[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2017-01-15 Thread Rick Halperin
jan. 15 CHINA: China to formulate judicial exclusionary rule of illegal evidence China will formulate and issue a judicial interpretation on the throwing out of illegally-obtained evidence. At a meeting attended by the heads of higher people's courts nationwide on Saturday, courts w

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2017-01-15 Thread Rick Halperin
Jan. 15 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Murder must have deadly consequences The year 2017 has not got off to a good start in terms of murders. The numbers continue to grow, with more murders occurring than days - about 15 as at the 13th. There's no letting up from where we left off in last year.

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----OHIO, UTAH, WASH., USA

2017-01-15 Thread Rick Halperin
Jan. 15 OHIO: Ohio seeks drug reversing lethal injection process if needed Ohio's prisons agency is trying to obtain a drug that could reverse the lethal injection process if needed by stopping the effects of another drug previously used in problematic executions. The request to use

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, PENN., VA., W.VA., N.C., S.C.

2017-01-15 Thread Rick Halperin
Jan. 15 TEXAS: DNA evidence to be analyzed again in death penalty case appeal A lawyer for Steven Thomas, who faces the death penalty after being convicted of capital murder in Williamson County, says some of the DNA evidence presented at the trial was false, according to court documen