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Death penalty possible in Vermont kidnap case
2008-07-03 17:06:00 BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have filed kidnapping charges that carry the death penalty against a Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home. The federal charges against Michael Jacques provide for the death penalty in kidnappings resulting in a child’s death. State and federal prosecutors spoke in Burlington on Thursday as 42-year-old ...
By: TexasFred's
Unbowed, politicians vow to execute child rapists
2008-06-26 04:45:00 Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional. “Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court that would issue a decision like this,” said Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a Republican. The ...
By: TexasFred's
Court rejects death penalty for raping children
2008-06-25 13:43:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. “The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape ...
By: TexasFred's
SCOTUS Strikes Down Death Penalty for Pedophiles
2008-06-25 12:13:00 That had to be an unpleasant ruling to make.From the AP:The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. ...The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. ...The Supreme Court banned executions for rape in 1977 in a case in which the victim was an adult woman. Forty-five states ban the death penalty for any kind of rape, and the other five states allow it for child rapists. Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas allow executions in such cases if the defendant had previously been convicted of raping a child. The court struggled over how to apply standards laid out ...
By: Dyre Portents
September 11 accused wants death penalty
2008-06-06 01:40:00 THE accused al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a US military court today, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty. “This is what I wish, to be martyred,” Pakistani captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in US custody, told the Guantanamo war crimes ...
Khalid Sheikh calls for death penalty to be martyr
2008-06-05 20:50:00 CNews GUANTANAMO BAY: The alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 US attacks Thursday called to be sentenced to death so he could become a martyr at the start of a US military hearing of five alleged plotters."This is what I want, I'm looking to be a martyr for long time," Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani national, told the hearing at Guantanamo Bay as he was reminded by the military judge that he faced the death penalty."God is all sufficient for me," he translated into English as he read verses from the Koran, the Muslim holy book. He also threw out his appointed military and civilian defense team, saying he would defend himself. Sheikh Mohammed, 43, has claimed to have been behind not just the September 11 attacks but also some 30 operations against the West in the past decade, according to transcripts of his interrogation released by the Pentagon.His appearance on Thursday is the first time he has been seen in public since his capture in Pakistan on March 1, 2003.Dresse...
Accused 9/11 mastermind wants death sentence
2008-06-05 19:37:00 Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (AP) - Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed says he wants the death sentence. He and four alleged confederates faced a military judge Thursday in their long-awaited first appearance before a war-crimes tribunal. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged al-Qaida figures sat at defense tables alongside their lawyers before the ...
By: TexasFred's
Couldn't agree more about the death penalty...but ...
2008-06-05 18:34:00 Couldn't agree more about the death penalty...but do your words "The latest asshole to storm Blogdonia" reflect the mind of Christ?
By: Daisy's Dead Air
The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penalty
2008-05-31 10:33:00 anthony @ 09:30 BST Yesterday, I saw the above headline in The Independent newspaper. “Probably just another British Asian working for Muslim Aid or some other such-like charity, being rounded up in eastern Pakistan and brought back to Gitmo for a showtrial to keep alive people’s fears of ‘terrorism’”,- I thought. “Is Gordon Brown going to ...
By: Suzie-Q
Jakiem Wilson Trial Begins
2008-05-28 19:30:00 News Update 05.28.08 North Carolina In Wake County, jury selection has begun in the trial of Jakiem Wilson, who has admitted to killing his wife in 2007. His attorneys will argue that Wilson should be convicted of second-degree murder or manslaughter. If convicted of first-degree murder, Wilson will be sentenced either to death or to ...
Crowe?s Death Sentence Commuted to Life
2008-05-22 23:04:00 Just two and a half hours before he was scheduled to be executed, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has commuted Samuel David Crowe’s sentence to life without parole.
Cop Killing Illegal Immigrant Spared Death Penalty
2008-05-22 14:01:00 Illegal Immigrant Juan Leonardo Quintero-Perez, who killed police officer Rodney Johnson 2 years ago, was spared the death penalty at his sentencing yesterday: Almost two years ago, Juan Leonardo Quintero predicted in a jail house interview that he would be sent to the death chamber for shooting Houston police officer Rodney Johnson. “I was wrong,” he said Wednesday from a Harris County jail a day after he was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. It was a verdict that outraged Johnson’s family and local law enforcement but served as a victory for death penalty opponents in a county that has sent more people to Texas’ death row than any other. The verdict also reignited debate about illegal immigration, as Quintero had been deported before he sneaked back into the United States. {Source: Houston Chronicle} Let me reiterate my thoughts about this from when I posted on this story on May 9th: Enough is enough already. This is THE deciding issue f...
Journalist faces death penalty for insulting religion of ?peace?
2008-05-22 03:50:00 (Lack of) freedom of speech on full display in Afghanistan Afghan journalism student facing death over alleged Islam insult says he was tortured KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam told an appeals court Sunday he confessed to writing materials that questioned the religion’s treatment of women because he was ...
Murder Defendant Denied Counsel
2008-05-21 18:19:00 News Update 05.21.08 North Carolina In a highly unusual turn of events, the Charlotte man accused of killing a state insurance investigator who was conducting an audit of his business has been denied the assistance of a public defender. According to Judge Bill Costagny, Michael Arthur Howell makes too much money to be entitled to assistance ...
Stitt Sentenced to Life Without Parole
2008-05-16 16:08:00 News Update 05.16.08 North Carolina A Cumberland County jury has voted to spare the life of convicted double-murderer James Stitt. Stitt killed his housemate, a 21-year-old soldier, and the soldier’s 16-year-old girlfriend, at their home in 2005. He then took the victim’s car and other property and drove to Brooklyn, New York, where he sold ...
Muslim ?scholar? declares death penalty ok for apostasy
2008-05-15 20:13:00 No shock here, from the ‘religion’ of ‘peace’. Apostasy Punishable By Death: Top Adhaalath Scholar The leader of the religious Adhaalath party scholars? council has said he advocates the death penalty for those who convert from Islam to another religion, as well as amputation of hands for certain types of theft. In an interview with Minivan News, Sheikh ...
Five Terrorists Face the Death Penalty
2008-05-14 17:45:00 MIAMI - A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9-11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men for allegedly conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks, according to their charge sheet obtained by The Miami Herald. Military Commissions officials e-mailed the approved charge sheets to defense lawyers in Washington, D.C., after the ...
By: Euphoric Reality
NC Lethal Injection Litigation Continues
2008-05-14 16:44:00 News Update 05.14.08 North Carolina The Council of State fired its latest volley this week in the ongoing litigation over North Carolina’s lethal injection protocol. The arguments can be summarized as follows: 1) the inmates cannot appeal the COS’s decision to approve the lethal injection protocol because they are not “persons aggrieved” by the decision; (2) ...
Death Row Exoneree Bo Jones Speaks
2008-05-06 16:44:00 News Update 05.06.08 North Carolina Levon “Bo” Jones, recently released after serving over a decade for a murder he did not commit, held a press conference yesterday in Raleigh. Jones’ attorneys spoke first. Ernest “Buddy” Conner told those gathered how the police failed to dust for fingerprints at the scene and eventually lost what little ...
Levon ?Bo? Jones Released from Death Row
2008-05-02 16:49:00 For the second time in two months, an innocent man is being released from North Carolina’s death row. Levon “Bo” Jones spent 13 years on death row after being convicted of the 1987 murder of Leamon Grady. Federal judge Terrence Boyle vacated Jones’ conviction and death sentence in 2006 after finding that Jones’ ...
Where Do NC Candidates Stand on the Death Penalty?
2008-04-28 16:01:00 (This post is an expanded and modified version of last week’s post. Thanks to everyone at BlueNC for their help. Further additions are welcome.) With an important primary just a week away, here’s a look at how the contenders feel about capital punishment. In the Democratic NC gubernatorial debate, both candidates said that they support ...
Where the Candidates Stand on Capital Punishment
2008-04-25 20:22:00 News Update 04.25.08 North Carolina In this week’s Democratic NC gubernatorial debate, both candidates said that they support the death penalty if it is applied fairly. Beverly Perdue, unlike Richard Moore, supports a moratorium and further study of the issue. In the Iredell and Alexander County district attorney race, all three candidates have made clear that they ...
Fund for Glen Edward Chapman
2008-04-23 15:18:00 As regular readers will know, Glen Edward Chapman was released from North Carolina’s death row recently after having served over a decade in prison for two murders he did not commit. People of Faith Against the Death Penalty have set up a fund to help Edward adjust to life in the free world. ...
Man says death penalty handed down on killer of his wife, daughter is fair
2008-04-22 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}HIROSHIMA -- A 32-year-old man whose wife and 11-month daughter were murdered in April 1999 described the death penalty handed down on the convicted perpetrator -- aged just 18 at the time of the killing -- as a fair ruling."A proper ruling has been handed down," the 32-year-old man, Hiroshi Motomura, said in a news conference after the ruling.The defendant, who had faced charges of murder and rape resulting in death, was handed the death penalty in a ru ...
North Carolina Reaction to Baze
2008-04-21 17:33:00 News Update 04.21.08 North Carolina The US Supreme Court’s decision last week in Baze v. Rees does not mean that executions will resume immediately here in North Carolina. There are two state-based cases that must be resolved - first, a suit by five inmates who allege that the Council of State acted improperly in approving a ...
[Strange] Apparently, the death penalty in Great Britian is DIY. With ?WTF
2008-04-19 23:25:00 The Sun
Supreme Court Has a Typo in the Death Penalty Ruling: ?Cruel and Usual? Pun
2008-04-18 21:30:00 Well, this is something that doesn’t happen very often. A friend of mine pointed this out to me: in the first paragraph of Justice Breyer’s opinion on Baze v. Rees, he has a major misspelling (page 80): Assuming the lawfulness of the death penalty itself, petitioners argue that Kentucky?s method of execution, lethal injection, nonetheless constitutes a ...
Human Rights Group Urges End To Afghan Death Penalty
2008-04-17 13:05:00 Among the hopes of ending the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was to elminiate its brutality in which hundres were executed for various offenses against the government. The US Based Human Rights Watch is asking President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to refrain from signing execution orders for about 100 prisoners and declare a moratorium on the ...
Virginia death penalty moratorium lifted post-Supreme Court decision
2008-04-17 12:47:00 Virginia Governor Tim Kaine lifted a moratorium on the execution (so to speak) of the death penalty procedure in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's three drug lethal execution cocktail. The court ruled that there was no constitutional requirement that executions be completely free of the risk of pain.Governor Kaine is well-known as a personal opponent of the death penalty and no doubt had hoped that the court would have knocked down the Kentucky procedure and by extension, Virginia's as well. Of course to get elected as governor in the first place, Kaine had also promised to "uphold the law" so with the court back on board with safeguarded lethal injections, he had no reasonable alternative to lifting the moratorium.----What was disingenuous was Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell's criticism of Kaine enacting the moratorium in the first place. The attorney general should be upholding the law, not leaving the state liable for a potentially irreversible u...
By: DCABloob
Supreme Court Rules Lethal Injections for Executions Are OK
2008-04-16 19:24:00 Today, the Supreme Court upheld allowing the death penalty by lethal injection in a 7-2 vote. This is the opinion for the case Baze v. Rees (John D. Rees is the Kentucky Corrections Commissioner). Ralph Baze was scheduled to die in Kentucky after killing a sheriff and deputy sheriff. Here is an excerpt from the court’s ...
Breaking - Baze v. Rees Decided
2008-04-16 16:37:00 Opinion here. Says SCOTUSBlog: In a widely splintered decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for death-row executions to resume across the country, concluding that the most common method of lethal injection does not violate the Constitution. The final vote was 7-2 in Baze v. Rees (07-5439), although there was no opinion that spoke for five or ...
Supreme Court Upholds the Death Penalty
2008-04-16 16:27:00 The US Supreme Court today ended a national moratorium on executions, upholding the constitutionality of the form of capital punishment used in nearly every state — lethal injection. The court’s ruling was on a 7-2 vote, though different justices found different reasons for joining the opinion. The high court rejected a challenge by two Kentucky death ...
[Interesting] SCOTUS to consider whether the death penalty is appropriate f
2008-04-15 23:09:00 CBS News
Death Row Families Come Together
2008-04-15 16:58:00 News Update 04.15.08 North Carolina Over the weekend, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty held an interfaith service and provided dinner for the friends and family of death row inmates. The event provided a rare opportunity for death row families to come together in an environment free of judgment. “As a pastor, I have ...
Child Rape Tests Limits Of Death Penalty
2008-04-14 05:26:00 Ever since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty more than 30 years ago, it has been finding ways to limit it.
By: Get rich
[Asinine] 10 years after Britain officially abolished the death penalty for
2008-04-13 04:44:00 London Times
Judge Removed from Kyle Berry Case
2008-04-11 17:28:00 News Update 04.11.08 North Carolina Judge Ronald Spivey has been recused from presiding over the appeal of Kyle Berry, who is on death row for a 1998 New Hanover County murder. Another judge removed Spivey from the case after his hostile courtroom comments to Berry’s counsel were found to indicate prejudice. The attorneys for Glen Chapman weigh ...
Death Penalty Is Too Easy For These Two Monsters
2008-04-09 18:09:00 The death penalty. I have supported capital punishment in the past, and support it now, but I still wonder if I am right in my position. There are times, however, that my first and only thought is, “Kill ‘em.” This is one of those instances: It was clear from the bruises and other injuries on the little girl’s body that Sunday was not the first time she had been abused, Dauphin County coroner Graham Hetrick told WGAL-TV. He said it was one of the worst cases of child abuse he has ever seen. Baez, 19, called for an ambulance Sunday and said Johnson had brought the unconscious child to her, limp and wet from an attempt to revive her in a bathtub, a police affidavit said. Johnson, 26, acknowledged beating the girl with a video game controller but did not say why, police said. Baez said Johnson had abused the girl in the past and that she heard the girl scream after Johnson beat her Sunday, according to the affidavit. The child’s name was Darisabel Baez....
State to Seek Death Against Barbara Clark
2008-04-08 17:03:00 News Update 04.08.08 North Carolina Orange and Chatham County district attorneys have been given the green light to seek death against Barbara Clark, the woman accused of killing two elderly women at an assisted living center last year. Clark’s attorney has raised concerns about her mental fitness to proceed - Clark was too paralyzed by anxiety and ...
Breaking - Innocent Man Released from Death Row
2008-04-02 19:12:00 From press release: INNOCENT MAN PUT ON DEATH ROW BY LYING POLICE OFFICER FINALLY SET FREE NEWTON, NC ? Today Glen Edward Chapman, who spent 15 years on North Carolina?s death row for crimes he did not commit, is walking out of prison a free man. Chapman was sentenced to death for the 1992 murders ...
Dennis Fritz Favors Bill That Would Halt the Death Penalty in Missouri
2008-04-02 16:32:00 Dennis Fritz, Author of "Journey Toward Justice". Dennis Fritz, the "co-conspirator" in Grisham's 2006 book, "The Innocent Man", Favors Bill That Would Halt the Death Penalty in Missouri...A man wrongfully imprisoned for 12 years for murder who was profiled in John Grisham's nonfiction best seller "The Innocent Man" urged lawmakers Thursday to support a three-year death penalty moratorium in Missouri.Dennis Fritz, the "co-conspirator" in Grisham's 2006 book, told the House's Crime Prevention and Public Safety committee Tuesday that capital punishment should be suspended until the state can review the cases of inmates sitting on death row to ensure the convictions were proper and accurate."There are many, many other people out there -- it's my opinion -- on death row that are innocent," said Fritz, 58, who was in an Oklahoma prison from 1987 to 1999 serving time for the rape and murder of a cocktail waitress he did not commit.The committee heard testimony about House Bill 1870. ...
Executions - April 2008
2008-04-01 16:20:00 There are no executions presently scheduled for the month of April. It has been six months since anyone was executed in the United States.
24-year-old man arrested after stabbing rampage wants death penalty
2008-03-29 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}TSUCHIURA, Ibaraki -- A 24-year-old man arrested in the wake of a fatal stabbing rampage at a station here has told police that he wants to be given the death penalty, police said."I didn't want to commit suicide. I thought I'd get the death penalty if I killed more than one person," Masahiro Kanagawa, an unemployed resident of Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, told police.Kanagawa was arrested on charges of murdering Yoshikazu Miura, 72, after a separate s ...
Quick Update
2008-03-28 15:16:00 News Update 03.28.08 North Carolina Nothing to report. Elsewhere Quick updates on several past stories: In Texas, a federal district court has decided that Scott Panetti is crazy, but not that crazy. The Third Circuit has decided that Pennsylvania’s Mumia Abu-Jamal should receive a new capital sentencing hearing. The Supreme Court ruled in Medellin v. Texas that just because the President ...
Ted Poe, Michael McCall On Supreme Court TX Medillin Death Penalty Ruling [
2008-03-26 18:13:00 You may remember the case of Jose Ernesto Medellin from back in October when President Bush came out in favor of this member of the Latino gang the Black and Whites, when Mexico demanded a retrial in his death penalty...
By: Diggers Realm
Bush Overruled in Death Penalty Dispute
2008-03-26 15:43:00 Jose Ernesto Medellin, left, was sentenced in 1994 to die for the rapes and killings of two teenage girls in Houston. The Supreme Court ruled President Bush cannot force Texas to reconsider... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: My View of It
Supreme Court: Texas Law Trumps International Court of Justice and Presiden
2008-03-25 23:51:00 Today the Supreme Court ruled in MEDELLIN v. TEXAS that Texas (and all the other states) do not need not provide new hearings to Mexican citizens on death row who were not told they could obtain consular help when arrested, as is required by the “Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention or Convention).” Here’s the ...
Hearing in Army Fragging Case
2008-03-21 16:07:00 News Update 03.21.08 North Carolina Yesterday a pretrial hearing was held at Fort Bragg for Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez, accused of killing two superior officers in Iraq. His attorneys urged the judge to keep gruesome crime scene photos out of evidence, and also asked that Martinez’s expert be allowed to review evidence off-base, to ensure that ...
Tommy Ward's Dream Gets Him Death Penalty - A Cousin Starts a Blog For Help
2008-03-19 22:47:00 Please Help My Cousin Prove His InnocenceMy cousin Tommy Ward was wrongfully convicted of Murder over 20 years ago. Despite evidence, he was convicted because of a dream he had about the event. The details of his dream/confession were nowhere close to matching the actual events of the victims death, rape, or the location of her body. My family and I have been stripped of the joys of having Tommy in our lives for far too long. He has been denied a wonderful life because the justice system needed someone to blame for the crime.Persons with information about the Denice Haraway homicide may send e-mail to:barrettlawoffice@gmail.comOr- write to:Mark Barrett, AttorneyP.O. Box 896Norman, Oklahoma 73070From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia~Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot were convicted of murdering Denise Haraway. Haraway, 24, worked part-time at McAnally?s convenience store in Ada, Oklahoma. She was last seen leaving the store on April 28, 1984, with a man who had his arm around her waist. The... |
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