April 7
OHIO:
Convicted serial killer Sowell wants Ohio Supreme Court to reconsider death
sentence
An attorney for a convicted serial killer in Cleveland urged the state's high
court to remand the case for further legal proceedings, arguing errors in the
deliberations that lead to
April 7
TEXAS:
Executions under Greg Abbott, Jan. 21, 2015-present19
Executions in Texas: Dec. 7, 1982present-537
Abbott#scheduled execution date-nameTx. #
20-June 2---Charles Flores538
21-June
April 7
NORTH KOREA:
N. Korea is one of 11 nations with record of executions for past 5 yrs
The nongovernmental human rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has listed
North Korea as 1 of 11 countries that have carried out executions for the past
5 years, a U.S. media report said
April 7
NIGERIA:
AI Calls for Abolition of Death Sentence in Nigeria
Amnesty International (AI) has called for the abolition of death sentence in
Nigeria and all over the world, saying that there has been a 50 % increase in
the number of executions globally.
The Director of AI in
April 7
TEXAS:
A Texas man is due to die because he's black
Duane Buck was convicted in 1997 of murdering his ex-girlfriend and a male
friend. After a Texas jury determined that he was likely to pose a continuing
danger to society, it sentenced him to death. How did the jury conclude
