April 2
TEXASimpending executions
Tommy Lynn Sells' attorney tries to push execution date back
Convicted killer Tommy Lynn Sells' attorney filed a suit in Houston federal
court in a last attempt to block Sells' execution scheduled for Thursday.
Jonathan Ross, Sells' attorney,
April 2
MISSOURI:
Records Sought on Serial Killer's Execution
Courthouse News joined a dozen other media outlets in Larry Flynt's crusade to
unseal court records on the November 2013 execution of Joseph Franklin, a
serial killer who shot and paralyzed Flynt.
Flynt was denied the
April 2
EUROPEAN UNION/EGYPT:
EU criticizes Egypt's mass death sentences
Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy faced criticism against his country for
the death sentences issued to 528 people by the Egyptian Court.
Fahmy spoke at the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Commission on
April 2
TEXASstay of 2 impending executions overturned
Appeals court overturns execution delay
A convicted serial killer is again scheduled for execution on Thursday after a
federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned 1 of 2 rulings by a Houston
federal judge's ruling that
April 2
OHIO:
Anti-capital punishment group's report criticizes selectiveness of Ohio death
penalty law
A report by an anti-death penalty group criticizes the selectiveness of Ohio's
capital punishment law, saying death sentences owe as much to an individual
prosecutor's philosophy
April 2
SRI LANKA:
Sri Lanka Supreme Court upholds death sentence ruling for Angulana double
murder convicts
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court today upheld the death penalty ruling of a lower
court given to the former police officers convicted of killing 2 youths in
2009.
A 5-judge bench
