Jan. 1 TEXAS: Andre Thomas convicted for murdering his infant son It took jurors less than 45 minutes in March to conclude death was the only punishment for...
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Jan 2, 2006 6:02 am
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Jan. 1, 2006 PENNSYLVANIA: Welsh S. White | Former Phila. Prosecutor Welsh S. White, 65, a former Philadelphia prosecutor and longtime University of Pittsburgh...
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Jan 2, 2006 6:06 am
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Jan. 2 USA: Changing Attitudes About the Death Penalty As 2005 gives way to 2006, the death penalty remains a major item of business on the Supreme Court's...
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Jan 2, 2006 6:10 am
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Jan. 2 TAIWAN: Nation keeps death penalty, but reduces executions-----PHASING OUT: The government hasn't been able to fulfill its goal of abolishing the death ...
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Jan 2, 2006 6:12 am
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Jan. 2 TENNESSEE: Justices Get Case Where Death Row, DNA Collide The major death penalty case before the Supreme Court this year reads like a "whodunit," as...
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Jan 2, 2006 4:58 pm
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Jan. 2 ENGLAND: Churchill favored executing Hitler----Papers show ex-British PM also took hardline on Gandhi British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was...
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Jan 2, 2006 5:00 pm
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Jan. 2 TEXAS: Taylor sets sights on 284th District Court If he makes it through the 2006 Republican primary and general election and goes on to the 284th...
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Jan 2, 2006 6:57 pm
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Jan. 2 GLOBAL: Tookie execution shows how all politics is local A cultural icon in the United States, Arnold Schwarzenegger is even bigger in his native...
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Jan 2, 2006 6:58 pm
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Jan. 2 TEXAS-----impending executions Do Not Execute Marion Butler Dudley! Take action at ...
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Jan 3, 2006 12:51 am
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Jan. 2 INDIA: Worldwide protest called for the abolishment of death penalty A CANDLE light vigil is being organised on January 17 by various Sikh organisations...
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Jan 3, 2006 12:55 am
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Jan. 2 CALIFORNIA: Governor faces clemency decision in another death penalty case----CLARENCE RAY ALLEN WOULD BE OLDEST CALIFORNIA INMATE EVER EXECUTED If...
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Jan 3, 2006 2:22 am
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Jan. 3 ALABAMA: One of FBI's nost wanted faces trial 19 years after wife's murder The case has it all - money, power, an international manhunt and a hit by a...
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Jan 3, 2006 3:11 pm
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Jan. 3 PHILIPPINES: VACC: Implement death penalty now WORRIED about the "worsening peace and order situation" in the country, an anti-crime group has...
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Jan 3, 2006 3:14 pm
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Jan. 3 MISSOURI----new execution date Execution Set For Man In 1989 Slaying Of KC Teen In Jefferson City, the Missouri Supreme Court has set a Feb. 1 execution...
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Jan 4, 2006 12:26 am
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Jan. 3 PENNSYLVANIA: Delayed definition / On a capital issue, the court acts for the Legislature In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of...
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Jan 4, 2006 12:27 am
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Jan. 4 TEXAS: More problems found at troubled HPD crime lab More problems in DNA evidence processed by the Houston Police -- including evidence in 3 death...
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Jan 4, 2006 3:18 pm
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Jan. 4 CALIFORNIA: Chron Cartoon and the Death Penalty Editor, the San Francisco Chronicle -- George Russell in his cartoon published on the editorial page...
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Jan 4, 2006 3:19 pm
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Jan. 4 TEXAS: 'Railroad killer' scheduled to receive execution date Friday A Mexican drifter dubbed the "railroad killer" is scheduled to receive his execution...
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Jan 4, 2006 9:05 pm
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Jan. 4 CALIFORNIA----impending execution Do not execute Clarence Ray Allen, says Secretary General of the Council of Europe "The death penalty is a brutal and...
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Jan 4, 2006 9:10 pm
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Jan. 4 MARYLAND: Thoughts on the death penalty To the editor: As I read the recent flurry of letters regarding the death penalty, one very important point kept...
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Jan 5, 2006 12:42 am
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Jan. 5 TEXAS: TDCJ: Escapee didn't carry key from death row----X-rays would've detected anything killer Thompson smuggled, prison officials say Citing X-rays...
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Jan 5, 2006 9:26 pm
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Jan. 5 MISSISSIPPI: Miss. high court upholds death sentence in George Co. case The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected arguments from a death row inmate...
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Jan 5, 2006 9:31 pm
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Jan. 5 FLORIDA: A spectator's call for execution of Brucia killer goes unpunished Charges have been dropped against a spectator who called for execution at the...
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Jan 5, 2006 9:34 pm
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Jan. 5 OHIO----impending execution Execution date set for inmate The Ohio Supreme Court set a Feb. 7 execution date for Glenn L. Benner II, who nearly 20 years...
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Jan 5, 2006 9:35 pm
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Jan. 5 JAPAN: Acquitted ex-death row inmate Taniguchi died last July An acquitted former death row inmate Shigeyoshi Taniguchi died of heart failure in July...
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Jan 5, 2006 10:52 pm
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Jan. 5 TENNESSEE----stay of execution Gregory Thompson, scheduled to be executed on Feb. 7, has received a stay FLORIDA: State may seek death penalty for...
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Jan 6, 2006 2:33 am
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Jan. 5 OREGON: State puts death penalty into play Charges against the principal suspect in the alleged thrill killing of a rural Sheridan man were elevated to...
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Jan 6, 2006 2:33 am
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Jan. 6 CHINA: Tricky boss given death sentence for huge fraud A business chief who conned hundreds of people out of more than 110 million yuan (13.6 million...
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Jan 6, 2006 2:40 am
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Jan. 6 TEXAS: HPD LAB PROBE----3 more dubious cases found - but aren't on retest list; Shoddy analyses of DNA are raising questions on why some convictions go ...
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Jan 6, 2006 4:03 pm
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Jan. 6 VIRGINIA: Virginia governor orders DNA retested in death penalty case Death penalty opponents praised Gov. Mark R. Warner's order for DNA testing that...