May 1 MARYLAND: Jury to consider death penalty for Byers Jurors are expected to begin deliberating a possible death sentence for a Baltimore drug dealer...
May 1 MISSOURI: Innocent But Found Guilty: Joe Amrine's Life After Death Row For nearly 3 decades, Joe Amrine could only dream of life on the other side of his...
May 1 IRAN----execution Juvenile offender executed in Iran Iran on Friday executed juvenile offender Delara Darabi, in a prison in the northern city of Rasht,...
May 1 COLORADO: Colorado death penalty bill headed to full Senate A proposal to eliminate the death penalty in Colorado is on the way to the full Senate for...
May 1 TENNESSEE: Paul House's defense lawyer wants appeals court to stop new trial A lawyer for a man who spent 22 years on Tennessee's death row for murder ...
May 2 INDIA: SC hands down death sentence to 6 for murdering 5 of family It is in the rarest of rare cases involving cold-blooded brutal murder that the...
May 2 TEXAS: Court affair gives death row inmate a new chance in 1989 Plano murder case A judge has ruled that death row inmate Charles Dean Hood should get ...
May 2 MARYLAND: Deliberations begin in murder witness trial----Jury considers death penalty, life in prison for Byers A federal jury will resume deliberations...
May 2 OKLAHOMA: Change made appeals predictable----DEATH PENALTY----Legal reforms came as result of Oklahoma City bombing Reforms pushed by people who lost...
May 2 IRAN----execution Iran hangs woman for murder committed when minor: report Iran has executed a woman convicted of murdering her father's cousin when she...
May 3 NEBRASKA: Death penalty pits costs vs. closure Howard Morton is a 78-year-old former jet fighter pilot and Korean War veteran, who raised nine children...
May 3 INDIA: SC awards death sentence to 6 in dacoity, rape, murder case The Supreme Court has awarded death penalty to 6 people in a 2003 dacoity, rape and...
May 4 JAPAN: 63% support death penalty as lay judges 63 % of people who may be called to serve as lay judges would choose the death penalty for a criminal...
May 4 CALIFORNIA: Court Upholds Sentence Of Only SF Death Row Inmate The California Supreme Court Monday reaffirmed a death sentence for the only San Francisco...
May 4 OHIO: Death-penalty murder trial to begin soon Jury selection has begun for the capital murder case of Antwon Lanier in the Aug. 6, 2005, death of Sierra...
May 4 BARBADOS: Barbados government abolishing mandatory death sentence ---- There has not been a hanging - the method used to carry out the death penalty in ...
May 4 NEW HAMPSHIRE: Senate's mixed results In addition to tackling the issue of same-sex marriage last week, the N.H. state Senate also took on other divisive...
May 4 COLORADO: Death Penalty Repeal Fails in Colorado An effort to repeal Colorados death penalty law stumbled Monday in the State Senate after 2 hours of...
May 4 ASIA----new book The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and The Death Penalty in Asia, by David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring ...
May 5 MISSOURI----impending execution Skillicorn's requests for stay of execution denied The Missouri Supreme Court today denied 2 stay-of-execution requests...
May 5 ILLINOIS: Was Brian Dugan trying to save his own skin? More than 2 decades ago, Brian J. Dugan offered to confess if his life was spared for the 1983...
May 5 WEST VIRGINIA----federal death penalty case New Trial In Mingo County Death Penalty Case 2 Mingo County residents convicted in a federal death penalty...
May 5 ASIA: Penalties for drug-related crime in Asia Asia is a major source of opium and heroin for the world market, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and...
May 6 TEXAS: Murder retrial of former Missouri City's Fratta begins Prosecutors this morning told jurors they would hear testimony from at least 4 men that...
May 6 COLORADO: "a nail-biter"----Death-penalty ban's last shot at Capitol; A bill sponsor says it could be revived before the session ends today----Colo. may...
May 6 TENNESSEE: Man Charged in Chilhowie Home Invasion Death Now Faces Death Penalty The man charged with murder in a home invasion near Chilhowie in December...
May 6 UGANDA: Amuka Militiamen to Hang Over Murder GRIEF filled the High Court in Lira district when 2 former Amuka militiamen were sentenced to death by...
May 6 COLORADO: Colo. Senate votes against repealing death penalty The Colorado Senate has defeated a proposal to repeal the death penalty and use the savings...
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