News tagged with “capital punishment”. Found:
71 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 71 tagged news reports
Lawmakers from region don’t favor moratorium
Bowling Green :: KY :: USA | about 15 hours ago
Credibility
The Daily News Saturday, November 28, 2009 12:19 AM CST A study on whether Kentucky accurately and fairly administers capital cases is upcoming. However, southcentral Kentucky lawmakers say they don’t believe a death penalty moratorium is necessary while...
Tags: Kentucky Supreme Court, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Kentucky Coalition, death penalty, ABA, capital cases, bowling green, Nancy Slonim, Ed Monahan, Sen. Mike Reynolds, Steve Beshear, Prosecutors, Texas Moratorium Network, Capital punishment in the United States, Social Issues, Capital punishment, Kentucky, Law Crime
Geoffrey Robertson: An immoral and unlawful decision
London :: United Kingdom | about 22 hours ago
Credibility The Home Secretary has decided he is powerless to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to Virginia, where he will be denied bail and sentenced to at least 10 years' imprisonment for an offence that would not deserve custodial sentence in Britain and...
Tags: Gary McKinnon, custodial sentenced, political protesters, european convention, cause damage, United Kingdom, London, Bill of Rights, UFOs, United States Bill of Rights, Cybercrime, Capital punishment, Extradition, Law Crime
Kentucky court temporarily suspends executions
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Executions were suspended in Kentucky Wednesday after its top court ruled the state must adopt and publish its protocols on the use of lethal injections. The case was brought forward by death row inmates who failed in 2008 to convince the US Supreme Court...
Tags: Kentucky Supreme Court, lethal injection, Chicago, Social Issues, Law Crime, Steve Beshear, Capital punishment in the United States, Kentucky, Ralph Baze, Capital punishment
Man trapped in Utah cave dies
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Man trapped in cave dies during rescue attempt (CNN) -- A man who was trapped for a day in a crevice in a Utah cave was killed as rescuers struggled to save him, authorities said Thursday. John Edward Jones, 26, was stuck in the Nutty Putty cave, a tourist...
Tags: Utah County Sheriff's Department, man stuck, utah cave, narrow cave, nutty putty, man trapped, John Jones, free man, stuck upside, crews working, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City metropolitan area, The Cave, Stansbury Park Utah, Utah, Tooele County Utah, Show caves, Crayola, Soft matter, Caving, films, Cave, KSL, Lethal injection, Provo-Orem metropolitan area, Rescue, Dow Chemical Company, Silly Putty, Capital punishment, Nebraska, Search and rescue
Corruption threatens the civil system of Pakistan ...by Amjad Malik
Beijing :: China | 3 days ago
Credibility The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) presented to the government a list of 248 politicians and bureaucrats, who were alleged to have plundered hundreds of billions of rupees but were cleared by the NAB under the National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007.
Tags: death penalty, including china & Pakistan, China, death sentence, Russians, public purse, Vietnamese National Assembly Deputies, fair trial, public office, extradition treaties, Beijing, Political corruption, Capital punishment in the People's Republic of China, National Reconciliation Ordinance, Social Issues, Charter of Democracy, Capital punishment, Law, Extradition, Accountability, Law Crime
Federal court to allow Dec. 8 execution in Ohio
Columbus :: OH :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Wednesday that the change renders moot Kenneth Biros’ argument that the state’s former policy using a three-drug vein injection is unconstitutional. A federal judge had temporarily delayed Biros’ execution but...
Tags: Kenneth Biros, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, lethal injection, ohio execution, federal court, Columbus, Romell Broom, Law Crime, Social Issues, Capital punishment, Capital punishment in the United States, Bautista, Joseph Lewis Clark, Participation of medical professionals in American executions, Death Penalty Information Center, Sodium thiopental, Ted Strickland
Ethiopia Asks Death Penalty For Coup Plotters
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 4 days ago
Credibility Twenty-seven of the defendants were tried and convicted last week. Thirteen others, most of them living in exile, were earlier found guilty in absentia. This VOA correspondent was in the courtroom as the 27 in custody pleaded for reduced sentences. One...
Tags: death penalties, Ethiopia, Mekonnen Bezadeih, Melaku Teferra, Addis Ababa, Capital punishment, Birtukan Mideksa, Meles Zenawi, Berhanu Nega, Law Crime, Social Issues, Politics
High court rules regulation needed for lethal injection
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility In a ruling that will indefinitely delay executions in Kentucky, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the procedure for putting an inmate to death by lethal injection must be spelled out in a state regulation. The high court ruled that in certain...
Tags: Kentucky Supreme Court, lethal injecting, court rules, Frankfort, Social Issues, Law Crime, Prosecutors, Lethal injection, Steve Beshear, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Baze v. Rees, Ralph Baze, Regulation, Year of birth missing, Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., Capital punishment in the United States, Kentucky, Capital punishment
Conway wants dates set for 3 executions
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Attorney General Jack Conway on Monday asked Gov. Steve Beshear to set execution dates for three death row inmates. Conway said in a statement that Ralph Baze Jr., Robert Foley and Gregory Wilson have exhausted all of their �matter of right� appeals...
Tags: Frankfort, Steve Beshear, Death row, Kentucky, Capital punishment in the United States, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Capital punishment, Penology, Criminology, Social Issues, Law Crime, Prosecutors
Lee County jury to consider death penalty for man convicted of infant son's death
Opelika :: AL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A jury in Lee County will consider imposing the death penalty on a 20-year-old man after convicting him last week of murdering his infant son. The 12-member jury was to meet Monday in Lee County Circuit Court to begin the penalty phase in the trial of...
Tags: Lee County Circuit Court, infant son, death penalty, Opelika, Murder, Opelika Alabama, Jury, Legal procedure, Capital punishment, Law Crime, Social Issues
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
