[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, N.C., ALA., OHIO, ARK.

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Halperin
March 27 TEXASimpending execution Lubbock's "suitcase killer" fights upcoming executionRosendo Rodriguez is set to die for killing a Lubbock prostitute and tossing her body in a dumpster in a suitcase. His final appeals claim the medical examiner's testimony that she was sexuall

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Halperin
March 27 GREAT BRITAIN: A brief history of capital punishment in BritainBetween the late 17th and early 19th century, Britain's 'Bloody Code' made more than 200 crimes - many of them trivial - punishable by death. Writing for History Extra, criminologist and historian Lizzie Seal co

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----MO., NEB., COLO., CALIF., USA

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Halperin
March 27 MISSOURI: May 2019 trial date set in 2016 Hannibal shooting death A 2019 trial date was set Monday for the Hannibal man charged in the January 2016 shooting death of a Hannibal woman and the shooting of her husband. Court records show that Timothy M. Brokes is set to go to t

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Halperin
March 27 TEXASexecution Texas executes inmate who killed woman, stuffed body in a suitcase Rosendo Rodriguez III, 38, was executed Tuesday evening in Huntsville for the 2005 murder of a Lubbock woman whose battered naked body was found stuffed in a suitcase that had been dumped in