TEXASnew execution date
Raphael Holiday has been given an execution date for Novermber 18; it should be
considered serious.
Executions under Greg Abbott, Jan. 21, 2015-present10
Executions in Texas: Dec. 7, 1982present-528
Abbott#scheduled execution
Aug. 18
OHIO:
Court rejects inmate's challenge of death sentence for 5 slayings in 1993 Ohio
prison riot
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge by an inmate convicted and
sentenced to be executed for the slayings of 5 fellow inmates during a 1993
prison riot in Ohio.
Aug. 18
THAILAND:
Backpacker murder trial resumes in Thailand
The trial of 2 Myanmar nationals, accused of killing 2 British backpackers,
including 1 from Norfolk, resumed in southern Thailand on Tuesday (August 18)
with a focus on the reliability of crucial DNA evidence.
British
Aug. 18
CONNECTICUT:
Death penalty ended by judicial contrivance
Having determined 4 years ago that capital punishment was constitutional in
Connecticut, the state Supreme Court decided Thursday that it isn't
constitutional anymore, because of a law passed three years ago that
Aug. 18
IOWA:
Peter Neufeld of The Innocence Project to Deliver 35th Bucksbaum Lecture
The co-founder of an organization that seeks to exonerate wrongly convicted
inmates through DNA testing will deliver the 35th installment of the Martin
Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture Series at
Aug. 18
VIETNAM:
Vietnam court overturns death penalty for Nigerian drug mule
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday reduced a death sentence previously
handed to a Nigerian man for bringing methamphetamine into Vietnam to life
imprisonment, local media report.
The indictment said
Aug. 18
NEVADA:
Life or death: Jury to deliberate on Jeremiah Bean sentence
A Lyon County jury will begin deliberations today on whether Jeremiah Bean will
get life in prison or the death penalty.
Jurors have had an emotional week hearing tearful testimony from Bean's family
as
