Feb. 4
LIBYA:
Out of Guantanamo into Libya's torture chambers
Despite some improvements in recent years, serious rights abuses continue
in Libya.
A new report by Human Rights Watch Libya: Rights at risk notes that the
absence of a free press, the ban on independent organisations, the to
Feb. 4
TEXASanother death row inmate commits suicide
Mentally ill killer found hanging in cell
A psychologically troubled inmate sentenced to die for a 1985 Houston
robbery-murder has become the second Harris County killer to commit
suicide in state prison in a four day period, Texas
Feb. 4
INDIA:
Hearing on death penalty today
LUCKNOW: After 7 postponements on the requests of the defence, the
criminal appeal and confirmation of the death sentence in Manjunath case
is slated for hearing on February 4 at the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High
Court.
On March 26, 2007, the
Feb. 4
IDAHO:
New trial begins for Idaho man after 2 decades on death row
After more than 2 decades on death row for the slayings of a Texas couple
in the Idaho wilderness, a new jury will begin deciding Mark Lankford's
fate (Monday.
The 51-year-old Lankford was given a new trial after a
