June 3
SINGAPORE:
111 drug offenders nabbed, 2kg cannabis seized in islandwide raids
The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested 111 suspected drug offenders and
seized drugs worth more than $88,000 in multiple operations throughout
Singapore.
A drug syndicate that distributes
June 3
TEXAS:
Life after death-row case: Both sides search for justice as 22-year Cook saga
ends
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in The Dallas Morning News on
Feb. 21, 1999.
"You cannot put things back together when you inherit a case with material
misconduct," said
June 3
KENYA:
Kenya to abolish death penalty
The death penalty in Kenya could be abolished by 2019.
Chief State Counsel Emily Chweya has said the government is set to undertake
public awareness on the need to abolish death penalty before implementation in
2019.
Chweya said this
June 3
IRANexecutions
Iran hangs man and woman in prison
Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged a man and a woman in a prison in
Qazvin, north-west of Tehran.
The woman was not named, but the office of the regime's prosecutor-general in
Qazvin Province said that she had been
June 3
MISSOURI:
Man charged in 2-state rampage pleads not guilty in Missouri
A Mexican national charged with 5 shooting deaths pleaded not guilty to
1st-degree murder in the death of a Missouri man.
KRCG-TV reports Pablo Serrano-Vitorino entered the plea Wednesday during a
brief
June 3
TEXASfemales to face death penalty
Concert pianist's wife faces death penalty trial after 'smothering' their
1-year-old and 5 year-old daughter with a pillow in TexasSofya Tsygankova
is accused of killing daughters Nika, 5, and Michaela, 1
A Forth Worth mother is
