Sept. 19
PAKISTAN:
Supreme Court delays hanging of mentally-ill man
Supreme Court on Monday delayed for 1 week the execution of a man who had been
declared insane by government doctors, after rights groups urged the government
to halt the hanging.
"A mentally ill prisoner who was due
Sept. 19
PENNSYLVANIA:
Prosecutors won't learn why Easton murder suspect granted new lawyersTold
he could face death penalty, Easton homicide defendant has outbursts in court
Prosecutors won't learn why Easton murder defendant Jeffrey S. Knoble Jr. was
granted new lawyers - at least
Sept. 19
PAKISTAN:
Mentally ill death row inmate Imdad Ali to be executed tomorrow
Pakistan must not hang a mentally ill man suffering from paranoid
schizophrenia, a rights group said, after a court issued a warrant for his
execution next week.
Death row prisoner, Imdad Ali, who is a
Sept. 19
EUROPEAN UNION/PHILIPPINES:
EU joins call for halt to killings in drug war
The European Union has joined the global call on the Philippine government to
"put an end to the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings" of
drug suspects.
Alarmed at the rising death to
Sept. 19
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Threat of death penalty will not stop drug dealers
Regarding the front-page article in about imposing the death penalty on
individuals who sell what turns out to be lethal doses of heroin or related
substances (Sunday Monitor front page, Sept. 11): I do not obje
