Oct. 4
IRAN:
Iran, Which Executed Nearly 1,000 Last Year, Considers Cutting Back
Iran, which puts more people to death every year than any other country in the
world but China, is debating a measure that could significantly cut the number
of executions, local news outlets reported on
Oct. 4
NEW MEXICO:
After few revisions, death penalty bill heads to full House
Republican lawmakers took another step Monday night towards reinstating the
death penalty in New Mexico.
Members of the House Finance and Appropriations Committee voted 8-6 along party
lines to send the
Oct. 4
INDONESIA:
Death row prisoners in limbo in Indonesia after unexplained stay of execution
A condemned Pakistani man has spoken of his suffering as his life remains in
limbo more than 2 months after he was mysteriously spared from an Indonesian
firing squad.
Garment trader
Oct. 4
TEXAS:
Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate's plea for DNA testing in murder
case
The Supreme Court will not allow additional DNA testing of evidence a death row
inmate in Texas says could show he didn???t kill a suburban Houston college
student.
The justices on
