[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS----UPDATED IMPENDING TEXAS EXECUTIONS

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Halperin
Executions under Rick Perry, 2001-present-245 Numberscheduled execution date-name 247-September 25--Cleve Foster 248-October 10-Jonathan Green 249-October 18-Anthony Haynes

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----CALIF., ALA.

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 21 CALIFORNIA: NEW POLL: 50% of Likely Voters in CA Prefer Life in Prison Without Parole to Death Penalty -- Statewide Poll Released as YES on 34 Campaign The latest statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), released today, found that 50% of likely

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----USA, ARK., GA.

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 21 USA: US death penalty opponents mark Davis anniversary US death penalty opponents called for an investigation into growing concerns about police and prosecutor misconduct on the one-year anniversary of the controversial execution of Troy Davis. Amnesty International and the

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----GA., USA, COLO., MISS.

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 21 GEORGIA: Jurors stumped on death penalty decision in teen slaying Jurors deliberating on whether a man should get the death penalty in the beating death of a Douglas County teen say they cannot decide. Prosecutors said 4 men beat Bobby Tillman to death at a house party in

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2012-09-21 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 21 AMERICAN SAMOA: American Samoa asked to scrap death penalty American Samoa's governor has moved to repeal the death penalty, more than 80 years after it was last used. Togiola Tulafono told Radio Australia he has written to both the House of Representatives and Senate in