March 30
TEXASfemale may face death sentence
Longview Woman Charged In Child's Death
A Longview woman is charged with killing a 2-year old girl. Police
arrested 31 year old Shondreta Thomas for allegedly hitting and shaking
the child at her home on Rockwood Lane. The girl was airlifted
March 30
CALIFORNIA:
Judge to tour death chamber
A San Jose federal judge will conduct a fact-finding tour of San Quentin's
execution chamber Thursday as he assembles evidence to decide a
constitutional challenge to California's lethal injection procedures.
Over the objections of state
March 30
JAPAN:
Lawyers seek Japan cult guru death sentence appeal
Lawyers for the former leader of a doomsday cult, seeking to save their
client's life, urged a Tokyo court on Thursday to reverse its rejection of
an appeal of a death sentence for the man accused of masterminding a 1995
March 30
VIRGINIA:
Lawyer, Death Row Chaplain Calls Death Penalty 'Disaster'
The American death penalty is a disaster.
Florida lawyer and death row lay chaplain Dale S. Recinella asserted this
thesis in his keynote speech Saturday at the symposium Catholic Teaching
and the Realities of
March 30
TEXAS:
Murder is out; trial goes onProsecutors can't prove fetus was viable
for capital charge
Prosecutors dropped capital murder charges Wednesday against a man accused
of stabbing his girlfriend 17 times, resulting in the death of her fetus.
Prosecutor Mark Skurka said he
March 30
GLOBAL:
An Examination of the Death Penalty Process, with Special Emphasis on
Capital Trials
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Capital Punishment,
Volumes I and II to their offering.
Along with the right to make war, the death penalty is the ultimate
measure of
March 30
RUSSIA:
No Way to Abolish Capital Punishment
For PACE President Ren van der Linden, one of the top concerns in Russia
is to urge the countrys authorities to abolish death penalty. Russia hasnt
sealed the respective sixth protocol to the European Convention on Human
Rights,
