June 12
PENNSYLVANIA:
House passes bill addressing retardation in death penalty cases
Jurors would have to unanimously decide that a defendant convicted of
murder was not mentally retarded before they could consider the death
penalty under a bill approved Monday by the state House of
June 13
USA:
Prisoners Gain in Suit Attacking Lethal Injection
The Supreme Court opened the door Monday for death-row inmates to
challenge the way most states carry out executions by lethal injection.
In its unanimous opinion, the court expressed no view on the
constitutionality either
June 13
PAKISTAN:
Death penalty for Sunni militant -- Pakistan has a history of sectarian
violence
A Sunni militant has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after he was
found guilty of killing six Shia Muslims during an attack in 1995.
Mohammad Aslam, also known as Muawia, was sentenced
June 13
TEXAS:
Sister speaks during trial
Like her older brother Davontae, Destiny Williams was disciplined in the
family's east Arlington apartment. If she did something wrong, she was
spanked with a belt, hanger and sometimes an extension cord.
But for Tae Tae, as she called him,
