Jan. 14
SAUDI ARABIAexecution
Saudi executes Yemeni for killing employer
Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Yemeni man for murdering and robbing his
employer, raising the number of death sentences already carried out by the
kingdom this year to 52.
Yaser Qawza broke into the
Jan. 14
FLORIDAimpending execution
Florida asks court to deny inmate's execution-delay request
Florida asked the state's high court on Thursday to reject a condemned inmate's
request to delay his execution based on the U.S. Supreme Court's finding that
its procedure for imposing
Jan. 14
ZAMBIA:
Abolish death penalty, says prisons deputy
Zambia Prisons Service deputy commissioner-general Lloyd Chilundika says the
death penalty is inhuman and should be abolished.
Mr Chilundika told the Parliamentary committee on legal affairs, governance,
human rights, gender
Jan. 14
TEXASimpending execution
Death Watch: Unhappy New YearMasterson found guilty of capital murder of
Shane Honeycutt, set to die Jan. 20
Texas goes to the gurney Wednesday, Jan. 20, with its 1st execution of the
calendar year. Set to die is Richard Allen Masterson, 43,
Jan. 14
ALABAMA:
Expert: Lethal injection consciousness check 'inadequate'
In a lawsuit challenging Alabama's death penalty protocol, Dr. Alan Kaye, chair
of Louisiana State University's Department of Anesthesiology, testified
Wednesday that the "consciousness check" used by the
