March 3
TEXAS:
Justice for Louis Castro Perez!
The 5th Circuit Court has released an opinion denying relief to innocent Texas
death row prisoner Louis Castro Perez. Many folks will be familiar with the
case through Louis' sister, Delia Perez Meyer, who sits on the board of the
March 3
OKLAHOMA:
U.S. Supreme Court upholds new trial ruling for Oklahoma death row inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal appeals court ruling granting
a new trial to a man who was sentenced to death for killing a Tulsa woman in
1997.
Without comment, the high
March 3
THE MALDIVES:
Comment: The politics of the death penalty in the Maldives
In a presidential campaign rally in 2008, former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
dismissed the issue of death penalty:
Maldivians won't accept it. The international community no longer accepts
it...this
