Capital Punishment

                   

Kootenai County closes its case

spokesmanreview.com     28-Aug-2008          

Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas has issued a statement noting that under the plea agreement he reached with Joseph Duncan in the state case, his death sentence on federal charges now concludes the case there. If...                    

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Jury votes for the death penalty for notorious gangster

latimes.com     28-Aug-2008          

A Los Angeles jury today voted for the death penalty for a notorious street gang leader convicted of committing three murders during a four-year rampage that included an attempted ambush murder of two police officers....                    

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Iran hangs second teenage killer

bbc.co.uk     27-Aug-2008   3 related          

Iran has some of the highest execution rates in the world Human rights organisations have condemned the execution of another juvenile offender in Iran on Tuesday. Behnam Zare was the second Iranian in a week to be put to...                    

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Duncan wants death penalty jury to have 'epiphany'

billingsgazette.net     27-Aug-2008   3 related          

BOISE, Idaho - The death penalty hearing of Joseph Duncan III is nearing a close and his standby lawyers say the confessed child killer wants the jury to have an "epiphany" when considering his fate. The comments came as...                    

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Swiss exonerate woman beheaded in 1782 in last European witch execution

startribune.com     27-Aug-2008   14 related          

By THOMAS BRUNNER , Associated Press BERN, Switzerland - A woman beheaded after she was accused of causing a girl to spit pins and convulse was exonerated Wednesday, more than 200 years after she became the last person...                    

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Inmate, 24, who escaped surrenders to authorities

signonsandiego.com     27-Aug-2008          

SAN DIEGO: An inmate who escaped Sunday night from a minimum-security area at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa turned himself in yesterday at his sister's residence in San Diego, authorities said....                    

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Bali bombers seek choice on execution method

theage.com.au     27-Aug-2008   2 related          

THE Bali bombers want the choice of being executed by hanging, injection or beheading, an Indonesian Constitutional Court challenge to their death penalties heard yesterday. Lawyers for Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra...                    

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Abolish death penalty at earliest: rights body

nerve.in     27-Aug-2008          

Chandigarh, Aug 27 - The organisation of death penalty in India is strikingly defective and the only remedy to this is to abolish it completely from the country at the earliest, Amnesty International India - has said....                    

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Liberia: UN Body Condemns Dealth Penalty

allafrica.com     27-Aug-2008   4 related          

The United Nations Human Rights Committee expressed deep concern today at new death penalty legislation authorized by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, contravening an international treaty on civil and political...                    

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The homegrown face of terror

indiatimes.com     27-Aug-2008   17 related          

JAIPUR: These terrorists needed no external help. From planning to execution, it was all done locally. Going by the findings of the Rajasthan probe agencies, the terror group, mostly the hardline cadres of the outlawed...                    

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