Facing execution, killer receives reprieve during last meal

TEXAS:  While having his "final"  meal,  a convicted murderer who was set to be executed received a reprieve from a federal judge.    Prosecutors had insisted the man had feigned mental...

D.C. Sniper No More, Victims's Friend Attended Execution

D.C. Sniper No More, Victim’s Friend Witnessed Execution Last Night in Virginia Milton Perry attended the execution.  Milton was a a co-worker of bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, who was shot in the chest...

US Citizens Charged With Espionage In Iran, Social Media Responds

Three US citizens -- Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal were formally charged with espionage by Iran's authorities on Monday. The three were arrested while crossing Iraq-Iran border on July 31 of this year....

Uganda's Daily Monitor raises its voice on behalf of defenseless

Uganda's Daily Monitor raises its voice on behalf of Uganda's defenseless gays and lesbians while it is alleged that three American anti-gay activists (Exodus board member Don Schmierer, Holocaust revisionist Scott...

James Magee Gets Death Penalty for Murder of Andrienne and Zach

James Magee was sentenced to the death penalty today for the 2007 killings of his wife Andrienne Magee and their five-year-old son Zach Magee. When the verdict was read in court James Magee collapsed. He was convicted on Saturday of the shooting deaths of his 28-year-old...

Human rights groups blast Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009

Human rights groups blast Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality."  The draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill was...

Jury consulted Bible to conclude death penalty

" The Texas jury didn't hesitate to find Khristian Oliver guilty of shooting and bludgeoning an elderly man to death. Oliver had stood over his bleeding victim, repeatedly hitting him in the head with a rifle butt...

Romell Broom Execution On Hold Over 'Unsuitable Veins'

When the state of Ohio went to execute convicted child killer Romell Broom, 53, they ran into an unexpected problem. Romell Broom was set to die by lethal injection but when executioners went to put the needle in his...

Michael King Death Penalty: Jury Votes in Denise Lee Murder

The jury in the murder of Denise Lee has unanimously voted to sentence her killer, Michael King, to the death penalty. The jury was in tears as it listened to testimony from Denise Lee's family including her husband Nathan Lee and her father, Pat O'Quinn, a retired cop. The...

Execution of an Innocent Man in Texas, USA

The unimaginable has happened and it could happen to anyone in the barbaric United States justice system where justice is a myth, Wild West attitudes remain, and the courts are used for political gain, instead of as a fact finder of the truth. The argument for the...

Troy Davis, Convicted Killer, Gets A New Hearing

Troy Davis, a former sports coach from Georgia, USA, was convicted of the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis always insisted that he was innocent and fell victim of mistaken identity. In 1991, Davis was sentenced to death penalty. While on death...

China ramps up efforts to stop deadly ethnic violence

This is unusual in China.3o years ago there would have been tanks in the streets, mass arrests.  It seems China is slowly moving away from the past, while still using force at times.Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic group who follow Sunni Islamic religion.  They are the...

US Soldier Steven Green Faces Death for Iraq Gang Rape, 4 Murders

A former US soldier, Pfc. Steven Dale Green, was convicted last week of orchestrating the gang rape of Abeer Qassim Hamza, a 14 year old girl, and the brutal murder of her and her entire family; 5-year old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza, mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen, and father...

Skylar Deleon: Power Rangers Actor Gets Death Penalty for Murder

Skylar Deleon, a former star of the Power Rangers, has been given the death penalty for the brutal drowning murder an Arizona couple in 2004.  Deleon and his accomplices tied the couple to an anchor and threw...

New Mexico Death Penalty Repealed by Governor Richardson

New Mexico became the 15th state in the union to stop using the capital punishment Wednesday, when Governor Bill Richardson signed a bill repealing the death penalty.  Going forward death penalty crimes will be get sentences of life imprisonment with no chance for...

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