August 9
SUDAN:
Sudan junta drops death penalty against rebel leaders
Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) has cancelled the death
penalty that was issued against Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North
(SPLM-N) leader Malik Agar, his deputy Yasir Arman, and 15 others
August 9
NEVADA:
Man with dismissed murder conviction still on death row in Nevada
Paul Browning is a freed man on Nevada’s death row.
Many of the key witnesses in the November 1985 stabbing death of jeweler Hugo
Elsen, including Elsen’s wife, Josy, have died.
District Judge Doug
numerical corrections to list below
USAimpending/scheduled executions
With the execution of Marion Wilson Jr. in Georgia on June 20, the USA has now
executed 1,500 condemned individuals since the death penalty was re-legalized
on July 2, 1976 in the US Supreme Court Gregg v Georgia
August 9
TEXASnew execution date
Local death row inmate set with execution date
District Attorney Randall Sims came forward with an official execution date for
the ongoing death penalty case for Travis Runnels.
Runnels has been on death row for 13 years for the murder of a prison
