Sept. 7
SUDAN:
Sudan: Detainees Suffer Arbitrary Arrest, Execution
The Sudanese government has executed prisoners who were minors at the time
of their arrest, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite the human rights
commitments the government has made in the peace process with
southern-bas
Sept. 7
TEXASimpending execution//female
Woman Holds Out Hope That Execution Will Be Postponed -- Newton To Be 1st
Black Woman Inmate To Be Executed
Tears well in her eyes when Frances Newton talks about her children.
"I wonder how they would have turned out," she says, her voice wav
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
September 7, 2005
Two People with Credible Claims of Innocence Scheduled for Execution in
September
Newton May Become the First African American Woman Texas Has Put to Death
Since Resuming the Use of Capital Punishment in 1982
There remai
Sept. 7
IRAQ:
Iraqi president calls for Saddam's execution
Saddam Hussein has confessed to ordering executions and should be hanged
"20 times," Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president, has said.
In an interview on Iraqi television on Tuesday night, Mr Talabani said
that investigator who had ques
Sept. 7
OHIOimpending execution
U.S. judge rejects death-row appeal -- Spirko's execution scheduled in 2
weeks
A federal judge in Toledo has refused to reopen the case of death-row
inmate John Spirko, who is now just 2 weeks from execution for a murder
that some legal experts believe h
death penalty news
September 7, 2005
OHIO:
Federal judge denies Spirko's motion to stop execution
With 14 days to go, a federal judge Tuesday refused to stop the Sept.
20 execu-tion of a man convicted of killing the Elgin postmistress in 1982.
On the same day, John Spirko's attorneys filed a
