Sept. 16
PENNSYLVANIA:
DA to seek death penalty against ex-officer charged in death
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty in the case of a former suburban
Philadelphia police officer accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and wounding
her daughter.
32-year-old Stephen Rozniakowski
Sept. 16
IRANexecution
Prisoner hanged in western Iran
Iran's fundamentalist regime on Wednesday hanged a prisoner in the Kurdish city
of Sanandaj, western Iran.
The prisoner, identified as Raouf Hosseini, was hanged at dawn in Sanadaj's
central prison.
He had been on death row
Sept. 16
JAPAN:
Public support for death penalty not overwhelming, researchers say
Japanese may not be as enthusiastic about death row inmates being sent to the
gallows as previously believed.
A recent study by researchers shows public support for the death penalty in
Japan is n
Sept. 16
NEBRASKA:
Judge considers whether Lotter keeps attorneys during death penalty legal limbo
A federal judge hasn't ruled yet on whether a man on Nebraska's death row can
keep his court-appointed counsel.
But the question isn't whether John Lotter remains under a sentence of de
Sept. 16
OKLAHOMAimpending execution
Countdown to an Execution in Oklahoma
At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the State of Oklahoma plans to execute Richard Glossip
in the face of mounting evidence that he is innocent, as he has argued all
along.
Mr. Glossip was convicted of masterminding t
Sept. 16
TEXAS:
An Unfinished Prison Story
In 1967, Danny Lyon, a young photographer from New York who had spent the
beginning of his career documenting the civil-rights movement, was granted
permission by the Texas Department of Corrections to photograph freely inside
the state's pen
