Oct. 14
TEXAS:
Journey of hope speakers ask students to reconsider the death penalty
The Law Center, in conjunction with the Graduate College of Social Work, hosted
a talk on the death penalty Monday at the University Center to promote
forgiveness during times of loss and hopelessness.
Oct. 14
MISSOURI:
Scherrer could face death penalty
The St. Francois County man who is accused of killing a tattoo artist and
leaving his body in a septic tank is now facing the possibility of the death
penalty.
Melvin Scherrer, 51, who lived in Cedar Lake outside Bonne Terre at t
Oct. 14
INDIA:
TN contractor sentenced to death for setting ablaze 3 workers
A local court today sentenced a contractor from Tamil Nadu to death for killing
6 of his workers by setting them on fire in their room here 6
years ago, holding that it would fall in the category of "rarest o
Oct. 14
TEXASimpending execution
Sometimes, sadly, the death penalty is the only justice left
Let the record show that I was against the death penalty before I was for it.
OK, the uncomfortable truth is that my feelings about capital punishment are
complicated, wrought with the sen
Oct. 14
SAUDI ARABIA:
How the kingdom treats the people it is going to execute
Prisoners who have been sentenced to death can spend years kept in communal
cells alongside other inmates
Saudi Arabia’s justice system is notoriously brutal and the country has one of
the highest execu
Oct. 14
TEXASexecution
Texas executes inmate for Dallas police officer’s 2001 death
A man already being sought for a neighbor’s slaying when he killed a Dallas
police officer outside a club was executed Wednesday.
Licho Escamilla was given a lethal injection for the November 2001
