[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2016-11-13 Thread Rick Halperin
Nov. 13 MAURITANIA: Mauritanian clerics urge for blogger's death penalty to be applied Muslim clerics in Mauritania on Sunday urged the authorities to execute a blogger who was sentenced to death in 2014 for apostasy after writing a blog post on Islam and recial discrimination.

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----CONN., GA., ALA., ARIZ., ORE.

2016-11-13 Thread Rick Halperin
Nov. 13 CONNECTICUT: 2 Connecticut killers' appeals headed to state Supreme Court The appeals of 2 convicted killers sentenced to lethal injection before Connecticut's death penalty was abolished are set to go before the state Supreme Court. The separate cases of Sedrick Cobb and