[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2017-05-06 Thread Rick Halperin
May 6 GAMBIA: Does Gambia Need The Death Penalty? Justice Hassan Babucarr Jallow, is back as the Chief Justice of The Republic of The Gambia. It was he who, as Attorney General and Minister of Justice back in the 1980s abolished the death penalty in The Gambia. I am sure he is poised

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, PENN., DEL., WYO., ARIZ., CALIF., USA

2017-05-06 Thread Rick Halperin
May 6 TEXAS: State's Narrow Disability Definition Resulted In Unconstitutional Death Sentence In 1985, Pedro Solis Sosa was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing a sheriff's deputy in Wilson County. Prosecutors alleged that Sosa killed Ollie Childress Jr. with the officer's