[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2015-07-01 Thread Rick Halperin
July 1 SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi sentenced to death over multiple murderMan who strangled, stabbed wife, four children suffered from mental health problems A court in Saudi Arabia has condemned a Saudi national to death for killing his wife and 4 children in 2013. The multiple

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----MO., OKLA., NEB., WYO., UTAH, NEV., HAW.

2015-07-01 Thread Rick Halperin
July 1 MISSOURI: Chief Justice: executions don't reflect on her term, Missouri high court's ideology According to the outgoing Chief Justice of Missouri's Supreme Court, it isn't because of her ideology, or that of the Court, that Missouri has resumed executions in earnest.

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----VA., FLA., ALA., MISS., LA., IND.

2015-07-01 Thread Rick Halperin
July 1 VIRGINIA: US appeals court upholds Virginia death sentence A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of a Virginia inmate who claims he can't be executed because he is intellectually disabled. In a unanimous ruling, a 3-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----USA

2015-07-01 Thread Rick Halperin
July 1 USA: There's nothing 'enlightened' about executing the innocent If there was a bright spot in Monday's regrettable Supreme Court decision in Glossip v. Gross, it's that at least 2 current justices - Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg - are open to the idea that the death