May 30
USA:
Challenge to lethal injections could mean delayed executions
Capital punishment in the US is facing unprecedented legal challenges
after years of revelations about inaccurate convictions and racial and
class inequalities in the way the system is administered, legal experts
say.
May 30
VIETNAM:
Chinese death row inmate kills himself in Vietnam
A 70-year-old Chinese man due for execution in Vietnam committed suicide
in his prison cell last Wednesday.
Chen Kung Sung apparently tore his clothes and using them to hang himself
in the central Khanh Hoa province.
Sung
May 30
TEXAS:
Attorneys reveal why they eliminate potential jurorsUT employees,
engineers, police officers and lawyers among those attorneys don't want on
jury.
The most important part of any criminal trial, lawyers say, isn't the
compelling testimony or the dramatic opening
May 30
USA:
Jury finds Muhammad guilty in sniper trial
John Allen Muhammad was convicted of 6 of the Washington-area sniper
killings Tuesday after the prosecution's star witness, Muhammad's young
protege, portrayed him as the mastermind of an audacious terror scheme in
which phase 2
