[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-04-16 Thread Rick Halperin
April 16 VIETNAM: Pinay meted death in Vietnam A court in Vietnam has sentenced another Filipino to death after she was found guilty of smuggling nearly 1.5 kilograms of cocaine into the communist country in 2013. The state newspaper Thanh Nien News reported that Donna Buena

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----OHIO, TENN., CALIF., USA

2016-04-16 Thread Rick Halperin
April 16 OHIO: Death penalty still possible for Youngstown triple murder suspect The death remains a possibility in the case of 48-year-old Robert Seman, who is accused of raping a 10-year-old girl then setting a fire to kill her and her grandparents. Judge Maureen Sweeney denied

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, PENN., N.C., S.C., GA., ALA.

2016-04-16 Thread Rick Halperin
April 16 TEXAS: Texas prisons leader Brad Livingston will retire this year Brad Livingston, Texas Department of Criminal Justice's executive director for more than a decade, announced Friday that he will retire in August. Livingston joined the agency in 1997 as deputy director of the