March 2
FLORIDAstay of impending execution
Supreme Court halts Florida's next-scheduled execution
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the execution of Mark James Asay,
just hours after hearing oral arguments in his case.
Asay, convicted in 1987 of 2 Jacksonville murders,
March 2
SOUTH KOREA:
Parliament passes anti-terrorism bill after 15 yrs
South Korea's ruling-party controlled parliament passed a long-stalled
anti-terrorism bill Wednesday amid possible terror threats from North Korea.
The government-backed bill, which bypassed the normal process an
March 2
PENNSYLVANIA:
Man seeks to represent self in death penalty trial
A man who wants to act has his own attorney in a death penalty murder case in
eastern Pennsylvania has been ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation before
he will be allowed to fire his attorneys.
26-year-old
March 2
IRELAND:
From death row to wedding vows: Watch how 1 couple found love after life
staring at execution"They could imprison us physically but not in our mind,
heart or spirit." The haunting words from former death row prisoners are ones
that are not usually repeated nearly 2
March 2
OHIO:
Grand jury returns death-penalty indictment in killings of mom, 2
A man who killed an ex-girlfriend on the North Side earlier this year fatally
stabbed her 2 children to eliminate them as witnesses, 1 of the conditions that
prosecutors said allows them to seek his executi
March 2
MAINE:
LePage right on return of death penalty
I applaud Gov. Paul LePage for his recent comments about injecting traffickers
with their own medicine, reinstituting the death penalty, and bringing back the
guillotine. I've been saying it for years in letters to the editor - Mai
