Nov. 17
UGANDA:
123 soldiers on death row, Museveni tells delegates
About 123 soldiers of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces are on death row,
President Yoweri Museveni announced yesterday.
Museveni was defending his government against claims that it has killed
civilians the same way
Nov. 17
USA:
Blinding Justice
In recent years, DNA testing has shown that innocent people can be
convicted of serious crimes, and even end up on death row. The main legal
mechanism for saving wrongly convicted prisoners from execution, and for
challenging other wrongful convictions, is
Nov. 17
TEXAS:
Deputies May Be Disciplined In Death Row Inmate's Escape---Other Jail
Workers Could Be Punished
Some deputies could be punished after a convicted murderer walked out of
the Harris County Jail, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.
The Harris County Sheriff's Department's
Nov. 17
URGENT ACTION APPEAL
17 November 2005 (originally issued 4 Nov)
UA 285/05 Death Penalty USA (Virginia): Robin Lovitt (m)
Robin Lovitt is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 30 November. He
was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Clayton Dicks the
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