Sept. 25
TEXAS:
With Brewer dead, when will John King be executed?
Shortly after Texas prison officials pronounced Lawrence Russell Brewer dead on
Wednesday, Clara Taylor said justice for her brother, James Byrd Jr., was one
step closer to being served.
Brewer, 44, was one of two men
Sept. 25
USA:
On death penalty, confidence does not replace truth
2000: Frank Lee Smith is posthumously exonerated — he’d died 11 months earlier
— 14 years after being convicted of raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl.
The eyewitnesses were wrong.
2001: Charles Fain is exonerated
Sept. 25
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Solicitor: Death penalty about justice, not winning
An area solicitor said he has no problem with South Carolina's top jurist
suggesting that state prosecutors refrain from a win at all costs mentality
in death penalty cases.
Noting capital cases must
Sept. 25
GLOBAL:
Opposition to death penalty rising
The drop in executions is an indication that the world is moving in the
direction urged by the UN.
The approval by the UN General Assembly in December 2007 of the Resolution for
a Universal Moratorium against Capital Punishment was
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Sept. 25
USA:
Only conservatives can end the death penalty.
How can we end the death penalty in the United States?
Every so often, one capital case receives wide attention and makes a public
spectacle of the American machinery of death. Last week, it was the controversy
over Troy
