in their louse ridden bunks or on the ground with only their pathetic eyes pleading for help".
He described Buchenwald - One of the largest camps inside Germany - as a " charnel house of indescribable horrors".
" There is No Doubt that I was indelibly traumatized by my experiences as a War Crimes investigator of Nazi extermination centres, " he wrote. " I still try not to talk or think about The Details . "
After The War , he returned to New York to practice law, but shortly afterwards was recruited to help prosecute Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials , despite having no prior trial experience.
He was made chief prosecutor at The Trial of members of the Einsatzgruppen, mobile SS death squads that operated within Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and are estimated to have murdered More Than A Million people.
Of the 22 men On Trial , all were convicted, with 13 of them receiving Death Sentences and four ultimately being executed.
After the trials ended, Ferencz - who was fluent in six language, including German - remained in West Germany and helped Jewish groups obtain a reparations settlement from the new government.
In his later years, he became a professor of International Law and campaigned for an international court that could prosecute the leaders of governments found to have committed War Crimes , writing several books on the subject.
In 2002, The International Criminal Court was Set Up in The Hague , Netherlands, although its effectiveness has been limited by the refusal of several major countries, including the US, to take part.
Ferencz is Survived By A Son and three daughters. His Wife - Childhood sweetheart Gertrude Fried - died in 2019.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
