April 24
ARKANSAS:
Arkansas Supreme Court rejects death row stays
The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected requests for stays of execution from
two inmates set to die in the nation's first double execution since 2000.
Jack Jones Jr. and Marcel Williams had asked the state's highest
IRAN:
Urgent Action
MAN ARRESTED AT 15 FACES IMMINENT EXECUTION
Peyman Barandah, who was 15 years old at the time of his arrest, is due to be
executed on 10 May in
Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Fars Province, Iran. He was sentenced to death after
a grossly unfair
trial which violated
April 24
FLORIDA:
Orange County death penalty trial begins Monday
Opening statements are scheduled Monday morning in the murder trial of a man
accused of killing an 83-year-old Orange County woman.
Juan Rosario is accused of beating Elena Ortega to death and setting her house
on
April 24
ARKANSASexecution
Arkansas death row inmate Jack Jones executed
Jack Harold Jones was put to death by the state of Arkansas Monday night by way
of lethal injection.
Authorities began administering the execution drugs at 7:06 p.m. and Jones was
pronounced dead at 7:20
April 24
ARKANSASexecution (#2)
Arkansas death row inmate Marcel Williams executed
Marcel Williams was the second death row inmate to be executed by the state of
Arkansas Monday night.
Williams was put to death by way of lethal injection. The drugs were
administered at 10:16
