Jan. 17
TEXAS:
Sharon Keller is Texas' Judge DreadWhen Sharon Keller turned off the
clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most
vilified judge in Texas
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins says his predecessors were
sometimes unfair to defendants.
Jan. 17
USA:
Court upholds challenge to death row interview banThe federal prison
media policy focused too much on restricting rights rather than ensuring
the prison's security, the court held.
A federal policy prohibiting death row inmates from conducting
face-to-face interviews with
Jan. 17
SOUTH DAKOTA:
Measure to clean up death penalty clears
A bill that corrections department officials say will clean-up capital
punishment laws passed the Senate State Affairs Committee 9-0 Wednesday.
The bill revises old laws dealing with competency hearings for death-row
inmates
Jan. 17
SRI LANKA:
Death sentence for murder convict
Colombo High Court Judge Thilak Thabrew yesterday sentenced a person who
was convicted for murder charges. Liyana Pathiranage Wickramanayake alias
Janaka was convicted for committing the murder of Mohotti Arachchige
Sunethra Almeda of
Jan. 17
ALABAMA:
Shaw gets life without parole in 4 murders - Jury ratifies his guilty
plea
Derrol Shaw was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday after a
Jefferson County jury ratified his guilty plea in 4 capital murders he
committed in a 5-day span in 2006.
Shaw, 20, had no
Jan. 18
USA:
Kenny Richey is proof that the death penalty doesn't need to be carried
out to destroy a lifeThe Scot has considered suicide more often in the
past week than during his time in jail
Kenny Richey, the 43-year-old Scotsman who returned home 10 days ago after
21 years on
