March 4
IDAHO:
Idaho court upholds lower court's death penalty sentence
An Idaho death row inmate will remain there following an Idaho Supreme Court
decision upholding a lower court's ruling rejecting a post-conviction relief
request.
The Idaho Supreme Court in a 189-page decision
March 4
MISSOURI:
Forum to focus on death penalty
A free forum on the death penalty is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Missouri
Western State University.
The Death Penalty: On Trial is free and open to the public at 2 p.m. in
Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101.
Danixia
March 4
PAKISTAN:
Abolition of death penalty for drug offences urged
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has called for the abolition
of death penalty for drug-related offences.
Releasing the INCB's annual report for 2014, its president said on Tuesday:
While the
March 4
TEXAS:
Death penalty opponents take uphill battle to end executions to the Texas
Capitol
Death row exonerees on Tuesday called for lawmakers to abolish the death
penalty - a long-shot bid in Texas where capital punishment has broad support.
Death penalty opponents declared
March 4
INDONESIA:
How Indonesia carries out the death penalty: rules of execution - As
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran await execution along with
nationals from Brazil, France, Ghana, the Philippines and Nigeria, Indonesia
sets out the rules governing their deaths
March 4
PENNSYLVANIA:
House resolution urges Wolf to reverse death penalty moratorium
Tricia Wertz lost her husband to a gunman's bullet in 2006.
Now Wertz, 44, a mother of 2 from Reading, wants Scott Wertz's killer, Cletus
Rivera, permanently removed from death row.
I hope to see
my postings to this list will resume on Sat. March 14 or Sun., March 15
Rick
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March 4
GLOBAL:
'No evidence death penalty deters any crime,' senior UN official tells Rights
Council
Despite progress in recent years to universally abolish the death
