[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2018-05-05 Thread Rick Halperin
May 5 PAKISTAN: Army chief ratifies death sentences for 11 terror convicts: ISPR Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa ratified death sentences handed down to 11 militants and prison sentences given to 3 others, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release said on Sat

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----MO., ARIZ., ORE., USA

2018-05-05 Thread Rick Halperin
May 5 MISSOURI: Law and orderAttorney general's office must pay $40k for defense team's sleuth in Missouri death-penalty case Lawyers for Pablo Serrano-Vitorino, an undocumented immigrant and Mexican national, say sending an investigator to Mexico to research his childhood and

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, N.H., MASS., PENN., GA., OHIO

2018-05-05 Thread Rick Halperin
May 5 TEXAS: Harris County DA will seek death penalty against MS-13 gang member Omar Torres is facing a capital murder charge Omar Torres was already behind bars when he ordered the hit, police say. The suspected MS-13 gang member was arrested in June 2016 after the brutal slaying of