April 28
TEXASGuatemalan citizen may face death penalty
Suspect charged with murder belonged to MS-13, but killing during robbery
thought to be random attack.
A man charged in the fatal shooting Saturday of an 18-year-old Mexican
immigrant is a member of a violent international gang
April 28
GEORGIAbook review
Unholy hands; David Rose's Violation chronicles a vain 30 year search for
justice in Georgia, says Jay Parini
Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South by David Rose
350pp, HarperCollins, 16.99
In the Deep South of America, there is
April 28
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Pro bono 'duties' debatedProposal would let lawyers buy an exemption
from court-appointed cases
Should a lawyer be able to buy his way out of representing the poor?
He could under a proposal that has passed the S.C. House and is being
considered by the
April 28
CALIFORNIA:
Redlands man gets death penalty in '03 Riverside slaying
The slaying of a retired Riverside professor was so heinous that the
killer deserves the death penalty even though he is mentally ill, a
Superior Court judge ruled Friday.
Johnathon Ross Luther, of Redlands,
April 28
PAKISTAN:
Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court awards death penalty to 2 Lashkar-e-Jhanvi
activists
An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) here awarded the death penalty to 2
'Lashkar-e-Jhangvi' activists on Saturday for the murder of a local
Iranian bakery owner.
The court, however, acquitted
April 28
FLORIDA:
Flower child on death row
In 1976, Sunny Jacobs and her children got caught up in a shootout in
which 2 state troopers were killed. She and her boyfriend were blamed and
sentenced to the electric chair. Here she describes life in solitary and a
16-year battle to prove her
