May 26
JAPAN:
Japanese gangster sentenced to hang for mayor's assassination
A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a gangster to death by hanging for
gunning down the mayor of Nagasaki in a rare assassination that led the
country to tighten controls on guns.
Tetsuya Shiroo, 60, who was
May 26
MISSISSIPPI:
Bishop may be next for execution
Mississippi's next legalized execution could be Dale Leo Bishop, convicted
of capital murder in the 1998 death of Mark Gentry in Saltillo.
Attorney Gen. Jim Hood said Bishop's execution could be set as early as
August.
His case is
May 26
TEXAS:
Will death become the exception, not the rule?Quintero case highlights
a shift some attribute to sentence options, DNA, plea deals
If there was one thing that was all but certain in the world of Houston
criminal justice, it was that someone who killed a law enforcement
May 26
USA:
More fears about executing the innocent
Defense attorneys worry bad evidence, witnesses send men to chambers
Nobody has produced irrefutable proof that any innocent man was executed
Former prosecutor: Death penalty for a greatly cruel, sadistic-type
crime
Since 1973, 129
May 26
ISRAEL:
MK Eldad: Death Penalty for Golan Land Concessions
Quoting from Israel's criminal legislation at a meeting of the Knesset
Golan Lobby on Monday, Knesset Member Arieh Eldad (National Union-National
Religious Party) said that relinquishing territory to Syria is a crime
that
