[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2017-10-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Oct. 24 ARIZONA: What Happened to Rachel Gray?Barry Jones Was Sent to Death Row for the Murder of a 4-Year-Old Girl. Did Arizona Get It Wrong? On a Monday morning in early September, Hildegard Stoecker was on her front patio in southwest Tucson, where she likes to spend the

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2013-02-22 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 22 ARIZONA: Arias seeks death penalty stay, court rejects Jodi Arias' effort to get the death penalty option in her murder case temporarily set aside was met Friday with a swift rejection from the Arizona Supreme Court in a 1-sentence response denying the motion filed just hours

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2013-01-10 Thread Rick Halperin
Jan. 10 ARIZONAnew execution date Arizona high court grants execution warrant motion A March 6 execution date has been set for an Arizona prison inmate who's been on death row since 1985. The Arizona Supreme Court granted a motion for an execution warrant Tuesday for

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2012-03-08 Thread Rick Halperin
March 8 ARIZONAexecution Arizona inmate executed, state's 2nd in 8 days Arizona executed an inmate Thursday for killing a Scottsdale man while robbing his home in 1991 — the 2nd death sentence carried out in the state in 8 days. Robert Charles Towery, 47, was declared dead at

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2012-02-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 24 ARIZONAclemency denied/impending execution Arizona death-row inmate requests rejected by clemency board After 5 hours of testimony Friday, the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency refused to commute the death sentence of Robert Moormann, who murdered and dismembered his

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2011-08-13 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 13 ARIZONA: Peoria woman who faced death penalty sues after case thrown out A Peoria woman who once faced the death penalty is suing authorities who had accused her of murdering a 4-month-old boy. After years of fighting for her innocence, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2008-12-08 Thread Rick Halperin
Dec. 8 ARIZONA: Nation's Oldest Death Row Inmate Will Never Be Executed A few weeks ago, an elderly gentleman named Viva Leroy Nash wrote to New Times about the death penalty. Now that our stubborn President Bush is about to leave office, Nash wrote in a shaky hand, it appears that our

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2008-10-05 Thread Rick Halperin
Oct. 5 ARIZONA: Pima County Attorney: Green: Claudia Ellquist Name: Claudia Ellquist Office seeking: Pima County Attorney Party registration: Green Party Age: 59 Occupation/employer: Self-employed political consultant. Clients have included the Healthy Arizona Initiative Committee

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news-----ARIZONA

2008-09-19 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 19 ARIZONA: WHY I WATCH PEOPLE DIE In America, we love to kill people. Sometimes it is legal, more often it is not. But, legal or not, the killing is steady. Sometimes it is in self-defense, sometimes it is in a frenzy of rage or fear, and sometimes it is premeditated, planned for

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news---ARIZONA

2007-04-07 Thread Rick Halperin
April 7 ARIZONA: State begins warrant process to execute first inmate since 2000 The Arizona Supreme Court received a warrant for execution April 2 from the Attorney General's Office for Robert Comer, who was sentenced to die in 1988 for a violent crime spree at a campground near Apache

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARIZONA

2006-08-20 Thread Rick Halperin
August 20 ARIZONA: Death penalty cases unnecessarily held up by federal judges Robert Charles Comer wants to take responsibility for the murders, kidnapping, robbery and rape he committed nearly 20 years ago at Apache Lake and face the ultimate punishment state execution by lethal

[Deathpenalty]death penalty news-----ARIZONA

2005-08-16 Thread Rick Halperin
FriendsI forward the following for your information -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:25:35 +0100 From: Brian Crowther brian.crowth...@ntlworld.com Subject: Waiting to Die .. Fellow Abolitionists With his most recent letter to me, my friend

[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----ARIZONA

2005-08-16 Thread Rick Halperin
Fellow Abolitionists I have just received the latest article from my friend Richie Rossi, now in his 21st year on the row in Arizona and presently having an extremely hard time following upon the first English edition of his book, Waiting to Die: Life on Death Row. His resilience never ceases

[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----ARIZONA

2005-08-16 Thread Rick Halperin
Nov. 22 ARIZONA: Andriano death penalty hearing postponed A hearing on whether Wendi Andriano deserves to die for murdering her terminally ill husband four years ago has been postponed until Nov. 30. The Phoenix mother of 2 was convicted Thursday following an 11-week trial of poisoning