death penalty news
April 14, 2005
USA:
Execution by injection far from painless
Execution by lethal injection may not be the painless procedure most
Americans assume, say researchers from Florida and Virginia.
They examined post-mortem blood levels of anaesthetic and believe that
prisoners
April 14
INDONESIA/AUSTRALIA:
Australian facing death sentence in Bali collapses during drug trial
An Australian woman facing the death penalty in Indonesia for alleged drug
smuggling collapsed in court on Thursday as prosecutors were ready to make
their sentence recommendation to the
April 14
KENTUCKY:
Judge denies killer's requestSt. Clair asked Waller to withdraw from
resentencing
Convicted murderer and death-row inmate Michael Dale St. Clair, who is
scheduled to be resentenced this summer, tried without success yesterday
to have Bullitt Circuit Judge Thomas
April 14
TEXAS:
Ronald Ray Howard has been given an execution date of Aocotber 6; it
should be considered serious.
(sources: TDCJ Rick Halperin)
Texas Senate approves life-without-parole option
The Senate approved today a bill that would give juries the power to
April 14
CALIFORNIA:
Buddhism Behind Bars
Jarvis Jay Masters may be the most talented North Bay writer you've never
heard of. If his work has indeed passed you by, perhaps it has something
to do with his address: San Quentin's death row, where he has resided
since 1990, after being
April 15
INDIA:
SC upholds death penalty for soldier
To teach a lesson for challenging his supremacy in a village in Assam,
Holiram Bordoloi, a soldier who killed 3 - a man and his 6-year-old son by
throwing them into fire and the man's elder brother by cutting him into
pieces - in broad
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April 16
TEXAS:
One more option
A bill in the Texas Legislature that may lead to fewer executions was
thought to be out of hope this session, thanks to the recent full-court
press by many of the state's district attorneys.
But this week, a true life-without-parole bill got a reprieve in
April 16
CALIFORNIA:
Graveyard ShiftAn increasingly conservative 9th Circuit is growing
less receptive to capital claims
It used to be that a capital habeas corpus petition at the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals was a gimme: California death row inmates could
pretty much count on
April 16
ILLINOIS:
Judge gives prosecutors more time to consider death penalty
A proposed law that would require a judge or jurors to be convinced
evidence leaves no doubt of a defendant's guilt before imposing the
death penalty could determine whether a Bloomington man's life is at
April 16
BANGLADESH:
Bangla court hands down death penalty to 22 in MP murder case
22 people were today awarded death penalty and 6 others life sentence by a
special Bangladesh court for the assassination of a popular MP of the main
Opposition Awami League.
Judge Shahed Nooruddin of the
April 17
TEXASimpending executions
2 Texas inmates set to die on same night
The nation's busiest death chamber could be administering a double dose of
lethal drugs on Wednesday with 2 condemned killers set to die then.
Douglas Roberts, 42, faces execution for the abduction and
April 17
WISCONSIN:
An artist at home with rangeMultimedia show corrals all of musician's
passions
Jon Langford is best known for heading up the Mekons, a truly legendary
punk-rock band, for more than a quarter-century. But the Welsh expatriate
- a resident of Chicago since 1991-
April 17
TENNESSEE:
Man faces death, but case not adding upDNA evidence tells new story of
20-year-old crime
Paul Gregory House waits on Tennessee's death row, smoking cigarettes and
watching TV from his wheelchair in the prison clinic, with no faith in his
appeal to the U.S. Supreme
April 17
IRANexecution
Rapist hanged in public
An Iranian convicted of raping and abducting more than 40 schoolgirls was
hanged in public on Saturday but his teenage son accomplice was reprieved,
the local press reported.
Mousa Ali Mohammadi, 40, was hanged in a central square in
April 18
INDONESIA/AUSTRALIA:
Corby 'won't be given death penalty'
The defence team representing accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby say
prosecutors will ask for a life sentence and a fine of $133,000 when the
trial resumes this week.
They would not seek the death penalty, Corby legal
death penalty news
April 18, 2005
INDONESIA:
Aussies face the death penalty in Bali
Nine Australians arrested in a dramatic Bali heroin bust will face a firing
squad if convicted of trying to smuggle drugs out of Indonesia and into
Australia, the head of the island's police anti-drugs squad
death penalty news
April 18, 2005
KENTUCKY:
Ruling stirs debate on what to do with young killers
Before he raped and strangled a 9-year-old Philadelphia girl, Kevin Hughes
had been a tyrannized child who needed help.
His drug-addicted and mentally ill mother used him as a sexual toy when
April 18
KENTUCKY:
Lethal injection faces fight from condemned
A Kentucky case that begins today is the latest legal challenge to lethal
injection, the nation's most used but increasingly controversial form of
execution.
Lethal injection is under assault from condemned convicts across
April 18
FLORIDA:
Man Is Charged With Killing Florida Girl, 13
A registered sex offender confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl who
disappeared a week ago, saying he got into an argument with her and choked
her in her house, the sheriff said Sunday.
David Onstott, 36, was charged with
April 18
INDONESIA:
Support up for proposal to scrap death sentence
The proposal to reduce the death sentence to life imprisonment in cases
where a convict has not been executed 5 years after their verdict was
handed down has won support among lawyers and legal experts.
I personally
April 18
TEXAS:
El Paso Senator Speaks Out On No Parole Decision
Texas juries may soon have a new choice when deciding the punishment for
defendants convicted of capital murder.
The senate has approved legislation to allow juries to sentence murderers
to life in prison without parole.
El
April 18
ALABAMA:
Appeals court to review Epps murderJames Barber case to go before
panel in Birmingham
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals will hear oral arguments in
Birmingham this week in the case of convicted murderer James Barber of
Huntsville.
The 5-judge panel will convene
April 18
TEXAS:
Attorneys to request DNA testing in case of executed man
Defense attorneys on Tuesday plan to ask Texas Gov. Rick Perry to order
DNA testing in the case of a man executed nearly 5 years ago, when George
W. Bush was governor, saying the testing might help determine if an
death penalty news
April 19, 2005
USA:
Lethal injection faces fight from condemned
A Kentucky case that begins today is the latest legal challenge to lethal
injection, the nation's most used but increasingly controversial form of
execution.
Lethal injection is under assault from condemned
death penalty news
April 19, 2005
INDONESIA / AUSTRALIA:
Australia accused of exporting death penalty over drug arrests in Bali
A rights group Tuesday challenged the Canberra government to say whether it
is exporting the death penalty after Australian police aided in the
arrest of nine
death penalty news
Apirl 19, 2005
TEXAS:
Senator eyes more power for new panel -- Council would be able to probe
innocence claims under Ellis' substitute bill
Sen. Rodney Ellis wants to put some teeth into Gov. Rick Perry's recently
created Criminal Justice Advisory Council by giving the
death penalty news
April 19, 2005
KENTUCKY:
Bench trial opens on Kentucky's execution method
Eddie Lee Harper either suffered little and died peacefully or was still
awake and possibly in pain when he was executed in May 1999.
Harper's death was the focus of testimony yesterday in the first
death penalty news
April 19, 2005
SAUDI ARABIA:
PBS revisits controversial 1977 execution
PBS has had its tote bags in a wringer too many times to count over the
years. Yet despite hassles over public television allegedly being too
liberal, too British and too expensive, there never has
April 19
TEXAS --- impending executions
Texas court blocks 1 of 2 executions set for Wednesday
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted one of the 2 executions set for
Wednesday when it granted a reprieve to condemned inmate Milton Mathis,
whose lawyers contended may be mentally
April 19
MISSOURI:
Attorney's heroism saved a life
Forgive Joe Amrine for missing last week's meeting of Move Up.
The former death-row inmate was to have spoken at Move Up's monthly
crime-prevention meeting last Tuesday. Instead, he was tied up speaking
before the United Nations in
April 19
USA:
Lethal injection faces fight from condemned
A Kentucky case that begins today is the latest legal challenge to lethal
injection, the nation's most used but increasingly controversial form of
execution.
Lethal injection is under assault from condemned convicts across the
April 19
ILLINOIS:
Ryan fights subpoena seeking testimony on pardons
Former Gov. George Ryan is fighting an attempt to force him to explain why
he decided death row inmate Madison Hobley was innocent and freed him in
2003.
Ryan's latest court battle comes in a lawsuit Hobley brought
April 19
INDONESIA:
Death by firing squad is rarely fast
For death row inmates in Indonesia, execution usually comes on a deserted
beach or remote jungle at the hands of a paramilitary firing squad.
And, it rarely comes fast.
Under the direction of the prosecutor's office and after
death penalty news
April 20, 2005
WORLD:
Anti-death penalty course likely to persist
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE CHURCH
The new pope was a key adviser to John Paul II, who condemned a 'culture of
death'
Catholic leaders and scholars said Tuesday that they expect that new Pope
death penalty news
April 20, 2005
PENNSYLVANIA:
Jury chooses death penalty in hatchet killing
After deliberating for only 2 1/2 hours, a Clinton County jury sentenced a
woman to die Tuesday for murdering her elderly neighbor with a hatchet in 2003.
Shonda Walter, 25, sat quietly as the
death penalty news
April 20, 2005
OHIO:
Killer escapes death penalty
After he was sentenced Tuesday to life without the possibility of parole,
Javon Byrd wanted a bond for a robbery charge pending against him.
I want to get my appeal bond so I can get up out of here, Byrd said in a
tone
death penalty news
April 20, 2005
SOUTH KOREA:
Public Statement
AI Index: ASA 25/003/2005 (Public)
News Service No: 097
20 April 2005
Death penalty abolition -- historic opportunity
Amnesty International urges members of the Legislation and Judiciary
Committee (LJC) in the 17th National
April 20
TEXAS:
High court halts execution set for todayPanel says that the
possibility of retardation must be investigated
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday halted the execution of a
Houston man after his attorneys raised claims he is mentally retarded.
The court said
April 20
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Death penalty 'off the table' in killing -- Federal prosecutors reviewed
case of 2003 drug informant shooting
Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against 3 York County
men accused in the shooting death of a Rock Hill drug informant in 2003.
The
death penalty news
April 20, 2005
MISSOURI:
Ban on execution sought by group - The supporters hope to reduce the risk
of wrongful executions.
Paul Hinshaw has opposed the death penalty since it was reinstated in
Missouri in 1989. After years of working in the low-income housing
business,
April 20
TEXAS:
Tex. Pressed on DNA ExonerationsGroup Is Urged to Probe Cause of
Erroneous Murder Convictions
In the state with the nation's busiest death row and an increasing number
of post-conviction DNA exonerations, legislators are urging the governor
to investigate the causes
April 20
CALIFORNIA:
Former Prosecutor: Revenge Not at Heart of Bias Claims
Ask him and John Jack Quatman will tell you he's in favor of the death
penalty.
But the former Alameda County, Calif., prosecutor says he's still haunted
by the 1st man he sent to death row.
His pity is for
April 20
ARIZONA:
DNA test upsets death conviction
New DNA testing has cast enough doubt to overturn the conviction of a
death-row inmate who has spent 15 years trying to prove his innocence.
Clarence David Hill, 56, was condemned for the 1989 murder of his
landlord, Dale Edmundson, who
April 20
TEXASexecution
Texas inmate who acknowledged murder executed
Douglas Roberts was convicted of a San Antonio murder.
A convicted murderer who said he first tried cocaine at age 10 was
executed Wednesday evening for abducting and fatally stabbing a San
Antonio man whose car
April 21
USA:
When a Killer Wants to Die -- Death-row volunteers press for their own
speedy executions. Should states oblige them?
For someone who killed with such ease, Michael Ross is finding it very
hard to die. The bespectacled insurance salesman from Connecticut who
murdered eight
April 21
CALIFORNIA:
Eroding the Death Penalty
None of the 32 murderers sentenced to death in New York has been executed
in the decade since the state reinstated capital punishment. Yet last
week, the gnawing concerns of state lawmakers, including some who voted
for the 1995 law,
April 21
INDONESIA/AUSTRALIA:
Corby escapes death sentence
A distraught Schapelle Corby has screamed and cried after Balinese
prosecutors asked an Indonesian court to convict her and jail her for
life.
Prosecutor I Bagus Wiswantanu told the Denpasar District Court that Corby,
arrested
April 21
PENNSYLVANIA:
PA Governor Rendell Signs Execution Warrant
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell today signed a warrant for the
execution by lethal injection of Joseph Carmen D'Amato of Philadelphia
County.
D'Amato's execution is scheduled for Thursday, June 16.
On February
April 22
OHIO:
Supreme Court Appeal over Death Row Briton
US prosecutors will bring the case of death row Scot Kenny Richey before
the Supreme Court in a final bid to quash the decision to overturn his
conviction, it emerged today.
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has filed a stay with
April 22
TEXAS:
Committee backs move to expand crime panel -- Senator wants group to
review innocence claims, but Perry says that's not the focus
A Senate committee approved Sen. Rodney Ellis' bill Thursday to expand a
gubernatorial crime commission to investigate claims of innocence by
April 22
INDIANA:
Protesters: All killing is wrong
As a retired correctional officer at the Indiana State Prison, Martin
Hayes opposed the death penalty but that didnt keep him from doing his
job.
Working with Indianas death-row inmates, he saw firsthand the men waiting
to die.
I
April 22
VIRGINIA:
Virginia Supreme Court affirms sniper's death penalty
In Richmond, the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the death
penalty for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.
If society's ultimate penalty should be reserved for the most heinous
offenses, accompanied by
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April 22
TEXASlegislation to expand state death penalty law
Bill seeks death penalty for murderers of judges
Any person who murders a judge in Texas could receive the death penalty if
found guilty, according to a provision approved Thursday by the Senate
Criminal Justice Committee.
April 23
AUSTRALIA:
JOHN HOWARD RESPECTS DEATH PENALTY
To be an unfortunate person in a country, which uses the death penalty for
certain crimes, is to assume more respect from the Australian Prime
Minister John Howard, than our founding fathers might have ever imagined.
Everyone has
April 23
NEVADA:
Nevada court rejects death penalty notice
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled there were several flaws in a
prosecution notice of intent to seek the death penalty against a man
accused of suffocating a mentally handicapped woman in Henderson.
The court says Clark County
April 23
YEMEN:
Yemeni Court Upholds Death Sentence
A Yemeni court on Saturday upheld the death sentence of a Muslim extremist
convicted of assassinating a prominent politician in 2002 and helping to
plot an attack that killed 3 American missionaries in a hospital days
later.
The
April 23
PENNSYLVANIA:
Staruh wants more aid
A North Newton Township mom accused of killing her 3-year-old son was in
Cumberland County Court Friday requesting a 2nd attorney, court-appointed
experts and 2 juries.
If a jury finds her guilty of first-degree murder, Candice Marie Staruh,
April 24
TEXAS:
To be just, juries require life-without-parole option
In contrast to the achievements about which Texans can be proud, leading
the nation in executions is a distinction the state can do without.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Texas
April 24
CALIFORNIA:
Ryen makes case for Cooper's death
A judge on Friday denied the appeals that have kept death row inmate Kevin
Cooper alive for the past 14 months, ruling that he failed to prove his
claims that police framed him for a 1983 hatchet massacre in Chino Hills.
In a
April 24
PENNSYLVANIA:
Death row loneliness lies ahead for womanMother to join 5 others for
her hatchet murder of Lock Haven man, 83
Shonda Walter will most likely never hug her daughter again.
In fact, the 25-year-old single mother could finish her life without ever
touching
April 24
ARIZONA:
Flashy lawyers leave private practice for public defender jobs
Robert Hooker was hired to lead the Public Defender's Office, not dress it
up, but the sartorially elegant Hooker believes in the power of
appearances.
He moved his own leather chairs, Oriental rug,
April 24
TRINIDAD TOBAGO:
Enforce death penalty too, says Deosaran
What about the death penalty?
This is the question being asked by Prof Ramesh Deosaran in response to
Prime Minister Patrick Manning's announcement on Friday night that the
Government would be seeking to reintroduce
April 25
IOWA:
Majority of Iowans back death penalty
A new poll shows a rise in support after the rape and murder of a
10-year-old Cedar Rapids girl in March.
2/3 of Iowans want to bring back the death penalty - an emotionally
charged issue that has resurfaced at the Statehouse as
April 25
USA:
From death row, to vindication, to voice for justice
For nearly 9 years, Kirk Bloodsworth slept with toilet paper stuffed in
his ears to keep the cockroaches from laying eggs inside his head. In the
darkness of his tiny cell in the notorious Maryland State Penitentiary,
April 25
TEXAS:
Deaths haunt Pear Ridge
2 killing sprees in 7 years have not discouraged residents of the Pear
Ridge neighborhood who still feel their section of Port Arthur is a good
place to live.
It is quiet, said Floyd Doise, 58, who is retired and lives on Sixth
Street. For the
April 25
NEW MEXICO:
Indigent defense spreads to N.M. -- Financial cost racking justice system
This isn't exactly a news flash - the New Mexico justice system is in
serious trouble because of the escalating cost of indigent defense.
According to state Supreme Court Justice Richard
April 25
BOTSWANA:
The Lady Boss Of Prisons
Elizabeth Masire has made history at the Prisons Department. She is the
1st woman deputy commissioner of prisons and rehabilitation. She maintains
that her rise to the top was based on merit and not gender.
She is opposed to the appointment of
April 25
TEXAS;
U.S. High Court Won't Reinstate Death Penalty for Retarded Man
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate the death penalty for a
mentally retarded Texas man who was sentenced before the justices barred
executions of retarded people in 2002.
The justices, acting without
April 25
USA:
Death Sentences at Lowest Point Since 1976
The number of people sentenced to death last year fell to the lowest level
since the Supreme Court reinstated the penalty in 1976.
There were 125 people sent to death row in 2004, down from 144 the
previous year and the 6th
April 25
CALIFORNIA:
S.J. killers appeals nearly exhaustedMorales, who raped, murdered girl
in 1981, may be close to execution
Michael Angelo Morales, convicted of raping and killing a Stockton girl
more than 20 years ago, may be just months from execution.
Sentenced to death for
death penalty news
April 26, 2005
TEXAS:
Texas' possible wrongful execution
Of the 341 inmates executed in Texas since 1982, the last words of one man
have echoed particularly loudly in the minds of those involved in deciding
his fate.
Cameron Willingham, of Navarro County in East Texas,
April 26
FLORIDA:
Prosecutors: Weston man killed wife over debts and lust
She shopped at Publix, lunched at Pita King and ran her daughter to the
doctor's office. In between, she talked on the telephone with relatives
and visited an ATM machine to withdraw $20.
But Maria Noguera's
death penalty news
April 26, 2005
USA:
The Death Penalty
A couple posts from the always-valuable Brad Plumer has gotten me thinking
about the Death Penalty.
Before going into this, I should note that 1) in most cases, I have no
moral problem with applying the death penalty to
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YEMEN
Amina Ali Abdulatif (f), aged 21
Muhammad Ali Said Qaba'il (m), aged 26
Amina Ali Abduladif is reportedly scheduled to be
executed on 2 May. She was reportedly sentenced
to death when
April 26
TEXAS:
Convicted killer faces murder warrant in death of McGuire
A Lubbock court issued a capital murder warrant Monday for a convicted
killer suspected in the shooting death of Rex Alan McGuire, according to
the Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney's Office
The U.S.
April 27
MISSOURIexecution
Man is executed for '93 slaying
Donald Jones was executed early today for murdering his grandmother 12
years ago in St. Louis because she wouldn't give him money for drugs.
Jones, 38, was pronounced dead at 12:07 a.m. in the new death chamber at a
April 27
INDONESIA:
Bali 9 'all' face death penalty
All 9 Australians detained in Bali over accusations of heroin smuggling
will face the death penalty if convicted, Indonesian police said today.
The chief of the Bali anti-drug squad Colonel Bambang Sugiarto said all
the nine, not just
April 27
CALIFORNIA:
Using software to model death row outcomes
Convicts on death row can wait for years while appeals are filed and
protests lodged. Many never get beyond this limbo. Others are executed.
What determines the final outcome? That is the question two professors,
one a
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April 27
CONNECTICUT:
Ross Case Endures In Absurdity
Michael Ross' case already had made a mockery of Connecticut's death
penalty. Then the farce got worse when yet another round of psychiatric
evaluations was ordered.
4 shrinks weighed in. 2 - a court-appointed doctor and one hired by
April 28
KYRGYZSTAN:
Bakiyev calls for abolition of death penalty in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan must abolish the death penalty and consider double
naturalization, acting president Kurmanbek Bakiyev said at a
constitutional conference in Bishkek on Thursday.
I suggest that we consider
April 28
TEXAS:
Prosecutors want death penalty in killing of pregnant woman, boy
County prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the case of a Fort Worth
man accused of killing a pregnant woman and her 7-year-old son and then
burying their bodies in nearby Denton County.
Prosecutor
April 28
COLORADO:
The Bible in the jury room: What might Pope John Paul II have said?
Pope John Paul II died days after a ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court
that related indirectly to one of the Polish pontiff's notable innovations
in Catholic teaching.
The Colorado case involved
April 28
ALABAMAexecution
Convicted cop killer executed by lethal injection in Alabama
Mario Centobie had no final statement before his execution Thursday for
the 1998 murder of a Moody police officer.
Centobie, 39, of Biloxi, Miss., was executed at 6:22 p.m. CST. He stared
at the
April 28
MASSACHUSETTS:
Romney files bill to bring back capital punishment
Gov. Mitt Romney filed a bill Thursday that would bring back capital
punishment for people convicted of terrorism, multiple murders and killing
law enforcement officers, using conclusive scientific evidence to
April 29
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT/IRAN:
European Parliament censures Iran rights abuses
The European Parliament adopted a resolution yesterday, calling on Iran to
end its increasing human rights violations.
The EP resolution said that it was very concerned that the human rights
situation has
April 29
KANSAS:
Judge sets death penalty deadline in Cheever case
U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Thursday ordered the Department of
Justice to decide by the end of June whether it will seek execution of the
man accused of killing Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels.
Belot also
April 29
TEXAS:
'Waco Horror' spurs dialogue about past, present
Local residents discussing the very public 1916 lynching of a black
teenager in downtown Waco failed on Wednesday to reach a consensus on the
need for a historical marker commemorating the grisly event, but something
April 29
INDIANA:
Indiana Schedules 3rd Execution This Year
The state Supreme Court has scheduled a May execution date for a man
condemned for the 1985 beating death of an 82-year-old Anderson woman.
40-year-old Gregory Scott Johnson is scheduled to be put to death by
chemical
April 29
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Senate votes to raise minimum age for death penalty
The Senate voted with little discussion Thursday to raise the minimum
execution age in New Hampshire from 17 to 18.
The 16 -8 vote to send the bill to the governor largely was symbolic
because the U.S. Supreme
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SINGAPORE:
Shanmugam s/o Murugesu (m), aged 38,
former taxi-driver and window cleaner
Shanmugam s/o Murugesu is facing imminent execution,
following the rejection of his appeal for clemency
April 30
INDIANAnew execution date
Cop killer execution set for June 22
The Indiana Supreme Court this week set a June 22 execution date for the
convicted killer of a Muncie police officer.
The execution order was issued Thursday, along with the Supreme Court's
rejection of Michael
April 30
FLORIDA:
Split jury recommends death penalty for Gosciminski for 2002 murder -- The
same jury that convicted him of the murder of Joan Loughman voted 9 to 3
Friday that he should be put to death.
Andrew Michael Gosciminski appeared to live a mostly quiet life.
He was a good
April 30
YEMEN:
Mother, 21, faces firing squad -- Leaders plead for a woman who denies
murder and says a rapist prison guard fathered her son
EUROPEAN leaders are making desperate pleas to spare the life of a
21-year-old mother who is expected to face a firing squad in Yemen on
Monday.
May 1
TEXAS:
Hearne man indicted for capital murder--Victim's family asks Milam County
DA not to seek death penalty
The state won't seek the death penalty for a Hearne man accused of killing
two Minerva residents and shooting another.
Ben Contreras, 42, was indicted by a Milam County
May 1
ILLINOIS:
High-stakes Tribune libel trial to start
For the 1st time in nearly 40 years, the Chicago Tribune will go to trial
in a libel case, in which the paper and 2 of its investigative reporters
are accused of tarnishing the reputation of a former DuPage County
prosecutor
May 1
USA:
Round Table TeensTeenagers weigh in on Supreme Court ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that convicts cannot be executed for
crimes committed before they turned 18.
Some members of the 2004-2005 Courier-Journal High School Round Table see
the ruling as a
death penalty news
May 2, 2005
IOWA:
No offenders match criteria in Senate death penalty plan
A Senate Republican plan that would reinstate the death penalty would not
have applied to any of the nearly 600 people serving life sentences in Iowa
if it had been in place when the prisoners were
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