death penalty news
April 5, 2005
GLOBAL:
Death penalty figures: Your reaction
Nearly 4,000 people were executed worldwide in 2004 - the highest number in
nearly ten years, say Amnesty International.
The human rights group found that China carried out more executions than
all other
death penalty news
April 7, 2005
YEMEN:
Amnesty pleads for Yemeni youth
Amnesty International pleaded with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Wednesday to commute the death sentence handed down to a juvenile.
The group said in a statement published Wednesday on its Web site Hafez
Ibrahim,
death penalty news
April 7, 2005
PENNSYLVANIA:
Death penalty possible for Haymes
The man accused of the rape, murder and dismemberment of 15-year-old Deanna
Wright-McIntosh faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted.
Deputy District Attorney John F. X. Reilly cited two
death penalty news
April 7, 2005
USA:
The death penalty necessary justice for criminals found guilty
It may be the most ominous walk in the world. A mere 20 yards from a stark
death row cell to the death chamber - arguably the loneliest and most
despairing juncture in a human life.
Now,
death penalty news
April 7, 2005
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Killer of officer from Rhode Island gets death penalty
A man has been sentenced to death in South Carolina for killing a police
officer who was a native of Warwick.
Luzenski Allen Cottrell killed Myrtle Beach police Officer Joe McGarry on
death penalty news
April 8, 2005
IOWA:
Senate Considers Adding Limited Death Penalty To Sex Offender Measure -
Members Propose Penalties Against Repeat Offenders
Senators considering sex offender legislation that was passed by the House
said they want to consider adding a limited death
death penalty news
April 8, 2005
FLORIDA:
Raven Raven dies in muted public notice
We've come a long way in how we kill.
They injected him with drugs Tuesday, and convicted killer Raven Raven,
once known as Glenn Ocha, quietly died many miles from the scene of his
crime -- the 1999 murder
death penalty news
April 8, 2005
NEW YORK:
Putting death penalty on Death Row
Talk about a mercy killing: Albany is finally on the verge of putting the
death penalty out of its misery.
It was last summer that the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals,
pulled the plug on capital
death penalty news
April 9, 2005
GLOBAL:
U.N. Urges Countries to Shed Light on Death Penalty
A U.N. human rights investigator Friday urged countries to remove the
cloak of secrecy surrounding the death penalty and disclose the number of
executions and people on death row.
Philip Alston,
death penalty news
April 8, 2005
GEORGIA:
'Aggravated circumstances' led to death penalty decision - DA seeks capital
punishment in slaying of Pendergrass officer
Killing a working policeman is such a heinous crime that Piedmont District
Attorney Tim Madison decided last week to seek the
death penalty news
April 8, 2005
USA:
Congress Should Not Expand the Death Penalty
Joint Letter Opposing Capital Sentencing Provisions in H.R. 1279
April 4, 2005
The Honorable Howard Coble
Chair, Judiciary Committee
Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee
House of Representatives
death penalty news
April 12, 2005
SINGAPORE:
Sons bid to free father on death row
Two 14-year-old Singapore brothers have begun a rare campaign in the city
state to free their jailed father fromdeath row, where he faces execution
for trafficking about 1 kg of marijuana.
Twins Gopalan and
death penalty news
April 12, 2005
CHINA:
Chinese police take heat for coerced confessions
An unusual surge of heated public debate has engulfed China over the
wrongful convictions of two men for murder, one of whom was executed.
The two cases have cast a spotlight on police using torture
death penalty news
April 12, 2005
GEORGIA:
State lawyer goes to bat for death penalty defendants
Attorney Chris Adams grew frustrated as he stood in the lobby of police
headquarters trying to see Atlanta's most infamous man.
Adams claimed to be Brian Nichols' lawyer on March 12 even though
death penalty news
April 12, 2005
NEW YORK:
Assembly Committee Kills Death Penalty Bill
The Democratic-controlled state Assembly's powerful Codes Committee voted
11-7 Tuesday not to send legislation aimed at reinstating New York's death
penalty to the full house for a vote, a move that may
death penalty news
April 12, 2005
NEW YORK:
Albany Panel Closes Door on Death Penalty Measure
Democrats in the State Assembly closed the door today on reviving the death
penalty in New York State this year, handing a significant victory to
groups that are trying to build national momentum
death penalty news
April 14, 2005
USA:
Lethal injection execution 'cruel' - U.S. researchers
American researchers have called for an halt to lethal injection, the most
common method of capital punishment in the United States, because it is not
always a humane and painless way to die.
Some
death penalty news
April 14, 2005
NEW YORK:
New York's Death Penalty Dies
The Assembly Codes Committee killed the state's death penalty Tuesday,
April 12, voting 11-7 against legislation that would have addressed a
sentencing provision of the death penalty law which caused the Court of
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
the state resumed capital punishment
in 1989.
Brown becomes the 23rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the
USA and the 967th overall since America resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
(source: AP / Washington Post Joerg Sommer)
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
death penalty news
June 24, 2005
MARYLAND:
Death penalty possible for defendant in officer's slaying
Slouched in his seat with his feet crossed, Robert Billett was silent while
a judge read the charges against him Thursday afternoon.
Assault with a deadly weapon. Attempted murder.
death penalty news
June 24, 2005
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO:
The Punishers
The curious thing about statistics presented in defence of theories seeking
to prove the futility of corporal or capital punishment is that they are
all constructed on conjecture; saying punishment of convicted criminals in
death penalty news
June 24, 2005
USA:
Death penalty debate finally produces useful result
For the past half century, the nation has been locked ? deadlocked might be
a better word ? in a bitter debate over the death penalty. But what if
there is a middle ground?
With little fanfare, a
death penalty news
August 10, 2005
USA / NEW YORK:
Death penalty's history housed at UAlbany library
During a taxi ride in 1983 in Washington, D.C., two men actively
involved in the national debate over the death penalty discussed strategy.
Except for a single private letter
death penalty news
August 10, 2005
CHINA:
Death penalty exemption may be good way to extradite fugitive corrupt
officials: Chinese expert
Chinese law experts on Wednesday said judicial reform, including
death penalty exemption, may help bring back more fugitive corrupt officials.
A report
death penalty news
August 10, 2005
LOUISIANA:
Killer cop gets death penalty - New Orleans officer ordered woman shot
For a second time, a jury chose the death penalty for Len Davis, a
former New Orleans police officer convicted of ordering the murder of
a woman who filed a brutality
death penalty news
August 13, 2005
SCOTLAND / UK
700th anniversary of Braveheart's execution
Pupils 'need Scots heroes'
Nationalists today called for the stories of William Wallace and
Andrew de Moray to be taught in Scottish schools.
MSP Rob Gibson has lodged a parliamentary motion on the
death penalty news
August 14, 2005
OHIO:
Ky. man faces death penalty
Authorities say John David Anderson took a man's
life and for that, he could lose his own.
A Lawrence County grand jury has returned an
eight-count indictment against Anderson, the man
arrested in connection with the
death penalty news
August 14, 2005
CHINA:
China pressured on death penalty
The Chinese government is under pressure to scrap the death penalty
for nonviolent crimes so that corrupt officials fleeing abroad can be
more easily extradited.
Chinese legal scholars have called on the government
death penalty news
August 16, 2005
SOUTH AFRICA:
Solution to death penalty
August 16, 2005
The death penalty is a divisive issue, with debate for and against.
Both sides have valid points. I support capital
punishment (CP), but not primarily as a deterrent
- although deterrence more
death penalty news
August 16, 2005
USA:
Catholics and the Death Penalty
It's not clear where Turley got his misinformation.
In a column about Judge Roberts' personal views
on controversial social issues, Jonathan Turley,
a law professor at George Washington University,
declared that
death penalty news
August 18, 2005
NEW JERSEY:
New rules set by court for death penalty case
State required to prove accused child killer is not mentally retarded
A New Jersey appeals court on Wednesday said Morris County
prosecutors must prove to a jury that accused child-killer Porfirio
death penalty news
August 24, 2005
IDAHO:
Idaho prosecutors to seek death for man accused in Groene slayings
Prosecutors in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, will seek the death penalty
against convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III for his
alleged role in the death of three people in their
death penalty news
September 7, 2005
OHIO:
Federal judge denies Spirko's motion to stop execution
With 14 days to go, a federal judge Tuesday refused to stop the Sept.
20 execu-tion of a man convicted of killing the Elgin postmistress in 1982.
On the same day, John Spirko's attorneys filed
death penalty news
September 16, 2005
JAPAN:
Japan carries out first execution in a year
Japan on Friday carried out its first execution in a year, hanging a
man who was convicted of killing two women in robberies, an official
and reports said.
Japan, the only major
death penalty news
June 3, 2004
INDIA / EU:
National Network
Rajiv probe: UK, others seek shield before giving proof
Some European countries including the United Kingdom have sought sovereign
assurance from India over courts not awarding capital punishment to
death penalty news
June 3, 2004
CALIFORNIA:
Death penalty sought in cop killing
D.A. says prosecutors believe suspect deserves it
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will seek the death penalty if a jury
convicts a Sunland man of murdering Burbank police rookie Matthew Pavelka
and trying
death penalty news
June 3, 2004
CANADA:
Tory backs death penalty
Candidate says views are personal
Third discrepancy for party in a week
Conservative candidate Tom Jackson says he would like to see the return of
the death penalty, raising an issue his party leader has tried to downplay.
I
death penalty news
June 3, 2004
MARYLAND:
Convicted killer loses bid to avoid death penalty
A Baltimore County judge rejected Wednesday one of Steven Oken's attempts
to avoid execution. Circuit Judge John G. Turnbull II granted the state's
motion for summary judgment in Oken's lawsuit
death penalty news
June 3, 2004
USA:
We should let life in prison be the ultimate penalty in American society
By Michael A. Kroll
San Francisco - The efforts of city police and a powerful California
senator to make an alleged cop killer face the death penalty are ironically
providing two
death penalty news
June 4, 2004
CALIFORNIA:
Sups Back Black DA in Death Penalty Controversy
District Attorney Kamala Harris, under fire from some politicians for
refusing to change her opposition to the death penalty in the case of a
suspect charged with killing an undercover police
death penalty news
June 7, 2004
RUSSIA:
New reasons for Russia to ratify protocol on death penalty
Alexander Yakovenko, an official representative of the Russian Foreign
Ministry, said that new reasons have arisen for Russia to ratify the
protocol on abolishing the death penalty.
The
death penalty news
June 8, 2004:
SOUTH AFRICA:
Judge calls for death penalty
William Kekana (20) was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Pretoria High
Court on Tuesday for the murder of a Brits electrician, Jacobus Geldenhuys
(38).
When pronouncing the sentence of life and 35 years,
death penalty news
June 9, 2004
USA:
CON: State must refrain from taking life
Editor's note: David Paul Hammer, a federal death row inmate, was scheduled
for death by lethal injection this week at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre
Haute. However, Hammer was granted a stay of execution by the
death penalty news
June 14, 2004
MARYLAND:
Marylanders must not stand silent as the state takes a life in our name
WHEN THE STATE enters a case for the death penalty, the state is not a
nameless, faceless entity. We are the state. You and I, our families, the
governor and lieutenant
death penalty news
June 14, 2004
OHIO:
VIEWING CAPITAL PUNISMENT
Assistant State Public Defender Steve Ferrell believes Ohioans should be
allowed to see executions when they are carried out.
Assistant State Public Defender Steve Ferrell believes Ohioans should be
allowed to see executions
death penalty news
July 6, 2004
PAKISTAN:
Pakistan hands death penalty to three militants
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced three members of an outlawed
Islamic group to death on Tuesday, finding them guilty of killing at least
six minority Shi'ite Muslims, lawyers said.
The
death penalty news
July 8, 2004
MICHIGAN:
Sterling Heights Votes in Favor of Capital Punishment
The Sterling Heights City Council passed a resolution Tuesday night in
favor of the death penalty for people who kill police officers. Just a
month ago, the city lost Officer Mark Sawyers to a
death penalty news
July 8, 2004
JAMAICA:
Death penalty ruling pleases rights activists
Ruling will have implications for scores of death row inmates
Human rights activists welcomed yesterday's decision that abolishes
automatic death penalty in Jamaica, and government conceded that the
death penalty news
July 8, 2004
MICHIGAN:
Death penalty proposal fails to get on November ballot
An initiative to place the death penalty issue before Michigan voters
failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot,
organizers said.
The proposal would have changed
death penalty news
July 8, 2004
JAMAICA:
Jamaica Death Penalty Abolished in Court Ruling
Britain?s Privy Council has ruled that Jamaica?s mandatory death penalty
for murder convictions was unconstitutional.
But the Privy Council, which serves as the highest appeal court for many
former
death penalty news
July 9, 2004
PENNSYLVANIA:
Death penalty will be sought against Gottstein in Sullivan County
Sullivan County District Attorney Max Little plans to seek the death
penalty for homicide suspect Jason Scott Gottstein.
The district attorney has filed a notice of aggravating
death penalty news
July 9, 2004
CALIFORNIA:
Scanlan seeks self-represention in death penalty trial
Confessed killer Seti Scanlan wants to act as his own attorney when his
second death-penalty trial begins in September.
The outspoken, unpredictable 26-year-old tried to fire his lawyers
death penalty news
July 14, 2004
NEW ZEALAND:
Support for death penalty in NZ
The death penalty was abolished nearly 45 years ago but a poll shows nearly
one in three New Zealanders want it back.
The One News Colmar Brunton poll finds voters want a range of justice laws
toughened up.
The
death penalty news
July 14, 2004
MISSOURI:
Jurors say they could consider death penalty
Potential panel members for David Zink's murder trial also would consider
life in prison.
More than two-thirds of a second group of potential jurors for David Zink's
murder trial indicated Tuesday they
death penalty news
July 14, 2004
NORTH CAROLINA:
Man Who Allegedly Shot, Killed Daughter To Face Death Penalty
Bishop Remains In Alamance County Jail Under $1 million
The Alamance County district attorney said he will seek the death penalty
against a father accused of killing his daughter.
death penalty news
July 15, 2004
NEW ZEALAND:
Death Penalty Distraction
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today declined to support
the death penalty, but said he had no objection to the idea that some
crimes deserved it.
There is a legitimate question as to whether justice
death penalty news
July 15, 2004
NEW YORK:
Legislature prepares to act on death penalty bill
Pataki, Bruno, Silver promise quick action, but League of Women Voters
urges care over speed
Gov. George Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Assembly
Speaker Sheldon Silver all
death penalty news
July 17, 2004
BARBADOS:
Restrain the jubilation
THE Attorney-General may be gratified by the decision of the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council just handed down. The decision indeed
confirms the integrity of Barbados' sovereignty, and its parliamentary
independence.
death penalty news
July 17, 2004
CALIFORNIA:
Defense lawyer Geragos shoot holes in key evidence against Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson's defense dealt blows Thursday to two key pieces of evidence
that support the theory that the fertilizer salesman dumped his wife's body
in San Francisco
death penalty news
July 17, 2004
OREGON:
Prosecutor won't pursue death penalty against mom - Charlene Dorcy's family
history and mental problems are cited in her daughters' shootings, and
arraignment waits until August
The Skamania County prosecutor said Thursday he won't pursue the death
death penalty news
July 18, 2004
WYOMING:
Death penalty sought in Riverton child's death
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the parents of a
22-month-old girl who police say was abused to death.
Macalia Marcine Blackburn, 22, and Andrew John Yellowbear Jr., 29, both of
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
USA:
The Death Penalty: A Capital Idea!
I would venture that the question over which Americans are most
passionately divided isn't abortions or even whether or not Julia Roberts
has any sex appeal, but the issue of capital punishment.
Frankly, I don't
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
USA:
Juvenile Death Penalty Opposed; Opinion to be Shared in Supreme Court Case
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Society for Adolescent
Medicine (SAM) released a joint policy statement today opposing the death
penalty for juvenile offenders,
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
CANADA:
Good noose, bad noose - Hanging an exact science
Editor's note: The following story contains descriptions of executions
through history and may be offensive to some readers.
---
Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin shared the dubious distinction of being
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
USA:
Some major Supreme Court cases on capital punishment:
* In 1972, in a case called Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court declared
capital punishment unconstitutional.
* In 1976, in Gregg v. Georgia, the court reinstated the death penalty.
* In 1986, in
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
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
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.
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
1 - 100 of 217 matches
Mail list logo
