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SC Senate passes bill to make electric chair default execution method South Carolina senators passed a bill Wednesday that would make the electric chair the default method execution in the state. (Source: WIS/File) By Patrick Phillips | March 3, 2021 at 12:11 PM EST - Updated March 3 at 4:32 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - The South Carolina Senate has passed a bill that would change the state’s default method of execution and add a third option. Senators added a firing squad as an al...

Published March 2, 2021, 4:57 PM The Duterte administration expects Congress to pass its 12 top priority measures by June this year to enable the country bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. The Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) Executive Committee (ExCom) listed 30 measures in the Common Legislative Agenda (CLA) for the 18th Congress, of which five have already been passed by the legislature. Acting Soc...

March 3, 2021 | 12:33 am Font Size PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS THE government is pushing for the passage of 25 priority measures before the end of the year, including new taxes on digital platforms and offshore gaming operators, further liberalization of the retail trade sector and the last two remaining tax reform packages. The Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) Executive Committee approved the common legislative agenda for the 18 th Congress during a meeti...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 3) – The last two packages of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) and a measure that will aid pandemic-stricken small businesses are among the top legislative agenda of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) this year. LEDAC determines and recommends to the President the top socio-economic development goals affecting national development. Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and LEDAC Secretariat Head Karl Kend...

Ohio bill could take death penalty off the table for prosecutors As Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters announced a potential death penalty case Tuesday morning, Ohio lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are working to take that legal option off the table. and last updated 2021-02-24 23:21:07-05 It’s an effort that began long before Wednesdays announcement, and one a Republican from Loveland is now leading. “We don’t have any ability to really humanely execute these people,â€...

Donald Trump Executioners May Have Misled Courts, Sparking Calls for Investigation On 2/23/21 at 4:22 AM EST Conflicting accounts of the federal executions that took place in the final months of Donald Trumps presidency have prompted calls for an investigation into whether executioners deliberately misled the courts. According to the Associated Press, executioners likened the deaths by lethal injection to falling asleep—in sworn accounts they called gurneys "beds" and referred to final breath...

1:07 State Sen. Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) has been working on a death penalty moratorium since 2011. Shes introduced similar bills in 2013 and in 2015, with then-Rep. and current Sen. Niraj Antani (R-Miami Township). She was alone in proposing the ban in 2017, and was joined by Republican co-sponsor state Sen. Peggy Lehner (R-Kettering) for her first Senate bill try in 2019. Things are different this time, Antonio said. “For the first time, we announce today a bipartisan team of legislator...

Many states have been making the push to legalize marijuana, and rappers like Jay Z have been jumping into the cannabis world with his Monogram bra...

Updated: 11:36 AM CST Feb 10, 2021 The Associated Press Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate by lethal injection in what would be the states first death sentence carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic.Willie B. Smith III is scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the shotgun slaying of Sharma Ruth Johnson three decades ago.U.S. District Judge Austin Huffaker, Jr. on Tuesday denied Smiths lawyers request for a stay. Attorneys for the 51-year-old Smith have sought...

The execution of Lisa Montgomery in Indiana in January made headlines around the world. She was the first female inmate executed by the federal government since 1953. Montgomery faced the death penalty for strangling pregnant 23-year old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in 2004. Montgomery cut the unborn baby from Stinnett’s womb, claiming the child as her own. Montgomery was a woman described as damaged and delusional, who suffered from depression, schizophrenia, personality disorder, PTSD and traumatic ...