March 23
NIGERIAimpending execution
3 years after, killer of 11 police to die by hanging
The Oporoma Judicial Division of the High Court in Bayelsa State has sentenced
to death by hanging 1 of the killers of the 11 policemen at Lobia 2 community
in Southern Ijaw Local Government Ar
March 23
TEXAS:
With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man
Adam Kelly Ward, a severely mentally ill Texas man sentenced to death for the
2005 murder of 44-year-old Michael Walker, was executed Tuesday evening by
lethal injection. Ward, 33, was the 9th
March 23
TEXAS:
Honduran man on Texas death row loses federal appeal
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Honduran man on Texas
death row for beating and strangling a Houston woman during a robbery at her
home more than 20 years ago.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
March 23
PAKISTAN:
Since lifting of moratorium: 353 convicts hanged since Dec 2014, SC told
The federal government on Tuesday informed the top court that 353 death-row
prisoners have been hanged in the country after the lifting of moratorium on
capital punishment in the wake of a massa
March 23
ALABAMA:
Mother, boyfriend, charged in 22-month-old's death
Shannon Dale Gargis took a long breath and let out a sigh when Franklin County
District Judge Paula McDowell told him he would face the death penalty.
Seconds later, standing in front of McDowell, dressed in a black-