May 26
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
The death penalty veto override that nearly wasn’t
Ahead of Thursday’s override vote in the House, advocates of repealing New
Hampshire’s death penalty had ridden a wave of encouragement for months,
propelled by an unshakable sense of inevitability. A bill to repea
May 26
CHINA:
Drug dealers sentenced to death in Shanxi
5 people were sentenced to death for drug dealing, according to a court in
north China's Shanxi Province.
Of the 23 people involved in the case, 3 received death sentences with a
reprieve, and 1 received a life sentence. The r