tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140273312011-04-21T16:19:25.233-04:00THIS PAGE WILL HOST DEATH PENALTY NEWS ARTICLES. I KNOW THAT I WILL NOT CATCH ALL OF THEM...PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MAKE ME AWARE OF ANY THAT YOU FEEL SHOULD BE HERE.Joe's Sweet Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16867047184016870541noreply@blogger.comBlogger1131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14027331.post-1126810443597490822005-09-15T14:22:00.000-04:002005-09-15T14:54:03.606-04:00

FRANCES NEWTON: 1965-2005in Peace at last.Into Paradise May the Angels Lead You....... By Gloria RubacHoustonThere are times when I am truly angered, embarrassed, sickened and left feeling numb by the actions of my country. The execution of Frances Newton brings all of these and many more emotions that stun me to the very core of my being. Published Sep 15, 2005 1:47 AMSept. 14-The State of

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Frances Newton and the Prospects for a New AbolitionismBy JUSTIN E.H. SMITHAs I write this, Frances Newton is waiting to be executed in a prison south of Huntsville, Texas, having seen her most recent request for clemency denied by the Supreme Court. If the sentence is carried out, she will be the third woman executed in the state since the Civil War, and the first black woman. By the time anyone

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By Robert JensenSep 14, 2005, 20:55Editor's Note: This essay is excerpted from The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, forthcoming from City Lights, September 2005.The United States is a white country. By that I don't just mean that the majority of its citizens are white, though they are (for now but not forever). What makes the United States white is not the fact

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Thanks to Scott Taylor for sending this:Here's an excerpt from this morning's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.Exchange is between Roberts and Sen. Leahy...LEAHY: And usually, far more than the Congress or anybody else, it's been the media that's exposed when this has been overdone, when mistakes or violations are done. And I would hope that you would be committed to

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Dale S. Recinella left his law firm to become a lay Catholic chaplain to condemned prisoners in the Bible Belt. When he realized good Christians were supporting the death penalty because they thought it was in the Bible, he began to research the issue. The results were surprising.By William BoleFor Dale S. Recinella, death row is a family affair. Since walking away from a high-powered law firm in

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LAST REQUEST - OHIO DR PRISONER HOPES TO SEE DYING FATHERJason Robb is on Ohio's death row, but housed in the Supermax prison at Youngstown instead of with most of the OH DR population at Mansfield. If you have read Staughton Lynn's book about the Lucasville uprising, you will know about this case, and you will know that Jason Robb is quite likely innocent of the murder for which he is awaiting

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From CEDP National Office:In memory of Frances Newton, we should remember the last words spoken by Shaka Sankofa who, like Frances, was executed by the state of Texas despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.“This is nothing more than pure and simple murder. This is what is happening tonight in America. Nothing more than state sanctioned murders, state sanctioned lynching, right here in

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A teen friend of Troy Victorino's suggests a man who wasn't at the house the night of the slayings enraged the suspect.Kristen Reed Sentinel Staff WriterPosted September 14, 2005The woman investigators have said was the main focus of the attackers in the Deltona massacre might not have been the primary target.It might have been her boyfriend and another man -- a friend who wasn't at the Telford

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BERNALILLO - Zacharia Craig offered no reaction to a judge's refusal to remove the death penalty from consideration if a jury finds him guilty of killing a State Police officer four years ago.That flat effect is a symptom of the mental illness a psychologist says Craig, 23, is afflicted with and likely suffered to an even greater degree Aug. 1, 2001, when authorities say he mowed down State

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By BRENDAN RILEYASSOCIATED PRESSCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The state Supreme Court was urged Tuesday to overturn the death sentence ordered for Alfonso "Slinky" Blake, an aspiring R&B artist convicted of killing two women and shooting a third in the southern Nevada desert.Robert Miller, deputy Clark County public defender, told the high court that the trial judge in Blake's case erred in letting

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September 13, 2005Randolph County- As their feet hit the pavement, members and supporters of the Prison and Jail Project are focused on fighting injustice. It's a road they say is long and hard, but can be victorious."This year we're lifting up the Lena Baker tragedy, as we come into Cuthbert over the next few days we'll be talking about her life, tragic execution death, and it's just

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States' rights, power of president, world law at issue in Mexican's case8:46 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 13, 2005By ALLEN PUSEY / The Dallas Morning NewsWASHINGTON – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to hear arguments Wednesday that will place the court between the rock of a controversial death penalty case and the hard place of international law.And to increase the stakes, the

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Frances Newton has been on death row since she was convicted of killing her husband and two children in 1987.Associated Press fileFrances Newton has been on death row since she was convicted of killing her husband and two children in 1987.HUNTSVILLE — Frances Newton was executed today for the fatal shootings of her husband and two children 18 years ago, becoming the third woman, and first black

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After years of delays, jury selection started Monday. Citing pretrial publicity, the defense asks the judge to move the trial to Pinellas County.By JAMAL THALJI, Times Staff WriterPublished September 13, 2005DADE CITY - Potential jurors in the trial of Gary Steven Cannon were warned right away Monday about what they will face if chosen to decide his guilt or innocence."This is a charge of

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Steve Esdale is determined to prove that his father, Murray Cohen, was killed by his wife, Maria Cohen.FDLE will take another look at Sarasota man's deathBy MATTHEW DOIGmatthew.doig@heraldtribune.comSARASOTA COUNTY -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement plans to renew its inquiry into whether a Sarasota man who appeared to die of heart failure in 2003 actually was murdered.Gov. Jeb Bush

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Woman's execution scheduled for Wednesday in slaying of family08:31 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 13, 2005Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Texas – The gun inside 7-year-old Alton Newton's blue knapsack was the focus of the last-ditch legal battle lawyers were fighting in hopes of keeping the slain boy's mother out of the Texas death chamber Wednesday.Frances Newton Frances Newton, 40, faced lethal

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Kimmo Suominen finds that abolition is the only standard by which capital punishment can be judged to be fair.Combat Law, Volume 2, Issue 2 -Myth No. 1: Death Penalty results in reduced rates of homicides, murders and serious crimes in a society.This is the most common myth which works in favour of imposition of death penalty. Typically, people believe that if there were possibility to be

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Court to hear pivotal death penalty appeal08:46 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 13, 2005By ALLEN PUSEY / The Dallas Morning NewsWASHINGTON – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to hear arguments Wednesday that will place the court between the rock of a controversial death penalty case and the hard place of international law.And to increase the stakes, the space in between involves

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In West Palm Beach, a man whose death sentence was vacated by the state Supreme Court has been sentenced to life in prison, 5 years after he pleaded guilty to the slayings of three people during a Thanksgiving Day robbery.Thomas Thibault was sentenced Monday after prosecutors agreed to not seek the death penalty again."He told the truth from the beginning and gave these families some sense of

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Death row inmate John Spirko will not face his scheduled execution later this month. His time on death row has been extended by at least 56 days.Last week, Gov. Bob Taft ordered a new clemency hearing for Spirko after the Ohio Parole Board took the unprecedented step of asking for a chance to reconsider his case.Given the significant doubts surrounding Spirko's capital conviction, one can only

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John Spirko, facing execution on Nov. 15 for kidnapping and murdering a Van Wert County postmaster, turned again to a Cincinnati-based appeals court for help yesterday.Spirko, 59, filed an appeal with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to overturn last week's decision refusing to open a new round of appeals by U.S. District Court Judge James Carr in Toledo. Spirko's lawyers argued

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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND UNBELIEVABLY DISTURBINGRASHMI ROSHAN LALLTIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2005 11:30:58 PM ]LONDON: Exactly one week after Europe's political and corporate heavyweights schmoozed with 'the inscrutable Chinaman', as part of the EU-China summit, Western capitals and human rights campaigners have recoiled with horror at news reports alleging a Chinese

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By Joan D. LaGuardiajlaguardia@news-press.comPublished by news-press.com on September 12, 2005State Attorney Steve Russell will seek the death penalty against Jeremy Chapman, who is accused of killing Annamarie Cruz Randazzo, 17, and John Hardin, 66, both of Cape Coral.Russell filed notices to seek the death penalty in both pending first degree murder cases.Chapman, 23, was indicted by the Lee

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APSeptember 13, 2005KIGALI, Rwanda: A Belgian missionary has been charged with inciting and helping plan the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than half a million people were killed.A Rwandan gacaca, or community court, initially heard the charges but referred the case of Guy Theunis, 60, to a conventional court after classifying him as a category-one genocide suspect - reserved for alleged

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EDITORIAL BOARD - Austin American StatesmanMonday, September 12, 2005Maybe Frances Newton shot her husband and two children to death in 1987. Maybe she didn't. The public cannot be certain of her guilt, but she's going to die for the crime anyway.Newton was denied a basic requirement for a fair trial — a competent lawyer. Her attorney at trial was the notorious Ron Mock, whose shoddy work in

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JACK ELLIOTT JR.Associated PressJACKSON, Miss. - Two Mississippi death row inmates, including the only woman in the group, are back before the state Supreme Court this term seeking new trials.The appeals of Michelle Byrom and Justin Underwood are among dozens the Supreme Court will decide based on written briefs submitted by attorneys.Michelle Byrom is back before the court on a post-conviction

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Jim Greer, Houston Business JournalHouston is bringing some order to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which is relocating from New Orleans to the Bayou City in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The New Orleans building that had housed the Fifth Circuit courthouse and offices has shut down amid the Louisiana city's massive flooding and widespread loss of electricity.Operations of the key court

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ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAssociated PressCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Bob Taft's decision to delay an execution, while a victory for death penalty opponents, isn't seen as signaling a change in the state's approach to capital punishment.Taft last week postponed for two months the Sept. 20 execution of John Spirko, who was convicted of killing a village postmistress in 1982, over questions of whether

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He could get the death penalty for the 2003 slayings near Winter Haven.By Jason GearyThe LedgerBARTOW -- As jurors took their seats, the crowd inside the small courtroom Friday seemed to hold its breath.Some struggled to hold back tears and sobs. Others sniffled quietly and held each other tight.Standing up straight, Thomas Rigterink, 33, listened as the jury found him guilty in the brutal

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The plight of poor blacks who could not escape Hurricane Katrina offers a twist on the popular "Left Behind" series about the people who remain on Earth after the Rapture.It also gives a new dimension to Sister Helen Prejean's mission to eliminate the death penalty.Herself one of hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the disaster, she is going forward with her fall speaking schedule -

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Sister Prejean says Louisiana judges will be unable to review death penalty casesBy BOB ARNDORFERGainesville SunHURRICANE KATRINAGAINESVILLE, FLA. - Hurricane Katrina forced Sister Helen Prejean and about 60 other nuns to flee their New Orleans Mother House last week and relocate indefinitely to Baton Rouge.But the catastrophe had an effect on something else to which the woman known as "the

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Daniels, Kernan cited solid reasons for mercyBy Lesley Stedman Weidenbenerlstedman@courier-journal.comThe Courier-JournalINDIANAPOLIS -- For nearly five decades, no Indiana governor chose to spare the life of anyone on death row.The state executed a dozen inmates during that period, which included a brief span when the U.S. Supreme Court put a moratorium on capital punishment.But in the past 13

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Minors commit murder In this era of sophisticated brain research, should they be charged and tried as adults?BY KAY HARVEYPioneer PressJames Lundquist remembers when he first realized the horror of taking another person's life.It happened when he turned 22 — a year older than the woman he fatally shot through the window of a moving car in St. Paul.Scott Tomlinson fondly wears his sister's

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Zero tolerance for prosecutors who shortcut justiceProsecutors like Ken Honeycutt and Scott Brewer do justice no favors when they hold winning in higher regard than pursuing justice. The N.C. State Bar has accused the two ex-prosecutors of misconduct, saying they lied to the court and withheld evidence in a case that put a man on death row for seven years.In the past, the state bar has given only

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Prisoners learn about their actions on victimsAmy Sowder@PensacolaNewsJournal.comUniversity of West Florida professor Cheryl Swanson has the most captive audience when she teaches.That's because the classroom is not on campus but at the W.C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., a lifetime home for many inmates.Holman is a maximum-security prison where death sentences are carried out by

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By Steve MillsTribune staff reporterPublished September 10, 2005, 11:45 AM CDTGeorge Ryan waits on a sidewalk downtown, wife Lura Lynn beside him, both of them looking for their van and a ride home.Behind him is the DePaul University law school, where, to great praise and applause, he has just told the improbable story of how he—a small-town pharmacist by training, a politician by trade—came to

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Governor Taft today issued the following statement regarding the Ohio Parole Board rehearing John Spirko clemency case."Based on the Ohio Parole Boards request, I have issued a warrant of reprieve for inmate John Spirko, delaying his execution date to November 15, 2005. "I support the Parole Boards decision to accept the proposal from both the Attorney General and counsel for inmate Spirko to

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NEWS RELEASE -- MEDIA ADVISORY -- September 8, 2005FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate Scheduled for Clemency HearingThe Ohio Parole Board will conduct the clemency hearing for death row inmate John Spirko, #171433, on October 12, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. The hearing will take place at the Adult Parole Authority Office located at 1030 Alum Creek Drive, Columbus, Ohio. Any media wishing to attend should arrive

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Another Texas death row case marked by official carelessness, negligence, and intransigenceBY JORDAN SMITH Unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Rick Perry act to stop it, on Sept. 14 Frances Newton will become only the third woman executed by the state of Texas since 1982, and the first black woman executed since the Civil War.Unique in that historical sense, in other ways the

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By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSThe Associated PressThursday, September 8, 2005; 8:37 PMCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. Bob Taft delayed the execution Thursday of a convicted killer over questions about whether prosecutors presented inaccurate information at a clemency hearing.Taft ordered the execution of John Spirko delayed until Nov. 15 to allow for a second hearing, which had been requested by the parole

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The New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears East Texas federal cases, began to preside over cases at its "emergency command post" in Houston on Wednesday.While the court remains closed for new matters since it was displaced by Hurricane Katrina, some oral argument panels have rescheduled certain cases to be heard in Houston at the district court, according to the appeals

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Four years ago, when the state legislature passed the Texas Fair Defense Act (Senate Bill 7), Houston Senator Rodney Ellis made the observation that "poor defendants get a poor defense" in Texas. It was an assessment that even many tough-on-crime Republicans found difficult to dispute.As part of Bexar County's ongoing effort to improve the quality of representation for indigent defendants, the

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The General Assembly adjourned for the year without passing a moratorium on the death penalty to give the state of North Carolina time to examine its practices and procedures and to determine whether it administers the ultimate punishment fairly and only in cases where guilt is incontrovertible.Meanwhile, evidence continues to mount that people have been sent to death row in North Carolina

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Dear Death Row Prisoner or Witness,This is to thank you for your letters, your documents, your testimony, and your good wishes, and to give you some idea of where matters stand at this point. And thank you to the prisoner who pointed out to me that in my last form letter there was a typo: Central Office was expected to complete reviewing the mental health assessments by September 30 this year,

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Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking" and "The Death of Innocents," is shown at Holy Faith Catholic Church on NW 43rd Street."The beauty of being Catholic is that we can be pro-life across the board." hurricane Katrina forced Sister Helen Prejean and about 60 other nuns to flee their New Orleans Mother House last week and relocate indefinitely to Baton Rouge.But the catastrophe had

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By James Shappell, Staff writerMILTON -- An omnibus hearing for Fredil Omar Rodriguez-Fuentes, the 23-year-old awaiting trial for the murder of 20-year-old Carly Snyder in June in Milton, was scheduled to take place at 10:45 a.m. today in the Northumberland County Courthouse.The purpose of the hearing is to hear arguments to suppress incriminating comments given by Rodriguez-Fuentes, to hear an

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Defense Attorney Wants Taped Statement Kept Out Of TrialLOUISVILLE -- A man accused of killing his wife and their son returned to court Thursday.For the first time, the statement he gave to police right after he was arrested was played for the court, WLKY NewsChannel 32's Julia Harding reported.Just after Christmas 2003, Betty Jean Windsor and 8-year-old Corey Windsor were found dead in their

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By Harry T. Darby / PUBLISHERWriter, musician, and now politician Richard "Kinky" Friedman barnstormed the Big Bend region over the Labor Day holiday drumming up support of his 2006 Gubernatorial campaign."Today, Texans have no choice for their leadership except paper or plastic," said Friedman on his decision to run for office. "Texas was founded by independent, courageous, honorable citizens.

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JACKSONVILLE, FL (AP) -- Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a man charged with kidnapping a Jacksonville couple and burying them alive in Georgia.Bruce Nixon Junior is being held without bond on charges of murder, kidnapping and robbery. Three persons arrested in South Carolina on financial fraud also face murder charges in the case.Prosecutors say they will also file a

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Jury Recommends Death Penalty In Father-Son MurdersPOSTED: 9:07 am EDT September 8, 2005JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A jury has recommended two death sentences for a man convicted in the 2004 shooting deaths of a Jacksonville man and his 13-year-old son.Thomas Bevel After two hours of deliberations, the jury unanimously recommended that Thomas Bevel, 24, be executed for killing Mayport Middle School

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Texas Toughest in a Tough America[Finding Blue America 13] The world capital of capital punishment, Huntsville, Texas"Have a seat."We often hear these words, but sometimes there could be none more horrible. I was looking at the electric chair at the Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas.Its nickname was "Old Sparky," on which 361 people sat and never stood up again. Old Sparky retired in 1964 when

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FOP asks judge to condemn Spencer to deathTuesday, September 06, 2005CAROL ROBINSONNews staff writerA national police union is asking Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tommy Nail to override a jury's recommendation and condemn Kerry Spencer to death for killing three police officers.And I was under the impression that in the United States you were granted a fair trial before your peers....they were

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StrandedFor 12 years the Justice Center in New Orleans campaigned for poor inmates facing the death penalty. Now it has been completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Clive Stafford Smith, the human rights lawyer who founded it, says hope is also lost for scores of its clientsFriday September 2, 2005The GuardianI have spent much of the last three days sifting through photographs on the internet

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U.S. judge rejects death-row appealSpirko's execution scheduled in 2 weeksWednesday, September 07, 2005Sandra LivingstonPlain Dealer ReporterA federal judge in Toledo has refused to reopen the case of death-row inmate John Spirko, who is now just two weeks from execution for a murder that some legal experts believe he may not have committed.U.S. District Judge James Carr rejected Spirko's

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WONDERFUL NEWS FROM TAIWAN!!Taiwan to abolish death penalty:Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian Wednesday vowed to abolish death penalty so that Taiwan can become a country founded on the basis of human rights."Abolishing the death penalty has become a world trend. Almost every year there is one country abolishing the death penalty," Chen said while receiving a delegation from the International

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MARK R. CHELLGRENAssociated PressFRANKFORT, Ky. - The Kentucky Supreme Court Thursday upheld the murder conviction and sentence of life without parole given Michael Anthony Holloway after he killed a woman he met over the Internet.Holloway was convicted of kidnapping, robbing and murdering Stacy Dodson, 25, of Barren County in the summer of 2002. Holloway and Dodson met over the Internet and she

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HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORTThe Kentucky Supreme Court ruled today that Ruben Rios Salinas can face the death penalty if convicted in a retrial on a murder charge.Salinas is accused of shooting retired Lexington firefighter Aubrey ?Al? Nuckolls, 63, in 1998.The high court overturned Salinas? original conviction, saying he had been unfairly portrayed as a ?Mexican hitter? for the Mafia. Salinas is

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INTERVIEWFrances Newton: Faith on Death RowBy Terry Meeuswen and Zsa Zsa PalagyiThe 700 ClubCBN.com – “I have to tell anyone who thinks just because they’ve become a new Christian that everything is going to go smoothly that it’s not.”Frances Newton knows this from experience. She’s a Christian who’s been on death row since 1988.The state of Texas convicted Frances for murdering her husband

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MORT CRIM: Help from an unlikely sourceAugust 24, 2005BY MORT CRIMWhen Zach Osborne was only 6, his younger sister Natalie was raped and killed by their mother's boyfriend. Thirteen years later, the killer still sits on Death Row.For many of those years, Zach admits, he was filled with rage. But today, he says, he's found the peace and the courage to forgive the man who committed the horrible act

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The medical "care" that women get at Carswell’s prison hospital can be fatal.By Betty BrinkGarrett said of FMC Carswell, ‘This place has killed my sister.’Linda Fenton, in a coma for eight days before she died, was shackled to her bed to keep her from escaping.Fortwendel is welcomed home by her son Scott.Garrett, left, wouldn’t give up on getting her sister released.Fortwendel at home with her

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An Irrevocable Error 60 years ago, the state of Georgia executed a woman named Lena Baker. Last week the state Board of Pardons and Paroles announced that it would posthumously pardon her. Officials said the execution was a "grievous error" in a case that cried out for mercy.The sentiment is noble, clearly meaningful to her surviving family, which pushed for it. And it is always important for

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As it has done every Aug. 23 for the past 15 years, a Western Massachusetts organization opposed to the death penalty remembered yesterday the 1927 executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a case that remains controversial to this day.The Hampden County Chapter of the Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty and the Catholic Charities Agency co-sponsored a gathering at the

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Timothy JohnstonMissouriAugust 31, 2005Take action atwww.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1129The state of Missouri is scheduled to execute 44-year-old Timothy Johnston, a white man, on Aug. 31, 2005 for the June 30, 1989 murder of his wife Nancy.Johnston claims law enforcement officials violated his Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches and

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via: Sis. FatirahThe June 13 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Thomas Miller-El v. Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice opens the door wide for a new trial for journalist, and innocent political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Jamal has been on Pennsylvania'sdeath row for 23 years as a result of a 1982 Philadelphia racist frame-up trial.The Supreme Court ruled that the

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Friendswood killer's attorney says the case was 'a trespassing that got uglyBy MICHAEL GRACZYKAssociated PressHUNTSVILLE - A suburban Houston man who was 19 when he was arrested for fatally stabbing and beating a woman at her home, then robbing her and taking her car nearly 11 years ago was executed this evening.Robert Alan Shields, 30, was the 12th prisoner executed in Texas this year.A

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EditorialTuesday, August 23, 2005; Page A14SIXTY YEARS AGO, the state of Georgia executed a woman named Lena Baker. Last week the state Board of Pardons and Paroles announced that it would posthumously pardon her. Officials said the execution was a "grievous error" in a case that cried out for mercy. The sentiment is noble, clearly meaningful to her surviving family, which pushed for it. And it

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Death penalty called unjust for mentally illClemency request being consideredAlong with his petition before the Indiana Supreme Court, Arthur P. Baird also is asking the Indiana Parole Board to recommend that Gov. Mitch Daniels grant him clemency, which would spare Baird from execution.The four-member board, appointed by the governor, heard testimony Friday from Baird during a hearing at the

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Monday, August 22, 2005By The Leader-Chicago BureauCHICAGO - Pete Giangreco, Governor Blagojevich’s political spokesman, is not waiting for former Governor Jim Edgar to make his eagerly anticipated decision on whether or not he will run for Governor.Today, in Rich Miller’s Capitol Fax, a newsletter that covers Illinois politics, Giangreco was given the space to offer his comparison between the

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Death penalty is arbitrary and unjustAt the risk of boring columnist John MacDonald with "irrelevant" argumentsagainst the death penalty, his words, if not his thoughts, describe exactly why the death penalty should never be imposed (" 'BTK Killer' should face cruel death," Opinions, Sunday).Not only does the "freak" Dennis Rader escape the death penalty but so does the Green River killer who

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The difference between one and tenBy Dara Purvis RAW STORY COLUMNISTLast week, Dennis Rader, better known by his chosen pseudonym of “BTK,” was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences for a series of brutal murders committed in Kansas over a period of over twenty years starting in the early 1970s.As I moved across the country this last week, I caught a bit of a discussion on CNN with a guest

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Highlights of findings by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction into the May 7 suicide of death row inmate Martin Koliser:- There was no evidence a nurse assigned to death row had completed CPR training in 2003, nor did she receive training in 2004 or become recertified this year until 10 days after Koliser's death.- An officer unnecessarily delayed an ambulance's arrival at the prison

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ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAssociated PressCOLUMBUS, Ohio - A review of some of Ohio's earliest death penalty cases found little consistency comparing the seriousness of the crime with the outcome, including whether offenders were sentenced to death.The lawyers for one of those defendants scheduled to die Sept. 20, killer John Spirko, planned to prevent evidence Tuesday to a state board weighing whether

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BILL'S BACKERS SAY PROCESS GOES ON TOO LONG; STATE'S CHIEF JUSTICE AGAINST CHANGEASSOCIATED PRESSLOUISVILLE - Diana Harrington waited 22 years to see the killer of her sister's family put to death in March.For Harrington, who doesn't consider herself a death penalty advocate, that was too long to wait for Donald Ray Wallace Jr.'s sentence to be carried out for the 1980 deaths of Harrington's

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She would be the first black woman Texas put to death since Civil War eraBy ALLAN TURNER and CYNTHIA GARZACopyright 2005 Houston ChronicleAs protesters take to the streets and attorneys launch late-in-the-day efforts to save her from the executioner's needle, Frances Newton's capital murder case promises to pack an emotional punch rarely felt in Texas, a state that leads the nation in putting

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By Scott E. WilliamsThe Daily NewsPublished August 23, 2005FRIENDSWOOD — A decade on death row and a man’s life are scheduled to end tonight when the killer of a Friendswood woman faces execution by lethal injection.Robert Shields was 20 in October 1995 when a Galveston jury sentenced him to death in the capital murder of Paula Stiner.Stiner’s husband returned home from work on Sept. 21, 1994, to

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August 23, 2005 - 2:55PMForty-year-old Australian citizen Tran Van Thanh has had his death penalty in Vietnam commuted to a life sentence.Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Vietnamese president Tran Duc Luong had granted clemency to Tran on humanitarian grounds and because of the good relations between the two countries.Tran was sentenced to death in November last year for illegal trading of

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Tuesday August 23, 2005 1:31 AMBy ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAssociated Press WriterCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A death row inmate who committed suicide in May was likely dead more than three hours before his body was found, indicating a breakdown in the system for checking on prisoners, according to a report released Monday.The state said it fired two prison guards over the handling of the May 7 suicide of

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Justice Stevens Criticizes Death PenaltySunday August 7, 2005 5:46 AMBy GINA HOLLANDAssociated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens issued an unusually stinging criticism of capital punishment Saturday evening, telling lawyers that he was disturbed by ``serious flaws.'' Stevens stopped short of calling for an end to the death penalty, but he said there are many

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Justice Stevens Speaks IN A RECENT speech in Chicago, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens offered some pointed words on the death penalty. Justice Stevens was giving an award named for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall to Abner J. Mikva, a former chief judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The death penalty was a point of particular passion for Justice Marshall --who opposed it as

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Gary TaylorSentinel Staff WriterPosted August 17 2005Adrienne Jones is ready to have a call block put on her telephone line. She has had it. No more calls from her boyfriend.It's not that she doesn't like Roy McCray, or even that she doesn't want to talk to him. It's the $335 phone bill that arrived last week.McCray is an inmate at the Seminole County Jail, where there is only one way to dial out

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For justice to prevail, prosecution must be justJohn P. FlanneryFlannery, of Lovettsville, is a former federal prosecutor, former director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and former special counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.There is this wrong-headed notion in Virginia that, if we could just get better-paid criminal

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MOLLY IVINS: SYNDICATED COLUMNISTAmerican justice system getting shut down piece by pieceHAVE YOU noticed that the system of justice in this country is shutting down, piece by piece by piece? We have long noted the deleterious effects of "tort reform" here in Texas, where insurance companies are ever bolder, and injured workers and consumers have fewer and fewer rights. But there is a shutdown in

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Interview with Siddique Abdullah HasanbyDaniel SturmAugust 18, 2005Siddique Abdullah Hasan co-founded Compassion newsletter to develop healing communication between capital punishment offenders and murdered victims’ families.The respected Sunni Muslim prison Imam was sentenced to death for his alleged leadership in the 1993 Lucasville prison rebellion. Hasan, who is on death row at Ohio’s

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Too Old to KillThe title of this article has two meanings.Some can believe it refers to being too old to kill another, while others, especially those concerned about the death penalty, can recognize the increasing dilemma facing the State and Federal governments when the time comes to execute an elderly prisoner on death row.Many people are aware of the "graying" population in America's prisons,

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Sweet home AlabamaBy Nancy Goldstein RAW STORY COLUMNISTIf you are a poor person of color accused of a capital crime in Alabama, what stands between you and the death penalty? Not much.Alabama has no statewide public defender system, and your court-appointed lawyer from the local bar may not be very happy to see you. After all, defending your life will net him barely a third

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Revisiting capital punishment By CESAR CHELALASpecial to The Japan TimesNEW YORK -- Recent statements on capital punishment by John Paul Stevens, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, to the American Bar Association could reignite the debate on this important issue. His statements followed several exonerations of death-row inmates through scientific evidence. He said these exonerations are significant "

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No defense for indigent casesWednesday, August 17, 2005 What would it be worth to you to have a good lawyer if you were charged with a heinous crime and were facing the death penalty? Would any amount be too much? Probably not. But few of us can afford a money-is-no-object defense. As taxpayers, there's a limit, too, in what we can afford to spend collectively for court-appointed lawyers who

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[HERALD INTERVIEW]Big sister tells unheard stories of the executed People often think that to befriend death-row prisoners who have committed multiple murder, rape and other heinous crimes would be tough. And it certainly is. Nothing can prepare someone for a friendship suddenly ended by execution and the attendant "psychological scars and unbearable feelings of loss " this leaves, says Kim

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By Mike ParkerAug 9, 2005, 01:14Attorney General Vows To Change Capital Punishment System Image(CBS) CHICAGO President Bush’s top law enforcement officer seems to be softening his hard line on capital punishment.Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who was Bush’s legal advisor during dozens of executions when Bush was Governor of Texas, conceded in Chicago on Monday, that the system can stand some

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Indefinite Detention in OhioLocked in solitary confinement, no chance of paroleThe Business Journal, Aug. 1, 2005by Daniel Sturm Before becoming an Ohio State Penitentiary physician, Dr. Ayham Haddad experienced a different side of incarceration as a political prisoner in Syria. After being arrested, tortured, and released, Haddad immigrated to the United States to begin a new life.Now a general

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DEATH Row campaigner Anna Khmelnitski has flown to the US in a bid to save the life of her pen pal prisoner. Loyal friend: Anna Khmelnitski The 23-year-old Cambridge woman is convinced of convicted murderer Bill Clark's innocence and is helping his legal team prepare a case. Anna, a healthcare assistant at Addenbrooke's Hospital, has been in the US for three weeks and had face-to-face talks with

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Lorilei Guillory’s fight to prevent the man who murdered her son being executed has been turned into a powerful theatrical drama, writes Clive Stafford Smith.Hollywood movies seem obsessed with Death Row these days. They inevitably begin with a horrific murder, a suspect is identified, and a death sentence imposed. Being Hollywood, the condemned is generally innocent and, thanks to an

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By LUCY MORGAN, Times Tallahassee Bureau ChiefPublished July 30, 2005A lot of bad things have been written lately about Holland & Knight, one of the nation's biggest lawfirms. You might say the firm got what it deserved when newspapers disclosed its clumsy handling of a sexual harassment problem.But there are also some good things to talk about around Holland & Knight.This Holland & Knight story

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You're not going to read about this in your newspaper, hear it on TV or radio. It didn't even make the Hudson, New York, Register Star or the Columbia County Independent . But it's very important anyway.This week a jury in Columbia County Court in New York State engaged in a very unusual process. In the case of People v. Fred Credle, the jury initially decided that the accused was guilty of

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BY ART GOLAB Staff Reporter Jeanette Sliwinski unsuccessfully tried to kill herself, police said. She may still get her wish. Prosecutors said they may seek the death penalty for the 23-year-old Morton Grove woman who allegedly told investigators she was trying to kill herself when she slammed her car at 70 mph into the rear of a Honda Civic stopped at a red light at a Skokie intersection

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Report: Missourian executed 10 years ago innocent of murderBy TONY RIZZO The Kansas City StarLarry Griffin shouldn’t be a cause. He should be alive.Kansas City lawyer Kent Gipson believes that today, and he believed it 10 years ago when he tried unsuccessfully to keep the state of Missouri from putting Griffin to death.Now, evidence found more than a decade ago by Gipson and his partner, Sean O’

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No guarantees in life - or in death penaltySunday, July 17, 2005 Gov. W. Mitt Romney told lawmakers Thursday that his proposal to reinstate the death penalty comes with a guarantee that no innocent person would ever be executed in Massachusetts if his bill becomes law. "This is as foolproof a death penalty as exists, and you will not have false convictions and false executions under this bill,"

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REV CARROLL PICKETT NINETY-FIVE times, I personally walked a man who was sentenced to die to the death chamber in Texas. From the very first person executed by lethal injection, through 16 years of walking those eight steps from the holding cell in the death house to the impeccably clean gurney in the death chamber, I led a man - some were older, some convicted in their teens, some mentally

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Irving: Hill wants death penalty for man whose '86 verdict was reversed09:21 PM CDT on Friday, July 8, 2005 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning NewsLess than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned celebrated death row inmate Thomas Miller-El's murder conviction, District Attorney Bill Hill announced Friday that he plans to retry the case and will seek the death penalty. Mr. Hill

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