Nov. 23
FLORIDA:
Death row inmate denied appeal
A Florida inmate faces execution despite new revelations that the state
prompted a trial witness to lie, according to a news release from the
Death Penalty Information Center.
Inmate Wayne Tompkins was to be executed in Florida on October
Nov. 23
JAMAICA:
More pastors support than oppose death penalty
AS the debate on hanging gains momentum and Parliament deliberates a
conscience vote, more than half of the members of the clergy polled by the
Sunday Observer last week have thrown their weight behind capital
punishment,
Nov. 22
KENTUCKY:
Marco Allen Chapman took easy way out with execution
I keep wondering what it must have been like for 2 innocent children
inside their home in Gallatin County back in 2002, when then 30- year-old
Marco Allen Chapman began cutting their throats.
The 6-year-old boy and
Nov. 22
PENNSYLVANIA:
VERDICT EVOKES RELIEF--Friends of slain NSU student hope family can start
moving toward closure; sentencing starts Monday
William Smithson lowered his eyes and shook his head as a jury Friday
found him guilty of all charges in the strangulation death of 23-year-old
Nov. 22
USAfemale federal death row inmate
U.S. Supreme Court denies review of Forest City woman's death sentence
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition Wednesday to review convictions
and sentences against Angela Johnson, 44, of Forest City, for aiding and
abetting the
Nov. 22
BURUNDI:
Burundi abolishes death penalty, outlaws homosexuals
Burundi's parliament overwhelmingly agreed on Saturday to abolish the
death penalty but homosexuals voiced outrage at a provision in the new
penal law that makes them criminals.
The new set of laws overwhelmingly
Nov. 22
MISSISSIPPI:
Minter found guilty of capital murder
Larry Minter has been found guilty on 2 counts of capital murder in the
deaths of Harond Bucky Levron and Christine Suber.
Minter, 20, was found guilty on 2 counts of capital murder and robbery. He
was found not guilty on the
Nov. 22
UNITED NATIONS:
UN calls for moratorium on death penalty
A UN committee on Thursday called for the 2nd year running for a
moratorium on the death penalty around the world, a spokesman said.
The resolution was adopted by the UN human rights committee by 104 votes
in favor and 48
Nov. 20
TEXASexecution
Convicted killer of Dallas-area woman executed
Convicted killer Robert Jean Hudson was executed Thursday night for
fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend after he beat down the door and barged
into her Dallas-area apartment nearly a decade ago.
Hudson, 45,
Nov. 20
UTAH:
Man Escapes Death Penalty In Decades-Old MurdeGriffin Sentenced To
Life In Prison
Jury recommends life in prison without parole for Glenn Howard Griffin in
the 1984 beating death of convenience store clerk Bradley Newell Perry The
man who murdered a convenience store
Nov. 20
AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA:
Melbourne woman reveals love for Bali Nine's Scott Rush
A MELBOURNE woman has spoken of her love for death-row Bali 9 drug-runner
Scott Rush.
Laura Pemberton has revealed how she went to Bali as a tourist and visited
the condemned man in Kerobokan prison -
Nov. 23
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY/GAZA:
Gaza government seeks to bypass PA on death penalty
The Hamas government is planning to send Gaza's High Court of Justice the
petitions of families calling on the government to impose death sentences
on people convicted of murdering their kin or of
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