March 1
USA:
Law Students Take Nationwide Action Against The Death Penalty
Law students across the country are speaking out in opposition to the
death penalty on March 1, 2006 as part of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
Law Student Day Against the Death Penalty.
At least 32 law schools
March 1
ENGLAND:
Death penalty a step too far say families of victims
Tougher sentencing should be introduced for drivers who kill - but not the
death penalty.
That's the verdict of 2 families whose lives have been devastated by road
tragedies.
They spoke to the WHT after our story last
Mar. 1
TEXAS:
Soffar's fate in jury's hands
Jurors began deliberating on the punishment for convicted capital murderer
Max Soffar this morning after hearing his attorneys describe him as
someone with severe mental problems, who was failed by his parents and the
state of Texas.
Prosecutors
Mar. 1
ALABAMA:
Breathing life into a moratorium
By political standards, a moratorium on the death penalty isn't
particularly sexy legislation. Certainly not as sexy as, say, bills that
would make torching a church a life-without-parole offense or that would
outlaw disruptive protests at
March 1
AFGHANISTAN:
Conviction and Death Sentence of Former Intelligence Chief Flawed
The trial of Assadullah Sarwari, who was sentenced to death on Sunday for
his role in heading Afghanistan's brutal intelligence agency during the
Communist government of the late 1970s, violated basic
March 1
TEXAS:
Judge postpones ruling on Yates' March retrialDouble jeopardy claim is
rejected in children's slayings
As defense attorneys continue to quibble with the prosecution over a
35-year plea offer made to Andrea Yates in the drownings of her children,
a state district judge is
