[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, CONN., OHIO, USA

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Halperin
Nov. 10 TEXASimpending execution Houston killer, lawyer at odds on defense strategy as execution date nears A lawyer-client wrangle over defense strategy Friday threw a kink into an effort to save Houston double-killer Preston Hughes III from execution on Nov. 15 by challenging

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----N.C., ALA., CALIF., PENN.

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Halperin
Nov. 10 NORTH CAROLINA: No one sentenced to death in North Carolina this year As North Carolina politicians engaged in rigorous debate this year about whether capital punishment should exist, the juries that actually decide death-penalty cases made a statement of their own. No jury

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Halperin
Nov. 10 INDONESIA: Yudhoyono Defends Clemency Gaffe, Says He's Been 'Very Selective' President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defended on Friday his decision to grant clemency to drug convict Meirika Franola, who was found to still be running a drug business from her prison cell after the