July 19
GEORGIAexecution
Execution 'worth it' for family, killer says
A Spalding County man was executed Monday for the 1983 kidnapping, sexual
assault and strangulation of his 2-year-old niece, whom he then dumped in
nearby woods.
Eddie Albert Crawford, 57, was pronounced dead at
July 20
PAKISTAN:
Pakistani gets death sentence for murder
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a Pakistani man to
death and another to life in prison after they were found guilty of the
murder of an Indian businessman more than 3 years ago.
A third defendant was
July 20
TEXAS:
Stays linked to new appeal strategies
9 Texas killers' executions have been postponed this year, raising hopes
among capital punishment opponents that new and successful avenues for
appeal may be gaining momentum.
Although the Texas Attorney General's Office does not keep
July 20
ARKANSAS:
High Court Case Highlights Death Penalty for Juveniles
A U.S. Supreme Court case involving executions of criminals who committed
crimes as juveniles could affect Arkansas law.
The case has focused worldwide attention on a practice some world leaders
say violates the
July 20
ALABAMA:
Alabama AG brief opposes juvenile death penalty ban
A U.S. Supreme Court brief filed by Alabama's attorney general argues that
the death penalty should not be banned for juveniles.
Alabama Attorney General Troy King submitted his friend-of-the court brief
in April and
July 20
NEVADAnew execution date
New order signed for Nevada execution
A new warrant was signed Tuesday for the execution of Terry Jess Dennis,
convicted of strangling a woman in Reno.
Dennis, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday, had his
date with death delayed
July 20
CALIFORNIA:
Detective: Unable to rule out other suspects in Peterson case, still
investigating alibis
Scott Peterson's defense lawyer on Tuesday continued to shift the case to
other potential suspects he claims could have killed Laci Peterson, but
authorities failed to check out
July 21
VIRGINIAimpending execution
Clemency Sought for Mentally Ill Va. Killer
A Hampton, Va., man who fatally shot his wife and 2-year-old son suffers
from bipolar disorder and should therefore not be executed tomorrow night,
his attorneys said yesterday.
In their request for
July 21
PAKISTAN:
Hitmen given death for killing SSP activist
An additional district and sessions judge announced the death penalty for
2 hitmen of the outlawed Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) on Tuesday, for
killing an activist of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) in 1996.
Another
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death penalty news
July 21, 2004
UTAH:
Prosecutors Seeking Death Penalty in 1976 Murder
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the man accused in a
28-year-old cold case murder.
Gayle Gilbert Benavidez was charged yesterday with capital murder in the
death of a 24-year-old woman
July 22
BANGLADESH:
5 get capital punishment for double murder in Keraniganj
5 young men were today awarded death penalty, 4 in absentia, by the
district court for murder of a father and his minor son at Keraniganj 11
years ago.
Shafiqul Islam was handed down the death sentence on the
July 22
TEXAS:
Schizophrenic's lawyers will get to fight execution
Lawyers for schizophrenic murderer Scott Panetti will get a chance to
argue in federal court that their client's mental illness makes him
incompetent to be executed.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks on Wednesday denied
July 23
ILLINOIS:
State to seek death penalty
Kane County prosecutors announced Thursday they will seek the death
penalty for Joseph Foreman, the Batavia man who is accused of leading
police on a manhunt after beating his ex-wife into a coma and kidnapping
and killing his former
July 23
OHIO:
It's time for state to stop the killing
Ohio is on a killing spree.
We're on a roll. 2 in 1 week. 6 in one year.
We're 2nd only to Texas this year in the number of executions.
Do you feel safer? Have your taxes gone down? Isn't that what was supposed
to happen once we
July 23
CHINA:
China convicts 52 of baby trafficking, sentences some to death, life in
prison
A court convicted 52 members of a baby-trafficking gang Friday, sentencing
the ringleaders to death or life in prison.
The case included a highly publicized incident in March in which 28 baby
July 23
USA:
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally scheduled a date for arguments in Roper
v. Simmons. This is the juvenile death penalty case out of Missouri.
The case will be argued at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13.
(source: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)
July 23
TEXAS:
Judge rules for Bell, against Chester
Criminal District Judge Charles Carver today recommended to the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals that Walter Bell Jr.'s death sentence be
commuted to life in prison because he is mentally retarded.
Carver found, however, that Elroy
July 26
SINGAPORE:
Singapore death penalty challenged
The death penalty in Singapore will be challenged today as lawyers begin a
court appeal to save an Australian man from the gallows.
Melbourne sales executive Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, has been on death row in
Changi prison since March
July 26
USA:
Shameful superlative -- U.S. leads world in execution of young offenders
A first kiss, a first time behind the wheel, a first college-entrance exam
-- these are the experiences of teen-hood. Death row shouldn't be one of
them.
The United States is one of just five countries
death penalty news
July 26, 2004
ILLINOIS:
A Chilling Look at the Death Penalty
I kept thinking of the Scottsboro Boys while watching Deadline, a new
documentary by filmmakers Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson.
I sensed them looking on with approval as the film illuminated the
July 26
TEXAS:
Punishment Phase Of Murdered Sisters' Trial Resumes--Jurors Convict Man Of
Killing 3 Sisters After Victims' Sibling Ends Relationship
In Houston, the punishment phase of a trial against a man convicted of
killing 3 young sisters will continue Monday.
Anthony Quinn
July 26
NEVADA:
Appeals court hears Nevada death row inmate's case
A federal appeals court was urged Monday to let a Reno lawyer intervene on
a next-friend basis in an effort to block the scheduled Aug. 12 execution
of Terry Jess Dennis for strangling a woman in Reno in March 1999.
A
July 26
CALIFORNIA:
Court overturns death sentence of man who killed his neighbors
The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death sentence of a
Whittier man who in 1986 murdered his next-door elderly neighbors and
burglarized their home.
Larry Lucas killed Mary Marriott,
July 26
INDONESIA:
New law unlikely to affect Bali bombers
Indonesia is likely to proceed with the execution of 3 men convicted for
the Bali bombings in 2002 and continue holding 30 others serving lesser
sentences in spite of a ruling that implied their convictions under a new
terrorism
July 27
PAKISTAN:
The Pakistan connection and the US silence over an execution
Omar Shiekh, a British-born Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged in
Pakistan for a murder he almost certainly didn't commit -- of the Wall
Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Both the US
death penalty news
July 27, 2004
USA:
No longer pushing the death penalty
The Democratic party platform that will be adopted this week includes one
particularly significant change from the platforms adopted by the party
conventions of 1992, 1996 and 2000. During the platform-writing
death penalty news
July 27, 2004
SINGAPORE / AUSTRALIA:
Singapore court defers judgment in Australian death penalty case
Singapore's appeals court reserved judgment Monday in a death-penalty case
against an Australian convicted of smuggling heroin, saying it wants more
time to look at
death penalty news
July 27, 2004
SOUTH DAKOTA:
Neil Frame May Face Death Penalty In Saleswoman Killing
A 41-year-old Rapid Valley man accused of killing a door-to-door magazine
saleswoman from California still doesn't know whether prosecutors will seek
the death penalty against him.
Neil
Friends,
the title of my former posting reading SOUTH DAKOTA should be CALIFORNIA.
My apologies!
Best regards,
Joerg.
July 27
USA:
Court should end juvenile executions
Christopher Simmons was 17 and should have just graduated from high school
at the time a Missouri jury sentenced him to death. A decade later, his
sentence is the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case, scheduled for oral
arguments in the
death penalty news
July 28, 2004
ZIMBABWE / UNITED KINGDOM:
Ex-SAS officer may face death penalty in coup conspiracy trial
A British national will go on trial today on charges of leading a plot to
oust the government of the oil-rich west African state of Equatorial Guinea.
Simon Mann, a
July 30
OKLAHOMA:
Court overturns death sentence, citing attorney's incompetence
In Denver, an appeals court Thursday overturned the death sentence of
Roderick L. Smith, an Oklahoma City man convicted of murdering his wife
and four stepchildren.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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death penalty news
August 4, 2004
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Prosecutor to seek death penalty in Abbeville standoff
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against one of the people involved
in a 13-hour standoff last year in an Abbeville home that started with the
killing of two law enforcement
Aug. 4
ALABAMAimpending execution
Victim's son: Death in pastSays he long ago forgave Hubbard for
mother's murder
Johnny Montgomery closed the case on his mother's murderer long before the
state scheduled the execution of James Barney J.B. Hubbard.
After 2 jury trials and
August 4
ALABAMA:
Federal court denies Alabama's oldest death row inmate stay of execution
A federal appeals court today refused to block the execution of James
Barney Hubbard. The state's oldest death row inmate is scheduled to die by
lethal injection tomorrow (Thursday) night.
The
August 5
TEXAS:
Death penalty sought in Higgins death
Jury selection is set to begin Jan. 5 in the capital murder trial of a
career criminal charged with the death of Laura Powell Higgins on Dec. 19,
2002.
We will be seeking the death penalty in this case, Harris County
Prosecutor Denise
August 5
TEXAS:
New Doubt Cast on Crime Testing in Houston Cases
The police crime laboratory in Houston, already reeling from a scandal
that has led to retesting of evidence in 360 cases, now faces a much
larger crisis that could involve many thousands of cases over 25 years.
Six
death penalty news
August 5, 2004
NEW YORK:
Jury rejects death penalty in case
A federal jury rejected death as a sentence Thursday for two men convicted
of killing a government informant, bringing an emotional end to a case in
which the trial judge had concluded the federal death penalty
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Further Information on UA 206/04 issued 22 June 2004
and follow-up issued 9 July 2004
Death Penalty/Imminent Execution
INDIA : Dhananjoy Chatterjee (m)
The President of India has rejected the mercy petition
which Dhananjoy
August 5
TEXASjuvenile faces death penalty
Barber says teen admitted shooting coupleWhile on the run near Dallas,
Acuna befriended the witness
After a teenage boy allegedly shot and killed an elderly Baytown couple
last year, he fled to Dallas, got a haircut, tried to buy
August 5
SOUTH DAKOTA:
Death-row inmate takes appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
An appeal by South Dakota death-row inmate Charles Russell Rhines will be
considered during the October term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rhines, 48, wants the high court to decide if his future appeal strategy
may
August 5
CALIFORNIA:
Peterson trial delayed while defense investigates new evidence
Scott Peterson's murder trial will be delayed until early next week so the
defense can investigate recently discovered evidence, the judge announced
Thursday after a closed-door session with the
Aug. 5
ALABAMA:
Supreme Court denies stay of execution to aging Alabama inmate
A 74-year-old condemned murderer was denied a stay by the U.S. Supreme
Court as he neared a scheduled execution Thursday that would make him the
oldest inmate put to death in the United States in decades.
In
August 5
ALABAMAexecution
Alabama executes aging inmate for 1977 murder
A 74-year-old condemned murderer was executed Thursday after courts and
the governor refused to prevent him from becoming the oldest U.S. inmate
put to death in decades.
James Barney Hubbard died by lethal
August 5
[friends---the following item was put out earlier under the heading of
TENNESSEEthat was incorrect.the story relates to a death row
inmate in Oklahoma..Philip Workman, on death row in Tennessee, has an
execution date for September 22my apologies for the error
Aug. 5
CONNECTICUT:
Man could face death penalty for West Hartford killing
A Torrington man faces the possibility of the death penalty after being
convicted Thursday in a murder-for-hire plot in which he was to receive a
broken snowmobile.
The 12-member jury convicted Eduardo Santiago
August 6
ALABAMA:
U.S. Supreme Court, Riley refuse to stop execution
Dressed in a white prison uniform, strapped to a gurney with his arms
outstretched, almost angelic, a silver-haired James Barney Hubbard died
peacefully by lethal injection Thursday.
At 6:36 p.m., the 74-year-old from
News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International
AI Index: ASA 21/027/20045 August 2004
Indonesia: Execution of Indian national is step backwards
The execution of Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey marks a step backwards for human
rights in Indonesia. The
August 6
TEXAS:
Death-row inmate wins appeal
A man facing the death penalty for an Amarillo businessman's 1990 stabbing
death should receive a new sentencing hearing or a life sentence, a
federal judge has ruled, but prosecutors plan to appeal the decision.
In a ruling issued Monday,
August 7
NEVADAimpending execution//volunteer
Nevada executions follow precise procedures
Unless Terry Jess Dennis asks for a last-minute stay, the condemned inmate
will be led through a submarine-type door into the Nevada State Prison's
death chamber and be executed at 9 p.m.
August 8
INDONESIA:
Drug traffickers deserve death sentence: Amien
National Mandate Party (PAN) leader Amien Rais said on Saturday he agreed
with the government's recent decision to execute Indian national Ayodya
Prasad Chaubery, who had been sentenced to death for a major drug offense.
August 8
OKLAHOMA:
Nichols set to get life a 2nd time
Already serving life in federal prison, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator
Terry Nichols is set to be sentenced to life in state prison Monday, and
his attorneys say he may use the occasion to speak publicly for the 1st
time since he
death penalty news
August 9, 2004
MASSACHUSETTS -- possible federal death penalty
D.A.: Back off, Ashcroft: Conley fights feds over death penalty
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, fearful the feds could alienate
black leaders helping battle back violence in Boston, is urging
death penalty news
August 9, 2004
IRAQ / UK:
UK to lobby Iraq on death penalty
The UK is to urge the interim Iraqi government to abolish the death penalty
which has just been reintroduced there.
Ann Clwyd, UK special representative on human rights in Iraq, said she was
sorry the penalty
August 8
FLORIDA:
A QUESTION OF JUSTICE20 years after a man's execution, doubts over his
guilt haunt case; Some legal experts say that since the death penalty's
return in the 1970s, at least 38 executions have occurred despite
indications of innocence or strong doubt of guilt. James
August 8
TEXAS:
BEATTY'S MOTHER LOVED HER SON
Carolyn Ruth Click told her granddaughter that she did not like her son -
but she loved him.
The punishment trial began Saturday for Tracy Lane Beatty, 43, who was
convicted of capital murder after a jury deliberated for 6 hours Friday.
He
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August 10
TENNESSEEnew execution date
State Supreme Court sets execution date for Johnson
The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled a November 16th execution date
for a Shelby County man convicted of murdering his wife.
The justices today set the execution date for 53-year-old Donnie
August 10
CALIFORNIA:
Star witness Frey testifies of affair with Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson's one-time lover testified Tuesday that her 1st blind date
with him culminated in a hotel room tryst, revealing the 1st details of an
affair the government says led Peterson to murder his
death penalty news
August 11, 2004
NEW YORK:
Pataki Introduces Bill to Restore Death Penalty
Gov. George E. Pataki introduced a bill this week to fix a provision of the
state's capital punishment law that was recently invalidated by New York's
highest court. But even the governor's aides
Aug. 11
NEW YORK:
Pataki Introduces Bill to Restore Death Penalty
Gov. George E. Pataki introduced a bill this week to fix a provision of
the state's capital punishment law that was recently invalidated by New
York's highest court. But even the governor's aides said it stood little
chance
August 11
IRAQ:
Divisions Loom over Iraq Death Penalty
The Danish military has suspended its handover of prisoners to British
forces because of the reinstatement of Iraq's death penalty - an issue
that could have broader implications and divide coalition partners working
with the police
August 11
TEXASnew juvenile death sentence
Acuna gets death penalty
A Harris County jury sentenced Robert Aaron Acuna to death Wednesday for
killing his elderly Baytown neighbors last year.
Acuna, 18, of Baytown was convicted of capital murder Friday in the
shooting deaths of James
August 11
INDIA:
Hangman not informed about Dhananjoy's execution date
Hangman Nata Mullick said on Wednesday that he was mentally prepared to
hang the rape and murder convict Dhananjoy Chatterjee on August 14, but
was peeved at not being informed by the authorities about the date of the
August 11
EUROPEAN UNION/INDONESIA:
EU condemns Indonesia's first execution in 3 years
The European Union expressed its dismay Wednesday at Indonesia's 1st
execution for 3 years after an elderly Indian man was shot dead by firing
squad for drug smuggling.
Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey, 67,
August 11
TEXAS:
Families React To Elderly Couple Murderer's Sentencing18-Year-Old To
Receive Death By Lethal Injection
Jurors sentenced a Baytown teen to death Wednesday for murdering his
elderly neighbors in November 2003
Convicted Killer's Mother Calls Prosecutors 'Bloodthirsty'
Greetings.
For those of us who want to write letters to the Board of Pardons and
Parole, the addresses are below. Please be mindful that James Allridge
has caused pain and suffering for Brian Clendennen's family that most of
us cannot presume to know, and this should be acknowledged in our
death penalty news
August 11, 2004
CALIFORNIA:
Date, place of Wesson's death penalty trial to be decided
A Fresno County judge decided to hear arguments about a proposed delay and
a change of venue in murder suspect Marcus Wesson's trial on Aug. 20,
following a discussion in court
death penalty news
August 12, 2004
INDIA:
Man sentenced to death for killing wife
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Malappuram (Ker), Aug 12: A fast track court here has sentenced to death a
32-year-old man for brutally killing his wife for not submitting to his
sexual desires.
Manjeri additional
August 12
NEVADAimpending execution
Execution scheduled for tonight
She challenged him and set him off, Terry Jess Dennis, still drunk, told
the police detective.
This woman whose name he couldn't remember, with whom he had been drinking
and having sex for days, didn't believe he
August 12
CALIFORNIA:
Peterson Told Frey He Loved 'The Shining'
Prosecutors played for jurors a series of telephone calls Scott Peterson
made to his mistress -- including one where he tells her The Shining is
the best movie ever -- in their attempt to show his nonchalance just
days after
August 12
INDONESIA:
Thai Embassy seeks information on 2 Thai death row convicts
The Thai Embassy in Jakarta has sought information from the Medan chapter
of the Legal Aid Institute (LBH-Medan) on the condition of 2 Thai
nationals convicted of drug trafficking.
An official of the Thai
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USA (Texas) James Vernon Allridge
James Allridge (m), black, aged 41, is scheduled to be
executed in Texas on 26 August 2004. He was sentenced to
death in 1987 for the murder of a convenience
August 12
VIRGINIA:
Lethal Injection by Virginia Not Cruel, U.S. Supreme Court Says
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution yesterday for a
convicted Virginia killer who had argued that the state's method of
carrying out lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
The 5
August 12
USAre: City councils passing supporting a moratorium on USA
executions
Alabama and North Carolina are neck in neck with 28 and 27 local
governments each. California comes in 3rd place with 15 local governments.
And Connecticut leads the pack for abolition resolutions -- 2
August 12
NEVADAexecution//volunteer
Nevada death row inmate executed for 1999 Reno strangling
Death row inmate Terry Jess Dennis, resolute to the end about not wanting
any appeals, was executed Thursday night at the Nevada State Prison for
strangling a woman in a Reno motel room in
August 13
KENTUCKY:
Lawsuit says execution by injection is torture
Attorneys for 2 men on Kentucky's death row claim in a lawsuit that being
executed by chemical injection or electrocution is a form of torture and
should be declared unconstitutional.
Thomas Clyde Bowling and Ralph Baze
August 13
PHILIPPINES:
19 Abu Sayyaf rebels get death penalty in the Philippines
A Philippine judge on Friday sentenced to death 19 Muslim Abu Sayyaf
rebels who were among those who kidnapped several people during an attack
on a southern town 3 years ago.
Danilo Bucoy, a regional trial
URGENT ACTION APPEAL UPDATE
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Futher Information on UA 192/04 issued 4 June 2004 -
Imminent Execution
UZBEKISTAN: Azizbek Karimov (m), aged 25
Azizbek Karimov was reportedly executed in secret on 10
August, despite the fact that the United
August 13
TEXAS:
Online sales of Death Row inmate's art investigated
2 state agencies are investigating whether condemned inmate James Vernon
Allridge is violating Texas law and prison policies by selling greeting
cards and other artworks over the Internet.
Acting on complaints from
August 13
INDIA/GLOBAL:
Hanging is widely used worldwide for execution
Hanging, the punishment awarded to Dhananjoy Chatterjee for the rape and
murder of a schoolgirl, is the second most widely used method of execution
in the world today after shooting.
At least 115 men and 5 women were
August 13
TENNESSEEnew death sentence
Man Convicted of murdering 2 elderly women gets death penalty
In Memphis, a man accused of killing 2 elderly women last year was
sentenced today in court. James Christopher Riels will receive the
ultimate punishment - death.
Riels was hired by 1
August 14
UNITED KINGDOM/IRAQ:
Drop the death penalty, Clwyd tells Iraq
Saddam Hussein should not face the death penalty, the Government's human
rights envoy to Iraq has said.
Iraq's interim government reinstated the death penalty for murder,
endangering national security and distributing
August 14
TEXAS:
Convicted murderer appeals 1996 ruling
Sentenced to death for the brutal sex-related slayings of a 68-year-old
grandmother and her 4-year-old blind granddaughter, Jose Noe Martinez
found himself back in a Hidalgo County courtroom Friday for an appeals
hearing.
Martinez,
August 15
INDIA:
Hangman breaks down after Dhananjoy's execution
Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged to death on Saturday for the rape and
murder, on March 5, 1990, of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh.
Rapist and murderer Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged to death early on
Saturday inside the
August 16
INDIA:
Days May Be Numbered For Hangman's Noose
While Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged on the weekend for the rape and
murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, the storm of protests and public
debates generated by his case might see the end of capital punishment in
India.
Chatterjee
death penalty news
August 17, 2004
UZBEKISTAN:
Uzbek blast trial restarts
The trial is under way in Uzbekistan of 15 people allegedly involved in a
series of suicide bombings and other violence in March.
More than 40 people died in the carnage.
The authorities have accused the 15 of
August 17
VIRGINIAimpending execution//volunteer
Man won't contest his executionHe is set to die tomorrow for Halifax
slayings of 2 brothers and 1 brother's wife in 2002
James Bryant Hudson, who has given up all appeals, is set to be executed
tomorrow night for the slayings of 3
August 17
NIGERIA:
Death Penalty Abolition And Missing Fundamentals
The debate on whether or not death penalty should be retained in our
statutes has refused to abate. As a coalition of NGOs push a bill at the
National Assembly for the abolition, Willy Mamah, a die hard abolitionist
August 18
CHINA:
China curator gets death penalty for stealing relics
The head of a relics protection department at a former Chinese imperial
palace has been sentenced to death for stealing the artefacts he was meant
to protect, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
Li Haitao was
August 17
OHIOnew execution date
Oct. 13 execution date in place for Akron man
An Oct. 13 execution date has been set for an Akron man on Ohio's death
row.
The Ohio Supreme Court set the date last week for Adremy Dennis, 28.
A clemency hearing before the Ohio Parole Board is
death penalty news
August 18, 2004
NORTH CAROLINA:
District attorney won't seek death penalty in slaying
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox told a judge Tuesday that he will
not seek the death penalty against Devin Scott Riggsbee, who is charged
with killing a Hertford County
August 18
CALIFORNIA:
Police: Sharon Rocha lashed out at Scott Peterson after learning of
mistress
Sharon Rocha left court Monday while jurors heard taped phone calls
between Scott Peterson and Amber Frey.
When Laci Peterson's mother learned about Scott Peterson's affair with a
death penalty news
August 18, 2004
INDIA:
Another Gets Death Penalty For Rrape-Murder Of Minor
Barely few days after Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged for raping and
murdering a 14-year-old girl, Hetal Parekh, in Kolkata in 1990, a sessions
court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday sentenced to death a
August 18
INDIA:
Death penalty to stay, lethal injections mooted:
Lethal injections could soon replace hanging as a mode of capital
punishment, which the government Wednesday said it had no plans to
abolish.
In reply to questions in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home
Affairs S.
August 19
TEXAS:
No MercyThe case of James Allridge raises familiar questions about the
Texas justice system
On August 26, Texas is scheduled to execute James Allridge III for the
1985 murder of 21-year-old Brian Clendennen, who died from 2 gunshots
fired in the course of the botched
August 19
OKLAHOMA:
Death row inmates testify in Tillman
3 death row inmates called the Tillman County Law Enforcement Center home
recently, for just an extended stay.
The inmates were transported from the McAlester, Okla., penitentiary. Two
were to testify on the competency of
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