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Conway wants dates set for 3 executions
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | about 21 hours ago
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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
No escape from debt by selling jails | Sasha Abramsky
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 24 hours ago
Credibility No escape from debt by selling jails Arizona's plan to sell prisons to the highest bidder is a leap back in time for correctional thinking, and a recipe for fiscal disaster Here's an idea: sell off our prisons to the highest bidders, reap a pile of short-term...
Tags: Arizona Friends Service Committee, Dora Schriro, private prisoners, New York City, Joe Arpaio, Corrections officer, Criminal justice, Death row, Politics, Penology, Private prison, Prison
4 prepare for mercy plea
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 1 day ago
Credibility Meanwhile, families of three of the five met them in the jail yesterday for the first time since their appeals against the convictions and death sentences had been rejected by the Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Thursday. Towhidul Islam, senior...
Tags: lt col, Dhaka Central Jail, death row, Supreme Court Bar Association, Nafiza Huda, presidential clemency, Bangabandhu, Shahriar Rashid Khan, Towhidul Islam, Maj Bazlul Huda, Zimbabwe, Harare, Bangladesh Awami League, Jail Killing Day, Bangladesh Liberation War, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Pakistani politicians, Law Crime
Inmate on death row for killing Oakland couple dies at hospital
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Prison officials say a man convicted of a 1987 double murder has died of natural causes, 16 years after he was sent to death row at San Quentin State Prison...Sam Robinson says 53-year-old Cedric Harrison died at an outside hospital Thursday. He was awaiting...
Tags: East Oakland, West Oakland, Oakland, Death row, San Quentin, Prisons in California, Oakland California, San Quentin State Prison, Law Crime, Social Issues, Oakland High School, the United States, Highland Hospital, Thomason, BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant
Letters: Close death row
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility There's a deeply troubling pattern of US death-row prisoners waiving appeals after years in "lockdown" cells facing execution ( The condemned cells of Texas , 16 November). Rather than pressing ahead with killing prisoners who give up, the US authorities...
Tags: Troy Davis, death row, United Kingdom, London, Capital punishment, Penology, Social Issues, Law Crime
Inmate on death row 27 years dies
La Grange :: IL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A Kentucky death row inmate, who once played a role in a controversial clothing advertising campaign featuring condemned prisoners, has died 27 years after being sentenced to death. David Leroy Skaggs died just before 3 a.m. Wednesday at the Kentucky...
Tags: Kentucky State Penitentiary, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Kentucky State Reformatory, deaths row, David Leroy Skaggs, La Grange, Death row, Trinity murders, Lyon County Kentucky, Law Crime, Social Issues
Houston man set to die for 1993 double slaying
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility A condemned killer has been faking mental illness to try to avoid execution today evening for the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend and her daughter nearly 17 years ago in Houston, prosecutors say. But defense attorneys for Gerald Eldridge, 45, say...
Tags: Houston, death row, Huntsville, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Law Crime
People urged not to be scared
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 7 days ago
Credibility Home Minister Sahara Khatun on Tuesday said the law-enforcing agencies would adopt "whatever strategy necessary to maintain law and order across the country over the delivery of verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case". She came up with the reassuring...
Tags: enforcing agencies, Dhaka Central Jail, Bangabandhu, Sahara Khatun, death row, bangabandhu murder, final verdict, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Crimes against humanity, Criminal law, Murder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Liberation War, Crimes, Law Crime, Dhaka, Bangladesh Awami League, Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh rehana, Jail Killing Day, Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, South Asia, Mohammad Kamrul Islam, Sahara, Manikganj District, Geography of Africa
Texas accounts for half of executions in US – but now has doubts over death row
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Texas accounts for half of executions in US but now has doubts over death row Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state's rock-solid faith in capital punishment Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes...
Tags: Texas Forensic Science Commission, death penalty, capital punishment, death row, death sentenced, Albuquerque, Capital punishment in the United States, Capital punishment debate, Miscarriage of justice, Sharon Keller, Exoneration, Penology, Criminal procedure, Law Crime, Social Issues
Texas death row man claims inmates' numbered days are form of torture
Gaza :: Palestine | 8 days ago
Credibility Danielle Simpson's scrawled note to the appeal court left the judges in no doubt. "If I can't be free – Kill Me.!!" the Texas death row prisoner demanded in a rambling and sometimes incoherent handwritten plea earlier this year. "I'm tired of being in...
Tags: Chris McGreal Danielle Simpson, Murderer Danielle Simpson, death row, Texas Defenders Service, Geraldine Davidson, texas death, row prisoners, Palestine, Gaza, Meals, Patrick Knight, Capital punishment, Penology, Last meal, Social Issues, Law Crime
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