| Defense attorneys seek to bar death penalty for Dimas-Martinez http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr... Death Penalty Articles Northwest Arkansas News - BENTONVILLE - Defense attorneys claim their client Erickson Dimas-Martinez has an intellectual disability that bars prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Dimas-Martinez, 22, is charged with aggravated robbery and capital murder, both class Y ... |
| Boys in blue Police blotter . . . http://www.suntimes.com/new... Death Penalty Articles Chicago Sun-Times - ... which increases the number of women covered by equal pay protections and provides for strong state enforcement. • • Please note: This comes at a time when there are legal pressures to end former Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty ... |
| DA to seek death in 2006 slaying http://www.albanyherald.com... Death Penalty Articles Albany Herald - Thursday, District Attorney Cecilia Cooper filed a notice with the court to seek the death penalty because of what she termed the heinous nature of the crime. “The murder of William R. Murphy was so outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or ... |
| Suspect arraigned in boy's shooting death http://www.recordnet.com/ap... Death Penalty Articles Record - Chanreasmey Prum, 22, was charged with a total of seven felonies in connection with the death of Aaron Kelly that make Prum eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors have yet to decide if they will make this a capital case. The charges filed against ... |
| DEATH PENALTY-INDONESIA: Bali Bombers' Reprieve Likely To Be Brief http://www.ipsnews.net/news... Death Penalty Articles Inter Press Service - MELBOURNE, Feb 15 (IPS) - Lawyers for the three Islamist militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings have succeeded in winning an execution delay -- but their last-ditch effort to save their clients from a firing squad is ... |
| India seeks death penalty for hijackers http://www.metimes.com/Secu... Death Penalty Articles Middle East Times - NEW DELHI, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- India says it plans to amend the Anti-Hijacking Act of 1982 and seek the death penalty for hijackers. The United Progressive Alliance government plans to amend the law to make it much more iron-fisted, providing for a no ... |
| Distribution of death penalty cases comes down to ‘luck’ of draw http://www.chroniclet.com/2... Death Penalty Articles Chronicle-Telegram - ELYRIA — Most criminal cases in county Common Pleas Court are randomly assigned by a computer. But not when the case involves the possibility of the death penalty. In those cases, determining the judge comes down to the number that comes out of a ... |
| A Young Life Hangs in the Balance in Afghanistan's Cultural War http://www.washingtonpost.c... Death Penalty Articles Washington Post - Moreover, the final decision on any execution rests with President Hamid Karzai , who generally opposes the death penalty and has found ways to circumvent it in several previous capital cases. Aside from the religious issues involved, several ... |
| Tavares won't get the death penalty http://www.boston.com/news/... Death Penalty Articles Boston Globe - His own father wanted him put to death, calling him "pure evil." But Daniel J. Tavares Jr. has reached a plea deal with prosecutors in Washington State that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. A prosecutor announced at a press conference ... |
| Pierce County prosecutor: No death penalty in Graham double slaying ... http://seattletimes.nwsourc... Death Penalty Articles Seattle Times - TACOMA — Pierce County Prosecutor Gerald Horne says he will not seek the death penalty against ex-convict Daniel Tavares Jr., who is charged with two counts of aggravated murder for the November slayings of a young Graham couple. Horne said during ... |