July 6
MISSOURI:
Death-penalty trial begins in Jackson County
The crime spree was both horrific and heinous: It included multiple
victims, sadistic sex and torture, and it sparked a nationwide manhunt.
Today, Jackson County residents among a pool of more than 420 potential
jurors will
July 5
UTAH:
Child rape penalty
I am so upset over the decision by the five liberal Supreme Court judges
that child rape should not be punishable by death (High court bans death
penalty for child rape, Tribune, June 26). In his opinion for the
majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote
July 4
NEBRASKA:
Unclear future for 10 men on Nebraska's death row
For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska's electric
chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie Boys Don't
Cry.
But the state Supreme Court made that sentence uncertain for Lotter
July 7
USA:
Who Misread the Data on Deterrence?
In their June 30 op-ed, A Death Penalty Puzzle, Cass R. Sunstein and
Justin Wolfers asserted that the opinions issued recently in Baze v. Rees
by Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia on opposite
sides of the death
