[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide----Urgent Action Update: 14 Saudi Arabian Men At Imminent Risk Of Execution (Saudi Arabia: UA 180.17)

2017-07-24 Thread Rick Halperin
Urgent Action 14 SAUDI ARABIAN MEN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION Fourteen Saudi Arabian men are at imminent risk of execution after their families learned on 23 July that the Supreme Court has ratified their death sentences. On 1 June 2016, the men were sentenced to death penalty after a

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2017-07-24 Thread Rick Halperin
July 24 JAPAN: Ministry moves away from deferring executions of convicts seeking retrial Under certain circumstances, executions are carried out quietly even if a death row convict is in the process of appealing for a retrial. Will the recent executions of 2 male death row convicts b

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----OHIO

2017-07-24 Thread Rick Halperin
July 24 OHIOimpending execution Execution set for Wednesday puts Ohio back in national spotlight Had she lived, Sheila Marie Evans would be 27 years old. She was just 3 when, over 2 or 3 days in January 1993, she was beaten, repeatedly raped anally, thrown against a wall and pun