IRAN:
JUVENILE OFFENDER BEATEN, DAYS FROM EXECUTION
Iranian juvenile offender Saman Naseem was beaten to force him to make more TV
“confessions” on 15
February. He is scheduled to be executed on 19 February for crimes he is
accused of having committed
when he was 17 years old.
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Feb. 17
FEBRUARY 17, 2015:
TEXAS:
Witnesses Against a British Grandmother on Death Row Say Texas Prosecutors
Blackmailed Them Into Testimony
Key witnesses against a British grandmother on death row in Texas have claimed
that prosecutors in her 2002 trial intimidated,
Feb. 17
KENTUCKY:
Ky Senator Files Bill to Reform Death-Penalty Laws
On the same day Pennsylvania's governor placed a moratorium on the death
penalty in the Keystone state, a Kentucky lawmaker filed a bill to make what
she says would be moderate reforms to Kentucky's laws. State Sen.
Feb. 17
COLOMBIA:
Colombia rules out death penalty for child molesters
Colombia has ruled out introducing the death penalty for murderers and child
molesters after a police force general had applied to revoke the existing law.
Rodolfo Palomino, general of Colombia's National Police
Feb. 17
GLOBAL:
Death penalty: Aberration or deterrent?
As Australia appeals for clemency for 2 of its citizens awaiting execution in
Indonesia for drug trafficking, the spotlight is once again focused on the
practice of state-sanctioned killing as punishment for a range of crimes.
Feb. 17
PENNSYLVANIA:
Prosecutor wants death penalty for man with bodies in yard
A prosecutor has asked a jury to send a Pennsylvania man convicted of
strangling 2 people during a 2002 robbery to death row.
The penalty phase of Hugo Selenski's capital murder trial opened Tuesday, 4
Feb. 17
FLORIDAstay of impending execution
Florida Supreme Court blocks execution of Orlando killer Jerry Correll
The Florida Supreme Court today stayed the execution of a death-row inmate who
killed 4 people in Orlando in 1985.
Jerry William Correll was convicted in the
