Dec. 5
TEXAS:
Historic low number of death sentences in Texas
Texas juries have sent 9 people to death row this year, the fewest in the
state for 1 year since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital
punishment to resume, according to a report Thursday from an anti-death
penalty
Dec. 5
MARYLAND:
Guest column: Death penalty will always put innocent lives at risk
In recommending an end to the state's death penalty, the Maryland
Commission on Capital Punishment overwhelmingly supported a critical
finding: Maryland's death penalty system carries a real risk of
Dec. 5
USA:
Carry out the death penalty quickly if guilt isn't in doubt
Troy Davis and Joseph Zangara. Remember those names. They're important in
any discussion of the death penalty.
Any rational one, that is.
Let's take Davis first.
Back in 1989, a security guard intervened when he
Dec. 5
JAMAICA:
Lawmakers Vote to Retain Death Penalty
In the end, not even an appeal from the internationally respected South
African Archbishop Desmond Tutu made a difference.
By a comfortable margin of 34 to15 with 10 abstentions, Jamaican lawmakers
voted Tuesday to retain the death
