Jan. 29
TEXAS:
Amnesty International chapter sponsors death penalty events
In its last days of Death Penalty Awareness Week, the SMU chapter of
Amnesty International will sponsor two events in an effort to inform
students about the atrocities of capital punishment and the death row
inmate
Jan. 29
OHIO:
Family of Ohio woman slain by son wants him spared
An inmate fighting execution for killing his mother in a crack
cocaine-induced rage has an unusual group of allies: his aunt and uncles,
the siblings of the slain woman, as well as her late mother.
Ohio prison officials say
Jan. 29
PENNSYLVANIA:
Death penalty upheld for Pa. man who killed ex
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a man who
fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and wounded her son in July 2004.
Attorneys for 59-year-old James VanDivner Jr., of Brownsville, have argued
for a
Jan. 29
INDIA:
Terrorists deserve death sentence: Madni
Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind (JUH) leader and Rajya Sabha member Moulana Mahmood
Madni said on Thursday terrorism and communalism should be treated in the
same manner and perpetrators of both crimes deserve death sentence.
"One should fight
Jan. 29
TEXASexecution
Inmate executed for killing fellow prisoner
A high-ranking Texas prison gang member whose violent history included an
attack on an inmate with a homemade spear was put to death Thursday night
for fatally injecting a fellow prisoner with an overdose of heroin.
O
Jan. 30
NEW MEXICO:
House committee approves death penalty repeal
A bill to abolish the death penalty in New Mexico wins the approval of a
House committee.
The legislation would provide instead for life in prison without the
possibility of parole.
It passed the House Consumer and Publi
