[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2015-07-15 Thread Rick Halperin
July 15 INDIA: Yakub Memon and 23 other mercy pleas rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee The 1993 Bombay serial blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon is likely to be hanged on July 30 depending on his curative petition in the Supreme Court. Earlier in April 2014, President Pr

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

2015-07-15 Thread Rick Halperin
July 15 TEXASimpending execution Texas inmate set to die Thursday for killing elderly woman When firefighters responded to a call about smoke coming from a home in East Texas, they found the burned body of a 93-year-old woman who lived there alone. Investigators later determined

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----OHIO, MO., NEB., USA

2015-07-15 Thread Rick Halperin
July 15 OHIO: Attorneys for Danny Lee Hill say special prosecutor should handle question of new trial Attorneys for convicted murderer Danny Lee Hill say the Trumbull County Prosecutor's office should be replaced with a special prosecutor as Hill's attorneys ask a visiting judge to gr

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2015-07-15 Thread Rick Halperin
July 15 ISRAEL: Netanyahu Buries Death Penalty Law Slated to go before Ministerial Committee Sunday, death penalty for terrorists bill indefinitely frozen by PM's technical maneuver. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has significantly slowed the advancement of a controversial bill on S