April 15
GLOBAL:
China remains the world’s top executioner-Amnesty International
Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at
least a decade, Amnesty International said in its 2018 global review of the
death penalty published today.
The statistics
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TEXASimpending execution
Final Execution Set in James Byrd Jr.'s 1998 Murder Case
On a spring night 21 years ago, James Byrd Jr. was looking for a ride back to
his Jasper, Texas, home. The men who offered it to him viciously murdered Byrd
in a crime that shocked the nat
