death penalty news
May 2, 2005
MARYLAND:
Death as a penalty
Fewer people are being sentenced to die.
Fewer people are dying at the hands of the state.
Fewer states are in the business of killing criminals.
Has America lost its appetite for state-sponsored execution? The numbers
may not
May 2
OHIO:
Experts: Defendant's mental illness can lead to vote for execution
The trial of the man behind a string of highway shootings that frightened
Columbus-area drivers for months presents jurors with another chance to
decide if a mentally ill murder defendant should be
death penalty news
May 2, 2005
KANSAS --- possible federal trial:
Cheever death penalty deadline set
A 23-year-old man charged in connection with the death of Greenwood
County's sheriff in January of this year was back in U.S. District Court
Thursday.
A scheduling conference for Scott
death penalty news
May 3, 2005
CONNECTICUT:
Ross execution delayed by two days
The state Supreme Court has postponed the execution of serial killer
Michael Ross until May 13, again delaying New England's first scheduled
execution in 45 years.
The 48-hour postponement will allow the court
May 2
MISSOURI:
Prisoners can get an education
This letter is in response to Cutting prison education is foolish, April
27 Our View.
The Missouri Department of Corrections has always been, and will continue
to be, committed to inmate education as a significant factor in an
offender's
May 2
JORDAN:
Jordan executes 3 for murder and theft
Jordan on Monday executed a Palestinian, a Jordanian and an Iraqi
convicted of killing a jeweller during a robbery, a security official
said.
Palestinian Ibrahim Yousef, 25, Mazouz Mohammed, 27, a Jordanian, and
Iraqi national Oras
death penalty news
May 3, 2005
NORTH DAKOTA:
Death penalty challenged
An attorney representing murder suspect Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. says his
client shouldn't face the death penalty because the process to decide
capital punishment cases is unconstitutional.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court
May 3
TEXAS -- impending execution
3-time parolee set to die for fatal beating
3times Lonnie Wayne Pursley was sent to prison. 3 times he was let out on
parole.
A jury in Polk County ensured he wouldn't get out a fourth time when they
decided in 1999 he should be put to death for the
May 3
PUERTO RICO:
2 killers avoid uncommon penalty: death
A federal jury in Puerto Rico sentenced 2 killers to life in prison,
keeping intact a nearly 80-year tradition on the island of not imposing
the death penalty.
In San Juan, a federal jury opted against the death penalty Monday
May 3
IOWA:
Death penalty squabbles continue to divide Senate
A partisan fight over the death penalty threatened Monday to sidetrack a
bipartisan effort in the Iowa Senate to toughen other criminal sanctions
aimed at sex offenders.
Although they disagree on capital punishment, Democrats
May 3
INDIA:
India witnesses spurt in death sentences
The death sentence handed out to Aftab Ansari for the attack on the
American Centre in Kolkata has put the focus back on the rarest or rare
sentences.
There has been significant increase in the number of criminals on death
row over
URGENT ACTION APPEAL UPDATE
3 May 2005
Further Information on UA 87/05 issued 15 April 2005
Fear of imminent execution
IRAN: Abbas Hosseini (m), Afghan national, aged 19
The execution of Abbas Hosseini has been stayed until 8 May
2005. He had been scheduled to be executed on 1 May for a
May 3
CONNECTICUT:
Death penalty issue still alive in General Assembly
The House of Representatives defeated a bill in March that would have
abolished Connecticut's death penalty, but that doesn't mean the debate is
over.
With New England's 1st execution in 45 years looming, the state
May 3
TEXASexecution
Inmate who was paroled three times executed
An apologetic convicted killer Lonnie Wayne Pursley was executed today for
the robbery and fatal beating of an East Texas man while he was on parole
for a 3rd time.
In a final statement, Pursley thanked relatives of
May 4
MASSACHUSETTS/USA:
What's a little execution with presidency at stake?
Just as you will mow the lawn or wash your hair, Gov. Mitt Romney will run
for president. It's the natural order, even if Romney is from
Massachusetts, which has a lousy record of late in the White House
May 4
URGENT ACTION APPEAL
--
3 May 2005UA 106/05 Death penalty
USA/Oklahoma: Garry Thomas Allen (m), black, aged 48
Garry Allen is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on 19 May 2005. He was
sentenced to death for the 1986 murder of Gail Titsworth,
May 4
VIRGINIA:
Moussaoui's Bid to Fire Counsel Rejected
A federal judge on Tuesday denied another effort by admitted terrorist
Zacarias Moussaoui to fire his court-appointed lawyers, though one already
has left on his own.
In a four-page handwritten filing, Moussaoui said his attorneys
May 4
TEXAS:
A 4-year-old girl found stabbed to death behind her Bay City home Friday
has been identified as SanJuanita S. Gaona.
The child's uncle, 20-year-old Francisco Castellano, remains in the Bay
City jail. He is being held without bail on a charge of capital murder.
Under state
May 5
USA:
ONLY HUMAN: Looking for Sparks of Justice
International justice has taken a pasting during the watch of this
administration.
In 2002, President Bush said, We want the United Nations to be effective,
and respectful, and successful. We want the resolutions of the world's
most
May 5
TEXAS:
Camacho to hear findings on mental retardation
As part of a highly-anticipated moment in a high-profile case, mother and
accused murderess Angela Camacho is set to appear in court today to learn
whether a state expert agrees with her defense attorneys claims of mental
May 5
NORTH CAROLINAimpending execution
Supreme Court refuses to halt execution; Easley denies clemency
The nation's highest court declined Thursday to stop the looming execution
of a former Army drill sergeant convicted in the slayings of 4 people,
including a pair of children.
Earl
May 5
UGANDA:
Nakasongola Man Sentenced to Death for Stealing Goat
Court has sentenced a man to death for stealing a goat.
Justice Vincent Kagaba on Tuesday sentenced David Katushabe, alias
Serubombwe, 25, of Wampiti-Wabinyonyi village in Nakasongola district,
after finding him guilty
May 6
TEXASfemale foreign national eligible for death penalty
Camacho eligible for death penaltyState exam shows murder suspect not
mentally retarded
Angela Camacho is now eligible to face the death penalty for allegedly
killing her 3 children after a state report revealed Thursday
May 6
NEVADA:
June 9 execution scheduled at Nevada State Prison
A June 9 execution was scheduled Thursday by Nevada prison officials for
Robert Lee McConnell, 33, sentenced to die for raping his ex-girlfriend
and murdering her fiance.
The former Reno resident has said he won't file any
May 6
TEXAS:
Houston confidence up with employment rateSurvey sees traffic as top
problem for 6th consecutive year
Public confidence in the Houston area's economy and job opportunities has
improved in the past year as the unemployment rate has dropped, the 2005
Houston Area Survey
May 6
TEXAS:
AT THE COURTHOUSEA move to strike jury system; Lawyer is asking fellow
attorneys to join in pressuring judges to make panels more fair
A local defense lawyer says criminal court trials in Harris County are
unconstitutional because juries don't reflect a fair
This week's legislative listing leads with bills that are still alive, a
maybe list, and those that are dead for the session.
Monday, May 9 is the 119th day of the 140 day session, which will adjourn
the night of Monday, May 30.
The big deadline of next week is Thursday, May 12, the last
May 6
PHILIPPINES:
2 cell phone thieves face death for slay of salesman
Now crime does not pay even for cell phone robbers.
A regional trial court here has sentenced to death 2 robbers who divested
their victim of his cell phone and also killed him.
Regional Trial Court Judge Roberto
May 7
VERMONT:
Vermont gets death penalty trial; first in 40 years
- Latest: Vermont, a famously liberal New England state that abolished
capital punishment decades ago, is about to see its 1st death penalty
trial in more than 40 years -- a case brought not by Vermont authorities
but by
May 7
VIRGINIA:
Virginia Governor Orders Review of 150 DNA Cases by Crime Lab
A sharply critical independent audit found Friday that Virginia's
nationally recognized central crime laboratory had botched DNA tests in a
leading capital murder case. The findings prompted Gov. Mark Warner to
May 7
BANGLADESH:
Man hanged for poisoning wife
A man convicted of killing his teenage wife with poison after he failed to
extract dowry payments from her family has been hanged at a jail in
southern Bangladesh, a prison official said yesterday.
Kamal Hossain Hawlader, 26, was hanged
death penalty news
May 10, 2005
CONNECTICUT:
Michael Ross Execution Anti Death March
I am not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be around when it happens,
says Michael Ross.
About two-dozen anti-death penalty campaigners have set out on a 5-day walk
to Somers Prison, Connecticut, to
May 10
VERMONT:
Groups plan vigils at courthouse to protest death sentence
A number of organizations are planning a vigil next week to protest the
death penalty trial getting under way in federal court in Burlington.
Josh Rubenstein of Amnesty International U-S-A says the first vigil
May 10
CONNECTICUT:
Connecticut Supreme Court won't block Ross execution
Connecticut's Supreme Court on Monday struck down another request to
postpone the execution of convicted killer Michael Ross, scheduled to be
New England's first execution in 45 years.
Ross, who was sentenced to
May 10
VIRGINIA:
Case to be reviewed?
It was not known late yesterday whether the controversial death
penalty/DNA case of Derek Rocco Barnabei involved low-level DNA testing
and would be included for review.
In Barnabei's case, DNA testing showed that he had intercourse with the
murder
May 10
YEMEN:
Young mother's execution temporarily stayed
Human rights groups have welcomed a temporary reprieve for a 21-year-old
Yemeni woman who faced execution for the murder of her husband.
The Italian NGO, Ricerca e Cooperazione, which has been working closely
with the young
May 10
TEXAS:
Judges seek court administrator
Seeking more time to hand out justice, Tarrant County criminal judges want
the county to hire a court administrator to take over the expanding list
of administrative duties that draw them away from their courtrooms.
The proposal has put the
May 10
LOUISIANA:
Indigent defense reform is costly
No politician is going to get many votes in Louisiana by promising to
stick up for criminal defendants. So when tax money is doled out in
Louisiana, at either the local or state level, money to hire lawyers for
defendants who can't
May 10
TURKEY:
The European Court of Human Rights will rule on the case of Ocalan this
week.
In the decision to be announced Thursday, it is expected to rule for a
retrial of the terrorist leader. After Ocalan got the death penalty, and
after the death penalty was abolished, in 2002,
May 11
ILLINOIS:
Murder victim's family tells death penalty jury of their pain
As a child, Joyce Brannon carried her younger sister across jagged stones
so they could reach a soft, green patch of grass and play.
Joyce was 20 months older and grew taller and stronger first, her sister
May 11
CALIFORNIA:
Bill would create death row options
San Quentin State Prison's death row inmates could be housed outside Marin
at one of the other nine maximum security facilities across the state
under a bill introduced by Assemblyman Joe Nation.
Nation, D-San Rafael, said Assembly
URGENT ACTION APPEAL
--
11 May 2005
UA 118/05 Fear of imminent execution/torture/ill-treatment
UZBEKISTAN
Nazirzhan Azizov (m), born 1972
Khurshidbek Salaidinov (m), born 1984
Bakhtiorzhan Tuichiev (m), born 1974
The three young men named above are
May 11
USA:
The justices, the soul and a culture of blood -- Can a court demand a
soulful conscience on the part of a defendant and require something less
of themselves?
Christopher Simmons was a junior in high school when he led two younger
boys to the home of Shirley Crook. They bound
May 12
CONNECTICUTimpending execution//volunteer
Final Hours To Include Prayer, Protocol
Michael Ross has already rehearsed the final hours of his life. As he
nears another execution date early Friday, those who know the 45-year-old
serial killer say he will probably try to
May 12
AFGHANISTAN:
News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International
AI Index: ASA 11/006/2005 12 May 2005
Afghanistan: Calling for fair and thorough investigations for crimes
against women
Amnesty International calls on the Afghan government to ensure that
May 12
OKLAHOMAexecution
Miller executed for killing Oklahoma City motel clerk
A man convicted of beating and stabbing an Oklahoma City motel clerk and
pouring acid down his throat was put to death on Thursday.
George James Miller Jr., 37, received a lethal injection of drugs and
May 13
SINGAPOREexecution
Singapore hangs drug trafficker
A Singaporean drug trafficker was hanged on Friday after his teenaged sons
failed in a last-ditch bid to stop the execution, his lawyer said.
Shanmugam Murugesu, 38, was put to death by hanging at 0600 (2200 GMT) in
Changi
death penalty news
May 13, 2005
CONNECTICUT --- execution:
Connecticut Carries Out Its First Execution in 45 Years
Connecticut carried out its first execution in 45 years early Friday,
administering a lethal injection to Michael Bruce Ross, a convicted serial
killer who abandoned his
death penalty news
May 13, 2005
USA:
Abolitionists eye end to death penalty
Serial killer Michael Ross's execution is the first state-sanctioned
killing in New England for 45 years. Across the United States, however,
there are signs America's appetite for the death penalty is on the wane.
May 13
OHIO:
DNA Connects Rape To Death-Row Convict
A death-row convict who gunned down a police officer almost 5 years ago is
now facing rape charges, ONN affiliate WEWS reported.
Quisi Bryan admitted to killing Officer Wayne Leon in 2000 during a
traffic stop.
Bryan now faces charges
May 13
IRAN:
Too little, too late -- Afsaneh Norouzis death sentence and pardon
There is no criminal justice system in the world that can claim
infallibility in determining guilt or innocence. However, in any
democratic society, the justice system must make every effort to ensure
May 13
TEXAS:
Judge allows defendant's statements in murder trial
Jurors in Rodolfo Creeper Medranos upcoming capital murder trial will
hear the alleged Tri-City Bombers recorded interview with police after his
arrest in connection with the Jan. 5, 2003, slayings of 6 men, a judge
ruled
May 13
NEBRASKA:
Death Sentence Reinstated Bataillon ruling overturned
A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated the death sentence of Charles
Jess Palmer for a 1979 murder in Grand Island.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2003 ruling by U.S.
District Judge
May 14
INDIANA:
Ind. court: Inmate can't undo death wish
A death row inmate who said he wanted to be executed and then changed his
mind must abide by his original decision, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled.
In a 3-1 decision, the court said Thursday it would set a date for the
May 14
ENGLAND:
A Conservative MP who was staunchly anti-dpObituaries
Sir Charles MorrisonJune 25, 1932 - May 9, 2005; Landowner and
Conservative MP whose moderate views did not find favour with Margaret
Thatcher
Entering Parliament for Devizes in 1964, 10 years ahead of his
May 14
AUSTRALIA/SINGAPORE:
Singapore has been exposed as the country with shockingly high,
hidden toll of executions, according to Amnesty International
Australia.
On Friday, a drug trafficker at the centre of a high-profile
campaign to end the death penalty was executed in Changi Prison.
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GRANTS REPRIEVE TO 21 DEATH ROW PRISONERS
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has granted a 90-day reprieve
to 21 death row prisoners scheduled for execution. They were
originally due to be executed in April and May, would have their
dates of execution pushed back to
May 18
TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JAPAN
The Kokura Branch of the Fukuoka District Court sentenced two
men to death for murdering two people in January 2002. The court
gave the death penalty to former restaurant owner Masayoshi
Takemoto, 31, and his 47-year-old brother by adoption Tadashi
death penalty news
May 18, 2005
MISSOURI --- execution:
Twice Convicted Killer Executed in Mo.
A twice-convicted murderer who strangled a 9-year-old girl in St. Louis in
1986 was executed early Wednesday after a split vote by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Vernon Brown, 51, was pronounced dead at
death penalty news
May 18, 2005
IRAN:
Iran: Woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution
An Iranian woman was sentenced yesterday to death by stoning in Tehran,
according to a state-run daily.
The young woman, only identified by her first name Fatemeh, 25 years old,
was given two death
death penalty news
May 18, 2005
Dear friends,
in my previous message titled MISSOURI, the penultimate paragraph should
read as follows:
Brown becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death in MISSOURI in
this year, and the 64th overall since the state resumed capital punishment
in
death penalty news
May 19, 2005
TEXAS --- execution:
Texas Carries Out Seventh Execution Of 2005 Wednesday
Death row inmate Bryan Wolfe, 44, was executed just after 6 p.m. Wednesday
in Huntsville for the 1992 slaying of an 84-year-old woman who was stabbed
26 times during a robbery at her
death penalty news
May 19, 2005
TEXAS:
Execution scheduled for Wednesday
Bryan Wolfe is scheduled to die in the state death chamber Wednesday night
for the 1992 robbery and slaying of an 84-year-old Beaumont woman.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up Wolfe's appeal.
Wolfe
death penalty news
May 19, 2005
INDIANA:
Sometimes death penalty seems like the only option
One of the greatest powers a state can possess is the ability to execute
its own citizens. Capital punishment is abused regularly in authoritarian
countries for political purposes, and even in our
May 28
TEXAS:
No Pain, No GainOur solution for saving Texas's claim to capital
punishment fame
Texas death row inmates have gone out in style before -- some have used
their last words to thank the Dallas Cowboys for years of pleasure -- but
on April 20 Douglas Roberts joined the
May 27
TEXAS:
Death penalty case opens door for appeals -- Memorandum encourages courts
to review cases against Mexican citizens
A death penalty case that has received international consideration has
opened the door for appeals in a gruesome 1992 Progreso case.
Brownsville lawyer Larry
May 27
USA:
Owen to join court tough on death penalty
Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen will join a federal appeals
court already dominated by Republican judges with a record of toughness in
death penalty cases but not easy to pigeon-hole on other constitutional
issues.
Owen
May 29
ILLINOIS:
No Doubt law would save innocent
A just and common-sense amendment to the law governing Illinois' death
penalty was recently defeated in a Democrat-controlled Senate committee.
Before the death penalty could be imposed, the bill would have required a
judge or jury to
May 29
NORTH CAROLINA:
Spokeswoman Says Easley Against Death Penalty Moratorium
The apparently growing support for a 2-year hold on executions in North
Carolina has hit a speed bump.
That's because a spokeswoman for Gov. Mike Easley says the former
prosecutor sees no need for a death
May 26
OHIO:
Ohio Supreme Court sets Spirko execution for Sept. 20
John G. Spirko is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 20 for the
1982 kidnapping and stabbing of 48-year-old Betty Jane Mottinger,
postmaster in the small Van Wert County town of Elgin.
The Ohio Supreme Court
May 26
INDIANA:
Execution 3rd in state this year; more expected
Indiana appears certain to execute more prisoners in 2005 than in any year
since the Great Depression, but experts on both sides of the issue call it
a chance occurrence produced by judicial quirks.
The lethal injection
May 26
VIETNAM:
Death penalty upheld in Vietnam's biggest drugs case
A Vietnamese court has upheld death sentences for 16 people in the
country's biggest drug trafficking case.
It was the highest number of death sentences passed in a single trial in
Vietnam.
The court in the southern
May 26
GEORGIA/FLORIDA:
Florida Murder Suspect Climbs Crane, Disrupts Atlanta Traffic
In Atlanta, a man believed to be a Florida murder suspect remained atop an
18-story crane Thursday as authorities continued to try to talk him down.
Florida officials said the man is Carl Edward Roland,
May 26
CHINA:
China has launched a people's war on drug abuse, offering rewards for
information on traffickers, a top official said on Thursday, tackling a
problem that was wiped out after the Communist Party came to power in
1949.
China, which borders the Golden Triangle opium-producing
May 24
INDIANA:
Death sentence tainted, say lawyers for cop killer
A man scheduled to be executed next month for killing a Muncie police
officer deserves clemency, his attorneys say, because the jury improperly
heard family and colleagues give statements about the victim.
Attorneys for
MAY 16
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Court upholds dismissal of NAACP lawsuit
A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed
York County, S.C., police and prosecutors tried to intimidate NAACP
members by questioning them in their homes, following them in cars and
keeping them
May 17
TEXAS:
New ambush trial may move
An upbeat Kenneth Vodochodsky appeared in court Monday for the 1st time
since his release from death row, agreeing with attorneys that his new
trial in connection with one of South Texas' deadliest police ambushes can
be held in Wilson County.
It
MAY 18
TEXASexecution
Man executed for baby sitter's death
A twice-convicted robber from Louisiana was executed Wednesday evening for
the fatal stabbing of his children's 84-year-old baby sitter during a
robbery. Bryan Wolfe expressed love to relatives and friends who were
watching
MAY 19
TEXASexecution
Ex-mechanic executed for robbery, fatal shooting
A former mechanic from Chicago was executed today for the robbery and
fatal shooting of a Corpus Christi man.
In a brief final statement, Richard Cartwright thanked his friends and
family for their support.
I
MAY 20
TEXAS:
Life sentence bill may stall under DA's opposition -- Chuck Rosenthal says
life without parole will lead to fewer pleas and more trials
A Senate bill to give juries the option of life without parole for capital
murder cases has stalled in the House under key opposition from
May 22
TEXAS:
Texas, known for executions, considers option of life without parole
In Texas, the state that leads the nation in executions, lawmakers are
considering an option already available in all but one other death penalty
state: life without parole.
Death penalty opponents think
May 30
TEXAS:
Police to videotape confessionsDallas: Recording of murder suspects to
begin this summer
Dallas police will join a growing number of police departments nationwide
when they begin videotaping murder suspects' confessions later this
summer.
The decision comes on the heels
May 30
LIBYA:
Top EU official in Libya, seeks release of medics
The EU's External Relations chief on Wednesday pressed Libyan Prime
Minister Shokri Ghanem to release 5 foreign medical workers sentenced to
death last year, as both sides seek to improve long-frozen relations.
EU External
May 30
NORTH CAROLINA:
House Committee To Consider Two-Year Moratorium On Death Penalty
The push for a 2-year moratorium on executions could take a major step
forward Tuesday.
A House judiciary committee is set to consider the idea Tuesday morning.
If the bill passes the committee, the
May 31
TEXAS:
Session ends without guidance on death penalty application
At nearly every turn, legislators chose to block or water down efforts to
address the U.S. Supreme Court's concerns about how Texas applies the
death penalty.
Most significant, Texas will still lack a law that
May 31
NORTH CAROLINA:
Judge rejects bid to save cop killer's lifeRuling comes as N.C. House
considers bill to put executions on hold
Charlotte cop killer Alden Harden's latest bid to save his life and get
off North Carolina's death row has failed.
Superior Court Judge Timothy Patti
May 31
ARIZONA:
Lots of attorneys in addicted ranks -- State bar reaches out to aid
abusers of drugs, alcohol
James Miller's addiction could land him in prison.
Rafael Gallego's drug usage resulted in the reversal of a murder
conviction.
2 Southern Arizona lawyers with substance abuse
May 31
GLOBAL:
Amnesty International 2004 Report--117 countries have abolished death
penalty up 5 from 2003.
EXECUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
In 2004, there were at least 3,797 executions in 25 countries around the
world. China, Iran, the United States, and Viet Nam were responsible for
94
May 31
TEXAS2 new execution dates set
The Texas Department of Corrections has set an execution date of June 30
for Charles Hood, and of July 28 for David Martinez. Both dates should be
considered serious.
(sources: TDCJ Rick Halperin)
KANSAS:
Supreme Court to Take Up Death
JUNE 2005 EXECUTION ALERT
Scheduled Executions:
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June 1
TEXAS:
Crime lab faked results in 4 cases, probe findsThe allegations - the
first aimed at HPD's drug unit - could be the harshest yet
Houston Police Department crime lab analysts fabricated findings in at
least four drug cases, an independent investigator reported Tuesday,
June 1
TENNESSEE:
Jury Being Selected In Nashville In Murder Of Officer Julie Jacks
State Seeking Death Penalty Against Isaac Jones
A jury is being selected in Nashville to hear charges against the man
accused of killing Chattanooga Police Officer Julie Jacks in May 2002.
The state
June 1
CHINA:
Reporter May Face the Death Penalty
China accused a Hong Kong-based reporter for Singapore's Straits Times
newspaper of spying for foreign agencies. If convicted, Ching Cheong, 55,
could face the death penalty. He was detained April 22 in the southern
city of Guangzhou.
June 1
ILLINOIS/USA:
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FIGHTING THE DEATH PENALTY: A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE
CAMPAIGN TO END THE DEATH PENALTY'S NATIONAL CONVENTION
NOVEMBER 12-13, 2005 CHICAGO
Bryan Stevenson has agreed to be a keynote speaker at
June 1
KANSAS:
Kansas death law under review again
The Kansas death penalty law may get a reprieve.
Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court said it would review a 2004 Kansas Supreme
Court ruling that declared the state death penalty law unconstitutional.
Attorney General Phill Kline asked the
June 2
TEXAS:
HPD admits it failed to review suspect lab work--Report alleges hundreds
of cases were ignored for 'reasons unknown'
Despite knowing about the suspect work of a crime-laboratory analyst in at
least two drug cases, the Houston Police Department failed to conduct a
review
June 2
TAIWAN:
PROSECUTORS SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRINK POISONING SUSPECT
The man allegedly responsible for spiking energy drinks with cyanide which
resulted in the death of 1 person and the poisoning of 3 others in central
Taichung City was indicted on charges of murder on
June 2
USA/NORTH CAROLINA:
Press Conference10 a.m. June 7, 2005
Community RoomGreensboro Police Station
300 S. Swing Road, Greensboro, N.C.
Death Row Inmates Give $5,000 College Scholarship to Future Police Officer
Death row inmates across the country have raised $5,000 to help
June 2
ALABAMAexecution
Georgia man executed in Alabama for 1984 murder-for-hire
Alabama has executed Jerry Paul Henderson, 58, for the 1984
murder-for-hire death of his sister-in-law's husband.
Henderson was executed at 6:24 p.m. Thursday. In his final words, he said
he was very
June 2
KANSAS:
Kansas ignored warning
Kansas legislators had received ample warning of a flaw in the states
death penalty statute.
Former Attorney General Carla Stovall told lawmakers in 1995 of a problem
with a bill concerning instructions to jurors. They ignored her advice.
In 2001,
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