April 30
CALIFORNIA:
Schwarzenegger's crime-time bidThe governor is making a major effort
to mend fences with the correctional officers' union and victims' rights
groups
He fought off a challenge to the state's 3-strikes law, endorsed the
Jessica's Law initiative cracking down on sex
April 29
TEXAS:
COLD CASESA way to answer: Did we kill innocent man? Texas has 2 legal
means to investigate claims
Do Texans have a right to know whether the state has probably executed an
innocent person? Do the families of the murder victim, or the families of
the executed?
Right
April 29
OHIOimpending execution
Taft refuses clemency for Clark
The clock continues to tick for Tuesday's scheduled execution of Joseph
Lewis Clark.
Gov. Bob Taft today rejected arguments that Clark's drug addiction, lack
of discipline growing up after the death of his father, and
April 29
PHILIPPINES:
Death penalty not a crime deterrent
THE Easter Sunday announcement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
commuting all death sentences to life terms has resurrected the debate
over the death penalty.
Leaving aside the legal issues and questions about the real
April 28
CALIFORNIA:
Executions Unlikely for Rest of YearFederal judge orders a delay in
condemned killer Michael Morales' legal challenge to the state's use of
lethal injections.
A legal challenge to California's lethal injection executions has been
delayed until mid-September,
April 28
ILLINOIS:
Report near on alleged '70s police torture
After 4 years and $2.3 million, the special prosecutors appointed to
investigate the claims of police torture made against former Area 3 Police
Cmdr. Jon Burge and others over the years appear ready to issue a report.
April 27
TEXASnew execution date
Robert Anderson has been given an execution date for July 20; it should be
considered serious. (sources: TDCJ Rick Halperin)
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State backs new trial for inmate in 1996 murderAttorneys point to
incompetence and lies, saying 1
April 26
MISSOURI:
Rare federal trial in which death penalty is sought gets under way
As lawyers probed prospective jurors' feelings in a federal courtroom
downtown, Robert L. Bolden Sr. seemed to watch as if his life depends upon
it. Indeed, it may.
This level of jury selection inquiry
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28 April 2006
UA 109/06 Imminent Execution
INDONESIA: Amrozi bin H. Nurhasyim (m)
Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas (m)
Imam Samudera (m)
The three men named above are facing imminent execution. They were
convicted
May 1
TEXAS:
Lethal injection challenges mountPenalty isn't issue - just the drugs
used
When the death penalty was reinstated a quarter century ago, officials
hailed lethal injection as a dignified and relatively painless alternative
to the electric chair, the gas chamber, the gallows
May 1
OHIO:
Longest-serving chief reflects on career
The dean of the nation's prisons chiefs has confronted a long, deadly
riot, the return of executions after a 36-year absence, and a
recession-driven closing of prisons that put hundreds out of work.
What Reginald Wilkinson calls his
May 1
CHINA:
Extradition treaty with Spain rules out execution
CHINA set a precedent as it agreed not to execute repatriated criminals in
an extradition treaty signed with Spain on Saturday. It is the 1st such
treaty China has signed with a developed Western nation.
Legal experts said the
May 1
PHILIPPINES:
Nevada carries out death penalty matter-of-factly
There is no furor at all in Nevada on whether to abolish death penalty or
not, in contrast to the Philippines where the debate was reopened with the
wholesale commutation to life of all death sentences by President
April 30
TEXAS:
Prison guards, prisoners: in Texas, you can't tell 'em apart
The Texas prison system has some of the meanest, hardest criminals on the
planet.
And the convicts are pretty bad, too.
Whom would you rather meet in a dark alley over in Huntsville: a guard, or
an inmate?
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