March 31
TEXAS:
Jury selection resumes in Petetan capital murder trial
Jury selection in the death penalty murder trial of Carnell Petetan Jr. is
proving to be more difficult than in similar recent cases.
9 jurors have been chosen in the 4 weeks of jury selection. The process will
March 31
PAKISTAN:
Musharraf pleads not guilty to treason
Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf, on Monday pleaded not guilty to
5 counts of treason, in the latest chapter of a long-running drama between the
country's increasingly assertive judiciary and its former military
March 31
EGYPT:
UN rights experts denounce mass death sentences as 'mockery of justice'
A group of 8 United Nations human rights independent experts today urged the
Egyptian authorities to quash the 529 death sentences announced in Egypt last
week and give the defendants new and fair
March 31
TEXAS:
Mexican national on Texas death row loses appeal at Supreme Court; Ramiro
Hernandez condemned for 1997 of Glen Lich at Kerrville-area ranch
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a 44-year-old Mexican
national set to die next week for the beating
March 31
MISSISSIPPI:
Court reverses Byrom capital murder conviction
The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned Michelle Byrom's capital murder
conviction and has ordered a new trial.
Byrom was sentenced to die for the shooting death of her husband at his Iuka
home in 1999.
The
