[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 8 EUROPE: Europe Pushes to Keep Lethal Injection Drugs From U.S. Prisons Pharmaceutical makers have long promoted their products as a means to enhance or prolong life. Now some have been enmeshed in a transatlantic battle over whether their drugs can also be used to end it. Europe

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----MONT., USA, IOWA, TENN., MD., ARK., KAN.

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 8 MONTANA: Time to eliminate Montana's death penalty A hearing for House Bill 370, which proposes to replace Montana's death penalty with life in prison without parole, is scheduled for a hearing at 8 a.m. on Feb. 15 before the House Judiciary Committee, Room 137 in the Capitol bu

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, OHIO, FLA., ARIZ.

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 8 TEXAS: DA may ask for execution date this summer in Ross case; Judicial appeal avenues nearly exhausted in 2001 double murder A request that a Lubbock County judge set an execution date for Vaughn Ross, on death row since October 2002 for a double murder in January 2001, may co