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Capital Punishment

Ohio death row inmate appeals to US Supreme Court

Lawyers for an Ohio death row inmate who unsuccessfully argued that he is too fat to die by lethal injection have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Tuesday's execution. The Ohio Public Defender's Office filed...

Daily Star Political News: Najjar presents draft law to abolish death penalty

Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar presented a draft law to the Cabinet on Friday that would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison at hard labor. In a press release issued by the Justice Ministry's media...

Prosecutors won't seek death penalty in July homicide

NEWARK -- Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty against a Newark man accused of shooting his father in late July and keeping the body in their home, according to a press release from Licking County Prosecutor Ken Oswalt.

Start of Jolly death penalty trial likely to be delayed

It's unlikely that the case of a Macon man charged with fatally shooting a Bibb County deputy in 2006 will go to trial as scheduled in January, according to the Bibb County District Attorney's Office.

Muslim convert wife and child will survive, uncle tells Daily News

CAIRO: Miriam Atef Khella, whose husband was killed by her brother due to her conversion to Islam, will survive along with her nine-month-old daughter, Sami Saleh, the deceased's uncle told Daily News Egypt.Khella, 25, was shot...

Correlate activities and considerations to avert double tax in EPC

D. Murali Appropriate structuring of EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contracts is essential to minimise both direct and indirect tax costs, says Mr Satish Aggarwal, Partner, Ernst & Young. “EPC contracts include...

HRCP calls for abolishing death penalty

Saturday, October 11, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE THE Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to end the death penalty in the country with placing an immediate moratorium on executions...

Marcyniuk Asks Judge To Toss Death Penalty

By Ron Wood THE MORNING NEWS FAYETTEVILLE -- A West Fork man charged with killing University of Arkansas student Katie Wood is asking the judge to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. Zachariah Scott Marcyniuk, 29, is...

DA to decide on seeking death penalty

Bailey's body was found Sept. 12. Jesse James DeConto, Staff Writer Comment on this story HILLSBOROUGH - Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall plans to announce Oct. 28 whether he'll pursue the death penalty against six...

Charges filed against Highlands murder suspect; prosecutor won't seek death penalty

The Cowlitz County Prosecutor Friday filed first-degree murder charges against Anthony Michael James Scott, who allegedly killed a Longview woman and wounded her husband Tuesday. Prosecutor Sue Baur also is charging Scott, 19,...