Urgent Action
EXECUTION SET DESPITE DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
Bruce Ward is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been
diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia. In custody since 1989, he has been on death row for nearly 25
years. Thirty-two years
old at the time of the
March 27
INDIA:
December 16 gangrape case: Supreme Court reserves order on plea challenging
death penalty to convictsThe convicts in the case appealed against the
Judgement of Delhi High Court which considered the crime committed by them
'rarest of the rare' and awarded them the
March 27
FLORIDA:
Tampa Bay's state attorneys say 17 local death row inmates could be eligible
for resentencing
One man raped a woman, slit her throat, then tried to wash his DNA off her body
with cleaning chemicals and lighter fluid.
Another raped and mutilated a 94-year-old woman
