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

2016-09-23 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 23 DELAWARE: Del. Supreme Court to decide fate of those on death row The Delaware Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether or not to convert the sentences of men on death row to life in prison before the end of the year. After narrowly ruling that the state's death penalt

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-09-23 Thread Rick Halperin
Sept. 23 CANADA: Feb. 3, 1953: Last hanging at Hamilton's Barton Jail Harry Lee, last man to hang in Hamilton, was convicted of murdering Mary Rosenblatt. The last person sentenced to the death penalty in Hamilton and hanged at the Barton Jail was a man named Harry Lee, a synago