URGENT ACTION APPEAL
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NOTE: We received a number of reports that the email addresses for the
Bangladeshi
authorities given in last Thursday's UA were not working very well.
We have found a number of other possible email addresses for the
authorities in
Oct. 3
TEXAS:
New evidence surfaces in bombing case
6 years ago, Texas death row inmate Michael Toney made headlines when he
tried to sell seats to his execution over the Internet.
But now Toney, convicted of blowing up three people in Lake Worth on
Thanksgiving Day in 1985, may create
Oct. 3
SOUTH DAKOTA:
Governor Rounds offered to stay Page's execution
Both men are on South Dakota's death row for their commission of the
murder of Chester Allan Poage of Spearfish. Darrel Hoadley is serving a
life sentence for the same crime.
A series of letters filed in Piper's court
Oct. 3
USA:
EXECUTIONS: Inmates oppose injected death Prison documents final hours
before Ohio's condemned die
From California to Maryland, lawyers for death row inmates have mounted
challenges to the use of lethal injection in virtually every state with
capital punishment.
U.S.
Oct. 3
INDIA:
Indian president urged to commute death sentence for man involved in
parliament attack
Pressure mounted on India's president Tuesday to pardon a Kashmiri man who
was sentenced to death for involvement in a deadly attack on the national
parliament 5 years ago.
Mohammad Afzal
Oct. 3
OHIO:
Parole board OKs executing cult killer Taft to rule on Lundgren
clemency
Jeffrey Lundgren said he thought the end of time was near when he
received a vision from God that commanded him to kill five members of his
Kirtland religious cult in 1989.
After spending 16 years
Oct. 3
LIBYA:
Dirty needles, dirty dealingsDocumentary draws attention to the role
of hygiene in HIV transmission in Libya.
Experts argue over the importance of dirty needles in HIV transmission in
Africa.
Punchstock
There are 2 accounts of how hundreds of children in a Libyan
