Aug. 22
GREAT BRITAIN:
The Death Penalty for Capital Punishment
On Friday August 3, in the midst of Olympic fever, 12-year old school-girl Tia
Sharp went missing. A week later her body was found wrapped in a bedsheet and a
binliner in the attic of her 46 year-old grandmother's house.
Aug. 22
TEXASstay of impending execution
U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the execution of John Balentine
The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the execution of a man convicted of fatally
shooting 3 teenage housemates in Amarillo more than 14 years ago.
Justices decided Wednesday to
Aug. 22
PAKISTAN:
Amnesty Urges Protection of Pakistani Girl Accused of Blasphemy
Amnesty International is urging the Pakistani government to ensure the safety
of a Christian girl accused of violating the country's blasphemy laws after she
allegedly desecrated a religious text.
Poli
Aug. 22
TEXASimpending execution
5 Area People on Death Row; 1 Being Executed Tonight
5 Amarillo area criminals are on death row. 1 is set to die Wednesday night,
barring a stay of execution.
John Balentine is scheduled to die tonight. He was sentenced to death in Potter
County.
Aug. 22
GAMBIA:
President Jammeh Must Retract Call for Execution of Death Row Inmatespress
release
Gambian president Yahya Jammeh's reported comments that people sentenced to
death in The Gambia will be executed by September must not be acted on, and
must be retracted, Amnesty In
Aug. 22
TEXASimpending execution
Texas is scheduled to execute a man on Wednesday convicted of fatally shooting
3 sleeping teenagers in Amarillo in 1998.
John Balentine, 43, would be the 8th person executed in Texas this year and the
28th in the United States. He has twice been gr
