April 3
TANZANIA:
Bunge Committee Touts Review of Death Penalty
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs has advised the
government to review death penalty laws to allow death row prisoners who have
been in prison for a long time to have their sentences commuted
April 3
TEXAS:
Texas House to hear 2 death penalty bills today
2 death penalty bills will be heard in committee Monday April 3, 2017 at the
Texas House of Representatives in Austin, TX.
The 1st one is House Bill 3054 by Herrero (D-Robstown). Herrero is presenting a
revision in jury
Urgent Action
JUROR AND VICTIM'S PARENTS OPPOSE EXECUTION
Paul Storey, aged 32, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 12 April. Among
those who are calling for clemency are the parents of the man he was convicted
of killing in 2006. One of the jurors who voted for the death sentence
Urgent Action
EXECUTION SET FOR CRIME COMMITTED AT AGE 20
Kenneth Williams, aged 38, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 27 April for a
murder committed
during a prison escape in 1999. Twenty years old at the time, he asserts he is
not the same person
he was then, and can contribute to
