Aug. 7
COLORADO:
Should We Execute the Mentally Ill?
On Wednesday, the final witness in the sentencing trial of Aurora theater
shooter James Holmes testified before the court in Centennial, Colo. Ashley
Moser was the mother of the shooting's youngest victim, 6-year-old Veronica
Aug. 7
PAKISTAN:
Hanging people for a living; Rs500 a head
His job is to kill people - Rs500 a head - and he gets paid by the government.
After the moratorium on death penalty was lifted in December last year, Sabir
Masih has become a busy man. 1 of the only 2 hangmen in Punjab - he
Aug. 7
TEXAS:
Prosecutors consider death penalty
The Cameron County District Attorney's Office has 2 weeks to decide whether it
will seek the death penalty for 1 of 3 men accused in the 2004 shooting death
of Tomas Hernandez Zapata.
1 of the suspects, Jose Nicolas Acosta, 29, pleaded
Aug. 7
TEXAS:
From seeking the death penalty to fighting it
Sam Millsap Jr.'s resume reads like the start of a John Grisham novel.
In 1982, he became the youngest big-city district attorney in the nation,
telling Texas Monthly a year later that it was the job he was born and bred
