[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-10-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Oct. 24 PAKISTAN: Schizophrenia and our Supreme Court The recent furore which followed the Supreme Court judgment regarding schizophrenia is not without cause: The Court has concluded that since schizophrenia is "not a permanent mental disorder', it is "therefore, a recoverable disease

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, FLA., Neb., USA

2016-10-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Oct. 24 TEXAS: She watched her husband get sentenced to death. Now she's becoming a lawyer to save him and others. When her boyfriend Juan Balderas was sentenced to death in March 2014, Yancy Escobar Balderas couldn't understand what was happening. She sobbed uncontrollably as the law

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-10-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Oct. 24 INDIA: Heavy workload possible reason for 'serious mistakes' in Soumya case: Markandey Katju Former SC judge Markandey Katju on Monday said the apex court had made some "serious mistakes" in the Soumya case by commuting the death sentence of the accused to life, and attribut

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TENN., CALIF.

2016-10-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Oct. 24 TENNESSEE: The most broken system in Tennessee Need a reason to be against the death penalty? How about a dozen? 1. It's not reliable. Since 1973, a long line of death row inmates have been exonerated, their innocence discovered years after their capital trial, meaning that wh