May 22
PHILIPPINES:
Lacson wants death penalty for 'habitual' public fund stealers
Senator-elect Panfilo Lacson thinks if the death penalty will be reimposed,
those found guilty of plunder or even the crime of graft, especially if is a
"habit," should be subject to capital punishment.
May 22
IRAN:
23 executions in 2 days Iranian Resistance calls for saving the lives of
10 young prisoners facing the gallows
At a time when 23 prisoners were executed on May 17 and 18 in the prisons of
Urumieh, Tabriz, Yazd, Yasouj, Sari and Mashhad across Iran, another 10 young
May 22
KANSAS:
Floyd Bledsoe, wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years, pushes to end death penalty
in Kansas
A man who spent more than 15 years wrongfully imprisoned for a rape and murder
he did not commit shared his story in the basement of a Lawrence church on
Saturday, now on a
May 22
TEXAS:
Brownlow sentenced to death
Even up to the last moment before convicted murderer Charles E. Brownlow Jr.
was sentenced to death on Friday he tried to blame his father for the
executions he committed.
Brownlow was convicted of capital murder on April 28 for the Oct. 28,
