July 28
TEXAS:
Backward Texas law may make man pay with life for deed he didn't do
Kenneth Foster didn't commit murder. But that won't stop the State of
Texas from executing the Austin native Aug. 30.
It was Mauriceo Brown who shot and killed Michael LaHood in San Antonio 12
years ago
July 28
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Twice-Convicted Triple-Murderer SentencedKiller Gets 3 Consecutive
Life Sentences
A man twice convicted and sentenced to death in a triple homicide 10 years
ago was back in court on Friday.
Friday morning, Troy Burkhart appeared before Judge J.C. Nicholson in
July 28
INDIA:
34 now waiting for death at Yerawada jail
Once an integral part of India's freedom struggle, Pune's Yerawada Central
Prison now has another tag - the jail with the highest number of death row
inmates in the state, and possibly the nation.
The prison now houses 34 convicts
July 29
TEXAS:
An appointment with death despite the evidence
Another trip to death row.
Another man scheduled to die on the gurney in Texas' infamous killing
chamber.
Another human being who does not deserve this tragic fate.
And another case that speaks to the absurdity of how
July 29
NEW JERSEY:
Life without parole is harsh enough
When New Jerseyan Byron Halsey was exonerated recently after serving 22
years in prison for a crime he did not commit, I shuddered at how close we
came to executing an innocent man. Halsey had faced a potential death
penalty but
July 29
OREGON:
DA pay is all over the map in Oregon Some counties add to the salary
the state gives prosecutors, but politics can play a role
In his nearly 14 years as Clatsop County district attorney, Josh Marquis
has testified twice before Congress on the death penalty and last
July 30
USA:
After Flawed Executions, States Draw Hoods Tighter
A Missouri doctor who had supervised more than 50 executions by lethal
injection testified last year that he sometimes gave condemned inmates
smaller doses of a sedative than the state's protocol called for,
explaining that he
