April 26
TEXAS:
Texas Prosecutor and Ex-Governor Agree: No Death Penalty for Being Black. The
Texas prosecutor who won the death penalty against Duane Buck now says Buck
deserves a new sentencing hearing. What's the holdup?
Former Harris County, Texas, prosecutor Linda Geffin had no
April 26
SOUTH CAROLINA:
State will seek death in Melton trial; Brutal slaying of Kershaw County woman
expected to go to court early next year
The state will seek the death penalty in the case of a man arrested and charged
in the rape and beating death of a Kershaw County woman in
April 26
OKLAHOMAnew execution date
Execution date set for OSP death row inmate
An execution date has been set for an Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row
inmate.
James Lewis DeRosa, 36, is set to be executed June 18 at 6 p.m. by lethal
injection in OSP's death chamber.
April 26
AUSTRALIA:
Rope in the Noose
The reputation of Melbourne took a pounding in 2012 with the tragic murders of
Jill Meagher, Sargun Ragi and Sarah Cafferkey in the space of a few months. It
clearly raises the question of whether capital punishment should be reinstated
as the
April 26
ARKANSAS:
Arkansas Death Row Inmates Claim New Execution Law Is Unconsitutional
Arkansas' just-approved execution law is as badly flawed as the version it
replaced, according to a lawsuit filed Friday, which argues the new law's
protocols are unconstitutional and puts inmates
April 26
INDIA:
HC upholds death sentence of woman, lover who kill
The Allahabad High Court today upheld the death sentence awarded to a young
woman and her lover for hacking to death the former's parents, 2 brothers and
their wives besides strangulating her 10-month-old nephew in
