July 26
TEXAS:
Death row inmate Scott Panetti to get further competency review
Scott Panetti, 59, remains on death row in Huntsville, convicted of killing a
Fredericksburg couple in 1992.
"It's still so fresh in my mind, " said Rowena Alvarado. Alvarado's parents,
Joe and Amanda
July 26
BARBADOS:
Condemned men freed
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Tuesday quashed the
convictions of the 2 Barbadian men, who were sentenced to death for the 2006
murder of Damien Alleyne.
The CCJ, which is Barbados' highest court, ruled that Vincent
July 26
OHIOexecution
Ohio child-killer Ronald Phillips executed at Lucasville
Ronald Phillips could not avoid his 7th execution date.
After 6 postponements, the 43-year-old Summit County man was executed Wednesday
for a murder he committed 24 years ago, a week into Bill
July 26
SAUDI ARABIA:
Amnesty: Saudi should stop 'bloody execution spree'Rights groups urge
kingdom to halt executions of 14 men, reporting that at least 66 have been
beheaded so far this year.
Amnesty International has urged Saudi Arabia to abandon what it termed a
"bloody
Urgent Action
MULTIPLE CONCERNS AS MISSOURI EXECUTION SET
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for
a 1998 murder. He
maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before
an almost all-white
jury. Two of the four federal
