March 26
TEXAS:
Man scheduled to die loses Supreme Court appeal
A convicted murderer scheduled to die later this year for beating his
ex-girlfriend in the head with a hammer and strangling her lost an appeal
Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gilberto Guadalupe Reyes, 33, is set to die
March 26
GEORGIA:
House Pushes to End Unanimity Requirement for Death Penalty Cases
The Georgia House adopted a measure today designed to stop death penalty
opponents from preventing capital punishment cases by allowing judges to
consider a death sentence even if 2 jurors vote against it.
March 26
BAHAMAS:
Abaco Man To Face Death Sentence
A 3-man, 9-woman jury found Abaco man Ian Jermaine Knowles guilty of
murder after about 3 hours of deliberation on Thursday night, and the
Crown indicated that it will indeed seek the death penalty for the
convicted murderer.
The jury
March 25
TEXAS:
Tabler trial nearing the end
Few topics polarize the nation like the imposition of the death penalty.
In Bell County, the sentence is seldom sought by the state, even in
multiple murder cases.
On March 1, 2002, a Bell County jury sentenced 37-year-old Denard Manns to
March 25
GEORGIA:
House Passes Death Penalty Bill
This week, the state House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make it
possible to sentence a person to death without a unanimous verdict.
While victims' rights groups and law enforcement hail the idea, defense
attorneys are alarmed,
March 25
CHINA:
Letters From Death Row
Their numbers are taboo. Their stories condemned to oblivion. The world of
China's death row prisoners is too forbidding, the execution grounds too
sordid to yield a compelling book that would escape the scrutiny of the
communist state censors.
But
March 26
VIRGINIA:
Governor vetoes proposed expansion of Virginia death penalty
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat with a personal aversion to the death
penalty, on Monday announced he has vetoed 5 bills that would have
expanded the crimes punishable by death in Virginia.
Kaine vetoed
Friends
see:
http://www.doc.missouri.gov/newsreleases/pdf/NewsRelease_031307.pdf
Missouri will walk the same way of Florida. no more pen pal pages after
June 1st.
March 26
UTAH:
Prison rejects murderer's claim of tortureGardner complains of pain
linked to arthritis
Prison officials say death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner is not being
tortured in prison, contrary to the convicted murderer's claim in federal
court on Monday.
Gardner, 46, is
March 26
GAMBIA:
When Will the Referendum on the Death Penalty be Held?
Section 18 of the Constitution deals with the right to life. However, the
courts are empowered to impose capital punishment or the death penalty
after conviction of a criminal offence for which the penalty is death.
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