[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Halperin
March 23 NIGERIAimpending execution 3 years after, killer of 11 police to die by hanging The Oporoma Judicial Division of the High Court in Bayelsa State has sentenced to death by hanging 1 of the killers of the 11 policemen at Lobia 2 community in Southern Ijaw Local Government

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, N.Y., PENN., VA., N.C., S.C., OHIO, KAN.

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Halperin
March 23 TEXAS: With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man Adam Kelly Ward, a severely mentally ill Texas man sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of 44-year-old Michael Walker, was executed Tuesday evening by lethal injection. Ward, 33, was the 9th

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Halperin
March 23 TEXAS: Honduran man on Texas death row loses federal appeal A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Honduran man on Texas death row for beating and strangling a Houston woman during a robbery at her home more than 20 years ago. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Halperin
March 23 PAKISTAN: Since lifting of moratorium: 353 convicts hanged since Dec 2014, SC told The federal government on Tuesday informed the top court that 353 death-row prisoners have been hanged in the country after the lifting of moratorium on capital punishment in the wake of a

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ALA., OHIO, CALIF.

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Halperin
March 23 ALABAMA: Mother, boyfriend, charged in 22-month-old's death Shannon Dale Gargis took a long breath and let out a sigh when Franklin County District Judge Paula McDowell told him he would face the death penalty. Seconds later, standing in front of McDowell, dressed in a