[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2017-07-14 Thread Rick Halperin
July 14 JAPAN: Rights group slams Japan's latest executions as 'inhumane' as 2 murderers are hangedThe deaths bring the total number since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012 to 19 Japan executed 2 convicted murderers on Thursday, the justice ministry said, ignoring

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----LA., OHIO, MO., NEB., WYO., USA

2017-07-14 Thread Rick Halperin
July 14 LOUISIANA: Attorney in Alexandria fatal shooting to file competency motion An Alexandria man facing the death penalty for a fatal February shooting was agitated from the time he was brought into a Rapides Parish courtroom Thursday morning. Timothy Teasley, 25, faces

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, VA., S.C., GA., FLA.

2017-07-14 Thread Rick Halperin
July 14 TEXAS: Hogan Lovells Argues Disbarred Lawyer's 'Mouthpiece' Doomed Death Row Inmate In a Texas death row case in which a disbarred lawyer may have previously represented the defendant, a Hogan Lovells team has joined with local Texas counsel to try to derail an execution set