Capital Punishment News

 
Indiana man charged with murdering 3rd woman; prosecutor seeking death penalty
Washington Post
Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson said he plans to seek the death penalty against the 54-year-old Gibson. Henderson said investigators don't know of any other victims, and he declined to say whether Gibson had accompanied authorities in searches ...

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Death penalty still haunts judicial system
The Auburn Plainsman
The statistics released by the National Registry of Exonerations is particularly alarming when you remember that 33 states still execute citizens found guilty of committing capital crimes. Even the staunchest of the death penalty's supporters must ...

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Los Angeles Times
DA to seek death penalty in killings of homeless men, two others
Los Angeles Times
OC prosecutor says former Marine Itzcoatl Ocampo deserves capital punishment because of the planning involved in the deaths and the violence inflicted on the victims. Prosecutors say that Itzcoatl Ocampo set a personal goal of 16 slayings and targeted ...

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AFP
Exiled Tunisian leader denies role in protester deaths: lawyer
Reuters
| TUNIS (Reuters) - The lawyer of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali denied on Thursday that the deposed Tunisian leader had given orders to fire on protesters during last year's revolution and condemned a Tunisian prosecutor's calls for the death penalty.
Death penalty sought for Tunisia ex-leaderArabinform

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Missouri opts for untested drug for executions
Fox News
"This is very, very concerning with a drug that we don't know, and seeing the problems of the one-drug method," said Kathleen Holmes of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Until recently, the 33 states with the death penalty used a ...

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4 Western US states shielding part of executions
CBS News
A decade later, four of the states have kept part of each execution away from public view, according to an Associated Press review and death penalty experts. Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Montana have conducted 14 lethal injections since the ruling, ...

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Lakritz: Capital punishment drags state down to criminals' level
Calgary Herald
But as long as capital punishment exists, as long as state parole boards can calmly condemn a man to death and then go about their business as if nothing were morally wrong with this, the United States is not the greatest country in the world.