Dec. 13
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Death penaltyNixon earned his ultimate sentence
Humane? -- The state injecting into John B. Nixon's veins a lethal dose of
the sedative sodium thiopental, leading to a deep sleep, is more humane
than the last moments of terror and bullet to
Dec. 13
INDONESIA:
Muslim wants Poso execution delayed
A Muslim leader has joined the chorus of voices calling for a delay in the
execution of three people convicted for their roles in killings in Poso,
to give the authorities more time to investigate the possible involvement
of others in
URGENT ACTION APPEAL
13 December 2005
UA 323/04 (Originally issued 26 November 2004 and re-
issued 21 June 2005)
Fear of death sentence/Unfair Trial/Flogging
SAUDI ARABIA:
Abbas Majood Akanni (m)
Murtala Amao Oladele (m)
Abbas Azeez Oladuni (m)
Nurudeen Owoalade (m)
Nurudeen Sani (m)
Dec. 13
CALIFORNIA:
Without mercy
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger once characterized his conflicted feelings
about the death penalty as a duel between his Austrian brain and the
American brain. He recalled that capital punishment was an absolute
no-no in his native Austria.
On Monday, his
Dec. 13
TEXAS:
19 convicted killers put to death in Texas in 2005
Pints of Blue Bell ice cream purchased for the men housed in the Polunsky
Unit of Texas' death row usually mean one thing - someone is about to die.
In what's become somewhat of a tradition, a condemned inmate preparing
Dec. 13
TEXAS:
Advocates say Texas needs innocence panel
53 years after he was executed for murder in England, George Kelly's name
was cleared in 2003 after an independent commission reviewed his case and
referred it back to the courts.
There is no such commission to consider the case of
Dec. 14
CALIFORNIA:
The Repentant Criminal Stanley Williams Has Been Executed in California
Stanley Tookie Williams, sentenced to death for the murder of 4 people
in 1979, was executed at San Quentin Prison Tuesday, December 13, after
midnight, by lethal injection.
The day before, the
Dec. 13
CALIFORNIA:
Williams' death doesn't end debate on life
The argument over whether convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams was a
man of peace or a death-row con artist raged on after his execution
Tuesday, with supporters announcing they would give him a funeral
befitting a
