May 29
QATAR:
Death penalty sought for Qatari accused of rape
A Qatari national may face death sentence for raping a female relative and
abusing another man along with 3 other suspects, a Qatari newspaper
reported yesterday.
The case came 1 week after a landmark judgment where a Qatari
May 29
US MILITARY:
Marines in Iraq 'massacre' may face the death penalty
US Marines could face the death penalty after one of their number took
horrific photos of a massacre in Iraq on his mobile phone, Britain's
Independent has learned.
The photographs, seized by the US Naval Criminal
May 27
PENNSYLVANIA:
Court rejects killer's death penaltyJustices send Mays case back to
county for resentencing
For the 2nd time in 10 1/2 years, the state Supreme Court has overturned
the death penalty of Freeman May, convicted of 1st-degree murder in the
1982 stabbing death of a
May 27
GLOBAL:
Thousands still being executed worldwide
At least 2,148 people were executed in 2005 despite the majority of the
worlds countries having abolished the death penalty in law or in practice,
Amnesty International said Tuesday.
In its annual report on the state of the world's
May 26
FLORIDA:
Court backs man's death sentence
The state's highest court has denied a local man's effort to have his
death sentence tossed on the grounds that he is mentally retarded.
The inmate, Melvin Trotter, 45, who fatally stabbed a 70-year-old woman
during a robbery of a
May 26
PHILIPPINES:
Commutation of death penalty on Chiong sisters' killers eyed
JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez has recommended to President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo the commutation of the death sentences of 7 convicted of
the kidnapping and killing of the Chiong sisters in 1997.
May 29
TEXAS:
25-year-old Lucas murder case may reopen in Brownfield
A little more than 25 years ago, 17-year-old baby sitter Dianna Bryant was
killed - found with a vacuum-cleaner cord wrapped around her neck.
3 years later, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to the killing.
It was
May 29
US MILITARY:
U.S. airman to face murder trial
In Keflavik, Iceland, a United States airman will face a court-martial on
a murder charge in the killing of a U.S. servicewoman who was scheduled to
testify against him in another case, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said
Monday. Airman
