Aug. 17
TEXAS:
Looming Texas execution illustrates urgency of forgiveness
Next week Texas is scheduled to execute a death row inmate who never killed
anyone, and who may not even have known a crime was going to be committed. The
execution is not only out of touch with Pope Francis and t
Aug. 17
NEBRASKA:
Attorney general disputes death penalty costs
Attorney General Doug Peterson on Tuesday disputed the estimated $14.6 million
annual cost of retaining the death penalty in Nebraska cited a day earlier in a
study commissioned by supporters of ending capital punishment
Aug. 17
MALAYSIA:
Pain for mom of drug mule son on death row
As a young South African woman prepares for her 1st court appearance in
Thailand for drug trafficking, a mother, whose son faces the death penalty in
Malaysia for the same crime, has appealed to parents to warn their childre
Aug. 17
PAKISTAN:
COAS confirms death sentence to 11 hardcore terrorists
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday confirmed death
sentences awarded to another 11 hardcore terrorists.
According to the ISPR, those who have been awarded death penalty were found