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Iran Ponders Death Sentence to some Bloggers (Global Neighbourhoods)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:47:54 GMT

Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb posts a troubling story about Iran, a country who already imprisons bloggers and execute citizens at an ambitious rate. The religiously conservative government is considering execution as punishment for bloggers who establish " sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy. Apostasy means the abandonment of a religion. The official Iranian news agency reports...

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Owner of 'claws celebre' cat sees charge scratched (Boston Globe)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:56:38 GMT

The criminal case has been dropped against the owner of Lewis, a cat whose possible death sentence turned the scratch-happy Fairfield feline into a national "claws celebre."

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Attorney General Defends Death Penalty (All Africa)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:27:03 GMT

THE Supreme Court should restore the Constitutional provisions that make the death sentence mandatory for convicts of capital offences, the Attorney General has said.

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Paul House (StandDown Texas Project)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:07:50 GMT

Nashville City Paper has the editorial, "House case shows more flaws in death penalty system." Given his death sentence, the mound of evidence supporting his innocence and a U.S. Supreme Court formal recognition of those facts, it is a mystery...

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Bad Lawyering (Libertyblog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:46:44 GMT

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote about there being no federal law permitting the death sentence for raping a child. Turns out he was wrong, the military has one, passed by the Congress, signed and ordered by the President. Maybe these guys...

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Sicko Susan Atkins & The Quality of Mercy (The Moderate Voice)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:13:33 GMT

Beyond Charles Manson himself, Susan Atkins was the most public face of his murderous family during the 1970-71 Tate-LaBianca trial . She bragged about stabbing the pregnant Sharon Tate and laughed when details of the slaying were presented in court. Her death sentence was later changed to life imprisonment and now Atkins, who says she has found God and her sins have been forgiven, is...

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Man draws life in killing (Baltimore Sun)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Woodlawn resident pleads guilty in neighbor's death A 38-year-old Woodlawn man pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore County Circuit Court to killing his next-door neighbor during a botched burglary, an admission that spares him a possible death sentence.

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Murderer ruled unfit mentally to die for crime -Raleigh (NC) News & Observer (NC Mental Hope News)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:55:00 GMT

Titan Barksdale Convicted murderer Guy LeGrande, who baited Stanly County jurors with expletive-filled rants during his 1996 trial, is too mentally ill to be executed, a judge has ruled. Despite the order, LeGrande remains under a death sentence, according to the N.C. Department of Correction. It's unclear how or when the disagreement about his status as a death-row inmate and...

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Israeli Prisoner Exchange (the Dry Bones Blog)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT

If Israel trades away prisoners we hold but does not insist on proof that Hezbollah is keeping our people alive aren't we signing a death sentence for any Israeli who falls into their hands? It's a simple question. And YOUR answer would be? -Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973

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Mark Dean Schwab (Lost In Lima Ohio- The Blog)

noreply@blogger.com (Lilo) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:44:00 GMT

After years of waiting, Mark Dean Schwab can go home. Perhaps not the home he'd hoped for- he was after all condemned to spend the rest of his life in prison- with a chance that his death sentence would be forever halted and he's spend the remander of his time in a general population cell block, or the chance that Florida would actually get around to granting the family of his victim...

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HC upholds death for man who raped, killed 11-yr-old (Times of India)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:45:10 GMT

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has upheld the death sentence for a 55-year-old man who raped and killed an 11-year-old girl at Amravati in July 2006.

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Texas: Clemency Petition (Pardon Power)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:27:00 GMT

Attorneys for Lester Leroy Bower Jr ., are asking the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant a 90-day "reprieve" so as to allow consideration of Bower’s claim of innocence. A death sentence was handed down back in 1984 when Bower was convicted of killing four men in a airplane hangar during a "drug deal gone bad." The petition says, "evidence justifies a full reprieve. [At] minimum,...

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Iranian youth is appealing Shariah Death Sentence (Shariah Finance Watch)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:50:03 GMT

Iran says youth appealing execution sentence Tue Jul 1, 2008 http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKHAF13741920080701 TEHRAN (Reuters) - A youth in Iran is appealing a death sentence and the case is being reviewed, judiciary officials said on Tuesday after the European Union called for the execution to be halted. Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said the Islamic Republic...

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Neelam Katara appeals for death sentence for son's killers (Times of India)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:34:52 GMT

NEW DELHI: Nitish Katara’s mother, Neelam, moved the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking death penalty for her son's killers. On May 30, a trial court had handed down life imprisonment to former Uttar Pradesh MP D P Yadav 's son Vikas and nephew Vishal for murdering Nitish Katara. In the petition, filed through lawyer Kaushik Dey, Neelam contended that the trial court has ignored the fact that...

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Death penalty upheld for man who killed family (San Fransisco Chronicle)

begelko@sfchronicle.com (Bob Egelko) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

The state Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Monday for Ramon Salcido, who murdered his wife, two daughters, three other relatives and his supervisor at a Sonoma County winery during a three-hour rampage in 1989. The justices unanimously rejected defense...

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Man given death sentence in Iran for spying for Israel (The Irish Times)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:34:54 GMT

IRAN: IRAN YESTERDAY sentenced a businessman to death after a court convicted him of spying on the country's military and nuclear programme for Israel.

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Middle East: Death sentence for Iranian who spied on nuclear project (The Guardian)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:05:42 GMT

Iran sentences businessman to death for spying on military and nuclear programme for Israel

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Death sentence for 'Israeli spy' (The Independent)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

An Iranian court yesterday sentenced to death an Iranian businessman on charges of being an Israeli spy who targeted the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear programme and its military, media said.

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Death sentence sought for Saudi who organized murderous USS Cole attack (American Congress for Truth)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:04:03 GMT

comment by Jerry Gordon The Pentagon announced charges against Saudi organizer of both the USS Cole attack that killed 17 Navy sailors in 2000 and another attack against the French tanker Limburg that killed a Bulgarian crew man in 2002. The suspect, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, has been held at [...]

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Youth Escape Death Sentence (The Shebeen)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:02:22 GMT

Two youth escaped the hangman's noose last week when they got jail terms for the murder of a German national eight years ago. Full article ......

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