Jan. 3
JAPAN:
Death Penalty Movie Week to be held at Tokyo theater
The annual Death Penalty Movie Week will be held at a Tokyo theater in
February, with 8 films from home and abroad providing viewers with an
opportunity to think about the "right to life."
The event will take place
Jan. 3
OHIO:
Trial set in latest challenge to Ohio death penalty process
Attorneys for death row inmates and lawyers for Ohio's prisons agency are back
in court this week in the latest challenge to the way the state puts condemned
killers to death.
The 4-day trial beginning
Jan. 3
TEXAS:
Brakes applied on death penalty cases
The death penalty is rare, even in Texas, where just 7 executions were carried
out last year. In some places, it's almost non-existent. In Dallas and Harris
Counties, not a single death sentence was handed down last year.
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