April 20
TEXASimpending execution re-set
Railcar killer to undergo psychiatric testing
The scheduled execution next month of Angel Maturino Resendiz, a serial
killer who admitted to at least 9 brutal murders during his
cross-continent boxcar journeys, has been postponed to allow
April 20
FLORIDA:
Killer avoids death penalty, gets life termMichael Locascio was
sentenced to 3 consecutive life terms in prison, plus 30 years, for
killing his sister-in-law.
The judge called it a text-book case for the death penalty.
But the jurors recommended Michael Locascio's
April 20
IRAQ:
More Hussein Signatures Authenticated, Judge Says
Handwriting experts authenticated Saddam Hussein's signature on 2
documents approving the execution of 148 Shiites and the confiscation of
their land, a judge in the ex-dictator's trial said Wednesday.
The killings
April 20
TEXAS:
Execution of 'Railroad Killer' delayed for psychiatric testing
The scheduled execution next month of Angel Maturino Resendiz, the Mexican
drifter dubbed the Railroad Killer, has been delayed for more
psychiatric testing, according to Harris County prosecutors.
Maturino
April 20
LOUISIANA:
Morgan Lewis Partners Get a Hollywood Ending
2 attorneys meet with their death row client at one of America's most
notorious prisons and tell him he's scheduled to die in the next month.
After more than a decade of fighting for his innocence, the appeals have
run out.
April 20
VIRGINIAnew execution date
Execution date set for man who killed 3 neighbors
An execution date has been set a man convicted of killing 3 neighbors in
Danville in 1996.
Danville Circuit Court today scheduled Percy Walton's execution for June
8th.
The 27-year-old was
April 20
USA:
Defense rests in Moussaoui trial
Defense lawyers closed their case for sparing Zacarias Moussaoui's life
Thursday after the government admitted it had no evidence that he and
would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were to have joined in a hijacking as
part of the Sept. 11, 2001,
