Oct. 13
TEXAS:
DNA exonerations cast doubt on eyewitnesses
Newspaper: Faulty eyewitness testimony helped secure wrongful convictions
Dallas County leads the nation in DNA exonerations
All but 5 faulty convictions occurred under ex-District Attorney Henry
Wade
We know that eyewitness
Oct. 13
USA:
Life after death row
In 1992 Ray Krone, a former sergeant in the US Air Force, was sentenced to
death row for the murder of Kimberly Ancona, a bar manager found stabbed
to death in a restaurant near his home in Arizona. 10 years later, after
running newly developed DNA tests
Oct. 13
VIETNAM:
Vietnam grants clemency to Australian drug runners
Vietnam will grant clemency to 2 Australians facing execution in Hanoi
for drug smuggling, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on
Monday after talks with his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd.
Dung, in
Oct. 13
IRAQ:
Executions rampant in IraqDeath 'penalties' prompted by rivalry
The death penalty in Iraq was suspended after Saddam Hussein was deposed
in 2003. But a year later it was reinstated by the interim government.
Since that time, claims Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk,
Oct. 14
INDONESIA:
Bali bombers to die 'within 2 weeks'
THE execution by firing squad of the Bali bombers - Mukhlas, Imam Samudra
and Amrozi - is set to occur within the fortnight.
A spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney General announced yesterday he would
reveal the precise details of
