Feb. 4
TENNESSEEexecution
'I did not kill them' condemned man says
Steve Henley was already strapped to the gurney when the blinds were
raised in the death chamber and his family saw him for the last time.
They'd spent the last hour together in sterile conference rooms,
reminiscing
Feb. 4
TEXASexecution--volunteer
Parolee who used bat to kill woman, son executed
A parolee convicted of using a baseball bat to fatally bludgeon his
girlfriend and her teenage son at their home in San Antonio was executed
Wednesday night.
Nothing I can say can ever change the past,
Feb. 4
CALIFORNIA:
Judges Question Whether Death Penalty Appeal Is Premature
A panel of Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges voiced uncertainty
yesterday as to whether it could hear an appeal by 2 defendants who claim
they were not given sufficient notice of the prosecution's
Feb. 4
TENNESSEE:
Henley put to death, but questions remain
Tennessee executed Steve Henley early Wednesday for the 1985 killings of a
couple in Jackson County, applying a final solution to a case that had no
final answers.
Just as the state moved ahead to put Philip Workman to death
Feb. 4
TEXAS:
Words define death penalty
Every time I read of the execution of a heinous murderer, somewhere in the
article is the line that Texas is the most active death penalty state.
Why not refer to it as the most active victim rights state or the most
active justice for victims
Feb. 5
INDONESIA:
Death Penalty Gets Both Support and Censure at Human Rights Discussion
Indonesia still has use for the death penalty, particularly for
drug-related crimes, a legal expert said during a human rights discussion
on Wednesday.
Especially for drug users, the death penalty
