Dear Friends,
It is with great sadness that I share this news with you. David Wycoff,
Assistant Federal Defender
in the Pennsylvania Capital Representation Project, died suddenly this weekend.
A lawyer with a PhD
in physics, David was a brilliant person with years of distinguished service
Jan. 7
ARKANSAS:
Death penalty sought in Ark. slaying
A prosecutor said Monday he plans to seek the death penalty for an Arkansas man
accused of killing a 6-year-old neighbor who already had been the victim of
abuse by her father and stepmother.
Zachary Holly is charged with capital
Jan. 7
IRAN:
Kurdish brothers to be executed by Iranian government
According to information ANF Kurdish service obtained from local sources in the
East Kurdistan city of Sine, two jailed Kurdish politicians, brothers Lokman
and Zanyar Muradi, will be executed by the Iranian regime in
Jan. 7
TEXASimpending female execution
Texas woman set to die loses at US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the case of a Texas woman who
faces execution later this month for the fatal stabbing and bludgeoning of a
retired college professor.
The high c
Jan. 7
INDIA:
New Delhi gang-rape suspects appear in court, could face death penalty
5 men accused of the gang rape and murder of an Indian student appeared in
court on Monday to hear charges against them, after 2 of them offered evidence
possibly in return for a lighter sentence in
Jan. 7
USA:
Guantanamo is a place of sometimes puzzling secrecy
When victims of al-Qaida attacks want to talk to reporters at Guantanamo,
retired Navy Capt. Karen Loftus squires the so-called "victim family members"
to Camp Justice's press shed and introduces herself as their escort.
Jan. 7
VIRGINIAimpending execution
A killer in our midst faces execution
A Colonial Heights man who once ran a tattoo parlor is set to die later this
month.
Robert Gleason Jr., 42, is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 16. Gleason has
killed 3 people including strangling 2 inmates
