Oct. 15
TEXAS:
Deliberations under way in death penalty caseDefense lawyer invokes
Gandhi in attempt to spare Selwyn Davis' life.
Selwyn P. Davis' lawyers this morning called on a Travis County jury to
set aside their feelings of anger, fear and revenge and sentence the
25-year-old to
Oct. 15
TENNESSEE:
Events have raised doubts about fairness in system
In my former roles as the attorney general for the state of Tennessee and
a United States attorney, I have made decisions affecting the life and
liberty of our fellow citizens.
Once I took the oath of office for those
Oct. 15
CONNECTICUT:
Peeler jury OKs death penalty
A Superior Court jury has recommend that Russell Peeler Jr. be zentenced
to death.
Appearing to be headed toward a deadlock at noon, the , the 6 men and 6
women on the jury in Peeler's death-penalty hearing, came back sortly
after 2:30
Oct. 15
GEORGIA:
The death penalty: What do you think?
Journalism students at West Forsyth High School are debating the death
penalty, including whether the punishment should exist in our court
system. NorthSide Opinions, working with English teacher John Bush, the
school's journalism
Oct. 15
GLOBAL:
Death penalty in the Bible
The Editor, Sir:
Associate Pastor Daren S. Larmond, in a Gleaner letter, argued, Death is
not a penalty. Death is an easy way out and asking, why should we kill a
man for killing a man? He added the perennial adage that, no evidence
exists that
