May 12
TEXAS:
Deadly gamesThe Court of Criminal Appeals must treat executions with a new
sense of skepticism.
How can you tell if a criminal is too mentally disabled to merit the death
penalty?
If you're a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, you look at the prevailing
standards
May 12
GAZA:
Hamas sentences drug dealers to death by firing squadThe accused were
convicted earlier this year of smuggling tramadol, marijuana, and opium from
Egypt via tunnels.
A military court in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday sentenced 2 Palestinian
men, identified by