In the aftermath of the botched execution of Romell Broom in Ohio, lawmakers are searching for a doctor to help execute prisoners sentenced to death. It would seem that the Hippocratic Oath which demands that the physician "do no harm" interferes with deliberately...
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...
created by Tina Kells | 7 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago 582 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
Romell Broom, a 53-year-old death row inmate, was supposed to be executed via lethal injection today. Broom raped and killed 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in Cleveland in 1984. His execution was scheduled for today, but the executioners had trouble finding his veins for an IV...
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...
opinion by Dr Linda Shelton | 10 wks ago | updated 10 wks ago 271 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"By Jonathan Miller - Just three months after the Sri Lankan government declared the country liberated from the Tamil Tigers, video footage has emerged apparently showing government troops summarily executing...
Kasab has accepted his crime. will it be short sighted to hang him???The real culprits are in Pakistan. Therefore Kasab should get life imprisonment. He will be more useful to India in the long run.is a 4 and half...
By, Uwe Paschen. Vive la France. (14 Juillet Fete National) or should that be Vive Paris? Today as in 1680 under the war hungry King Louis the XIV of France, who once said that “Paris is France but France will...
opinion by Paschen | 16 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago 774 views | 75 recommendations | 27 comments
"EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of...
Instead of bullets, China plans to use injections when executing its prisoners.The director general of the research bureau of the Supreme People's Court said using injections were more humane than bullets and it reduces the criminals' fear and pain compared with gunshot...
Just minutes before they hung her, Delara Darabi made a frantic phone call to her mother. One wonders why she was allowed to make this call? " It was 7am when Delara Darabi phoned home. "Oh mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me," she garbled. "They are going to...
The ethnically distinct Uighurs of China face an uncertain future. Recently Pakistan extradited Uighur exiles to China in violation of international agreements. "China increased its repression of...
Amnesty International claimed it was "a cynical move on the part of the authorities to avoid domestic and international protests which might have saved Delara Darabi's life.""Stop Child Executions sadly regrets to...
A Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up AgainstPolice Pre-Trial Electrocution - April 24, 2009Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and Electrocuted While Black.. When I first proposed renaming "tasering" "police pre-trial electrocution and execution", some...
opinion by francislholland | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 77 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
WE NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD RAIN ON OUR JUSTICE PARADE, BUT IT DID. MAN PLANS, BUT GOD DECIDES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON, AND MORE WERE FORCAST THROUGHOUT...
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments this week and is now deliberating on whether prisoners, including death row inmates, should be allowed to do DNA testing on evidence that was used to convict them...