April 28
INDIA:
Tamil Nadu: 5 get death penalty for Polur hooch tragedy
The District Sessions Court in Tiruvannamalai on Friday awarded death penalty
to 5 persons on the charge of mixing poison in arrack which resulted in the
death of 13 people in Polur on May 23, 2000. According to
April 28
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
The death penalty continues to slowly die.
Lawmakers in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday
overwhelmingly passed a bill, already approved by the state Senate, to replace
capital punishment with life-without-parole sentences. New Hampshire
April 28
INDIANA:
Baumgardt keeps quiet at death penalty hearing
Anthony Baumgardt, the 21-year-old Lebanon man that is charged with murdering
Boone County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Pickett, had little to say in court Friday
morning.
The shooting of Pickett on March 2 followed a car
