kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The jurors had been summoned, and the death penalty defense team was prepared for trial. But as the capital murder case against Ataven Tatum accused of a quadruple homicide was set to begin Monday, the Wyandotte County district attorney's office filed a motion to dismiss the charges.
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
The jurors had been summoned, and the death penalty defense team was prepared for trial. But as the capital murder case against Ataven Tatum — accused of a quadruple homicide — was set to begin Monday, the Wyandotte County district attorney’s office filed a motion to dismiss the charges.
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
That's the title of an OpEd in the Baltimore Examiner by Michael May, an attorney and former Baltimore police officer. LINKI spent 10 years as a law enforcement officer, including seven in the Baltimore Police Department. So I am no...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Iraqi court sentenced on Tuesday Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death for his role in crushing Shiite uprising after 1991 Gulf War. Ali Hassan al-Majid, was sentenced to death in June 2007 in another trial for charges of ordering the killing of thousands of Kurds during the 1988 campaign of Anfal. On August 21, 2007, the Iraqi High Tribunal began its trial for15 aides of former president...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda has criticised human rights activists for advocating for the abolition of the death penalty.
ACLU Bog of Rights (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
In July 2008, the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project Director John Holdridge was interviewed on Pacifica Radio about the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice report on the death penalty. John was interviewed with Bill Babbitt(PDF), whose brother Manny was executed by California in 1999. They discussed how [...]
Code Monkey Ramblings (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
It's offensive to the sensibilities of most normal, decent people to even think about executing a child, and with good reason. We tend to find that most serious criminal conduct on the part of children can be traced very easily...
Searching the Inner Me... (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Rome, Bruxelles, Madrid, Toronto, Berlin, Barcelona, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, Austin, Dallas, Antwerpen, Wien, Paris, Copenhagen, Stokholm, Bogotà, Santiago (Chile), Abidjan, Lomè, Conakry, Maputo, Windhoek, Dakar, Praia (Prague), Naples, Florence, Reggio Emilia, Venice… On November 30, monuments in nearly 1000 cities across the globe will light up to celebrate “Cities for Life - Cities...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
CRIMINAL COURT judge and television personality Judge Joe Brown has accomplished much in in 61 years.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
SW PARRA Fresno Bee It's a matter of justice Re "Death chamber protocol on hold" (Page A3, Nov. 25): How much longer must we wait in this state for the will of the people to be carried out? The death penalty is legal in California. It was made law by popular vote. I, for one, am sick and tired of the legal hocus-pocus being used to stall the execution of these condemned criminals. The concern over...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
David Evans Sr. is one of the oldest souls locked up in the Scioto County Jail, and if convicted at trial in January, he could become one of the oldest people ever sentenced to death in Ohio
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
For quite some time, prosecutors were prevented from offering "victim impact" evidence during the penalty phase of a death penalty trial. This made perfect sense, because the decision whether a murderer should be executed shouldn't depend upon how sympathetic the victim could be made to appear, or how many grieving friends and relatives were left behind. That changed in 1991. Writing for a 6 to 3...
Crablaw's Maryland Weekly (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Soccer Dad has a good post on the state of Maryland's death penalty. I don't know that his piece makes the sale for me for the death penalty itself, but it does a great job of debunking a lot of the theoretical, practical and political opposition to it in Maryland. I am not sold that the death penalty is administered in a racially discriminatory manner in Maryland; like Soccer Dad, I don't see a large...
Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
State Rep Harold Dutton of Houston has filed HB 297 to abolish the death penalty in Texas.
Jamaia Star (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
In recent weeks, Parliament has been busy debating the issue of the death penalty. Each of the 60 members, or those present, may, if he or she desires,vote according to conscience and ignore the party line ...
