Waco judge admonishes defense mitigator in potential death penalty case
The Waco Tribune-Herald - News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Pamela Stites said all she was trying to do is save Robert Chavira Espinosa’s life.
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Poll: Majority of New Yorkers support death penalty in terror case
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers believe the terrorist thugs who planned the 9/11 attacks should and will be sentenced to death - and two-thirds of city residents say they'd be unafraid to serve on the jury.
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Germany, Hey Holder, You Can't Use Our Evidence For Death Penalty in Upcoming KSM & Fellow Terrorists Trial
The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Via Jammie Wearing FoolJustice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty.So...
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Poll finds broad support among New Yorkers for death penalty in Khalid Shaikh Mohammed terror case
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers believe the terrorist thugs who planned the 9/11 attacks should and will be sentenced to death - and two-thirds of city residents say they'd be unafraid to serve on the jury.
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DPP opposed to death penalty's return
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions, James Hamilton, yesterday expressed his opposition to the death penalty and warned that any move to reintroduce it in Ireland could lead to our isolation from Europe.
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Germany Concerned Its Evidence to Be Used to Back Death Penalty in 9/11 Trial
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty.
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Report: Fearing death penalty, Berlin to send team to 9-11 trial
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin - The German government is to send observers to New York to ensure that evidence it provided in the case against five men accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks does not lead to them receiving the death penalty, news magazine ...
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Death penalty ruled out in ex-Sacramento deputy's murder trial
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chu Vue He didn't pull the trigger and he used to wear the uniform of a deputy sheriff, and that's probably why prosecutors announced Friday they will not pursue the death penalty against Chu Vue, according to a criminal law expert. McGeorge School of Law professor Ruth Jones said in an interview that jurors usually have no problem convicting a defendant who arranged a murder, which Vue is accused...
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American convert to Islam endorses death penalty for apostasy
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
After this post, I decided to write to Umar Lee (with whom I've had some interaction in the past) and ask for an interview. Here is our exchange, in which he endorses the death penalty for apostasy in principle, just not at the moment in America. At very least, his...
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Russia confirms adherence to death penalty ban obligations
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
() -- Moscow will stick to its commitments on the abolishment of the death penalty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.Russia's Constitutional Court extended a moratorium on capital punishment earlier on Thursday. The court said that the ban, introduced in 1999, had begun an "irreversible process" toward the . The 1999 decision imposed a moratorium until jury trials were introduced...
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Beau Friedlander: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed And The Death Penalty: Why We Can't Kill Him
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There is no solving the problem of mass murder. We can only hope to move past it, and perhaps that the spiritual and emotional wounds of 9/11 will turn into the proud flesh of a new humanist outlook.
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OP-ED: Atty Donld Vish's special to the CJ re death penalty
Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I assume Donald won't mind the following posting: The death penalty has put the Constitution on a collision course with itself. The path to collision was cut and cleared in 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed states to reinstate the death penalty based on statutes that used a ‘guided discretion' template proposed by the Model Penal Code (MPC). The ‘guided discretion' approach was designed...
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Russian High Court Bans Death Penalty
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Moscow, Russia (AHN) – Russia announced on Thursday that it was reaffirming its ban on the death penalty. The announcement came ahead of a January 1 legal suspension date. The country’s Constitutional Court issued the ruling and said the use of death as a public deterrent to crime is now deemed impossible. The court cited the [...]
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Death penalty upheld in Mujib case
Hindu (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
DHAKA: The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has upheld the High Court verdict confirming death sentences for 12 former military officers in the assassination of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. A five-member ...
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9/11 trial a death penalty test for NYC juries
WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.