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  • Anti-government extremist asks court to stay execution in Alabama

    08/04/2005 9:57:05 AM PDT · by kiriath_jearim · 6 replies · 333+ views
    AP ^ | 8/3/05 | n/a
    Posted on Wed, Aug. 03, 2005 Anti-government extremist asks court to stay execution in Alabama Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. - An anti-government extremist convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of an Opelika police officer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his execution, which is set for Thursday. George Sibley Jr., 62, who previously has contended the courts don't have any jurisdiction over him, filed the petition Wednesday. His personally written filing says his appeal has never been fully reviewed by the court in Washington, D.C., and it is "crucial in a case such as this." The...
  • Texan executed for slaying Minnesota woman

    07/28/2005 6:03:39 PM PDT · by GW and Twins Pawpaw · 26 replies · 921+ views
    KBCD ^ | 7/28/05 | AP
    The State of Texas avenged the death of a young woman from Minnesota this evening. She fought valiantly and died with honor. Then the perp carved an 'X' into her chest. I wish her parents respite from their grief.
  • Killer is set to die tonight for slaying of woman in 1997

    07/28/2005 3:58:30 AM PDT · by Shawndell Green · 24 replies · 722+ views
    Associated Press via HoustonChronicle.com ^ | July 27, 2005 | MICHAEL GRACZYK
    Known as 'Wolf,' he met his victim in an Austin park HUNTSVILLE - When she last spoke with her sister, 24-year-old Kiersa Paul said she was heading out on her bicycle to a popular Austin park to meet a guy she felt sorry for and knew only as "Wolf." The predator nickname turned out prophetic. The next morning, Paul was found dead. She'd been raped, strangled, her throat cut at least eight times and an "X" etched into her chest. David Martinez, known as Wolf, was arrested days after the 1997 slaying. Travis County jurors deliberated only 15 minutes before...
  • Loving Big Brother (London Police Shooting)

    07/26/2005 10:36:38 PM PDT · by Coleus · 60 replies · 1,394+ views
    The New American ^ | 07.26.05 | William Norman Grigg
    Loving Big Brother by William Norman Grigg July 26, 2005   The killing of Jean Charles de Meneze by London police, who wrongly suspected Meneze of being a suicide bomber, demonstrated the folly of giving police a license to kill on the basis of suspicion. Yet some neoconservatives "love" this and other Big Brother policies. The July 22 shooting death of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes at the hands of plainclothes London police left Fox News commentator John Gibson swooning with admiration."I love the way the Brits have 10 million cameras sticking up the nose of every citizen...
  • EU Reminds Iran of Moratorium on Executions (Again. yawn.)

    07/26/2005 8:38:56 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 10 replies · 192+ views
    IRNA ^ | 7/26/05
    7/26/05 EU reminds Iran of moratorium on executions Tehran, July 26, IRNA- European Union on Tuesday expressed concern over reports of executions of two youths in Mashhad on July 19. EU said in statement faxed to IRNA by British Embassy in Tehran that one of the youths, Mahmoud Asgari, was aged under 18 at both the time of the crime and the execution. "The EU recalls its long held position that capital punishment may not, in any circumstances, be imposed on persons below 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime. Such punishment is in...
  • Subject of high court retardation ruling still faces execution

    07/25/2005 2:18:34 PM PDT · by Graybeard58 · 15 replies · 412+ views
    Waterbury Republican-American ^ | July 25, 2005 | A.P.
    YORKTOWN, Va. -- Is Daryl Atkins mentally retarded? That question will be the sole focus of a trial set to begin this week, and the answer will determine whether he lives or dies. Atkins, 27, is the Virginia inmate whose case led the U.S. Supreme Court three years ago to bar execution of the mentally retarded as unconstitutionally cruel. Yet he has remained on death row for the 1996 robbery and murder of an Air Force enlisted man. While the high court's ruling protected the severely mentally retarded, it provided little guidance for the far greater number of inmates, like...
  • Lethal injection drug scrutinized

    07/04/2005 10:50:11 PM PDT · by SmithL · 46 replies · 890+ views
    AP ^ | 7/5/5 | COLIN FLY
    NASHVILLE - Have condemned inmates who've died because of lethal injection done so peacefully or has a drug that paralyzes the muscle system masked horrific side effects? States are grappling with that question in the latest wave of death row appeals. The Tennessee Supreme Court heard arguments about the drug Pavulon, or pancuronium bromide, in a death row case last month, and is expected to rule by September. In Kentucky, a similar issue is expected to reach the state Supreme Court soon. In Missouri, an inmate got a last-minute stay in May so the U.S. Supreme Court could review his...
  • Houston killer welcomes execution tonight

    06/07/2005 3:56:35 PM PDT · by Dog Gone · 34 replies · 1,346+ views
    associated press ^ | June7, 2005
    TDCJ Alexander Martin: Evidence showed he slit the throat of  Helen Oliveros, had sex with her after she was dead and took about $150 from her. HUNTSVILLE — Condemned inmate Alexander Martinez figures death can't be worse than the life he now has on Texas death row. "You wonder what's past this," Martinez said recently from a small visiting cage at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice near Livingston. "I'm going to find out."Martinez, who would turn 29 next week, ordered all appeals stopped and is volunteering for lethal injection scheduled for Tuesday evening in Huntsville."I...
  • US death row inmate, denied chance to donate liver to sister, is executed

    05/25/2005 9:53:22 AM PDT · by Borges · 37 replies · 1,020+ views
    Yahoo-AFP ^ | 5/25/05
    CHICAGO (AFP) - A death row inmate who was denied the chance to donate his liver to his ailing sister was put to death after the governor of Indiana rejected his last-minute clemency request. Gregory Scott Johnson, 40, died by lethal injection shortly after midnight (0500 GMT), said Indiana corrections spokeswoman Java Ahmed. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels said he denied the request on the advice of doctors who said Johnson was not a suitable donor because he is overweight and has Hepatitis B. Johnson was convicted in 1986 of beating an 82-year-old woman to death during a burglary and setting...
  • New England and the Death Penalty

    05/19/2005 4:43:01 AM PDT · by billorites · 21 replies · 526+ views
    Providence Journal ^ | May 19, 2005 | Froma Harrup
    The lethal injection that peacefully dispatched Michael Ross did far more violence to New England's sense of self than to the serial killer. The region hadn't witnessed an execution in four decades. The sight of harsh Southern customs creeping into their blue-state bastion deeply unnerved many New Englanders. Twelve states currently do not have the death penalty. They are mostly in New England and the upper Midwest. Many others, including Connecticut, have it on the books but generally don't execute people. Capital punishment has become a major source of anti-U.S. feelings in Europe and elsewhere. But most Europeans don't understand...
  • When capital punishment is enacted in New England, you know it's about politics

    05/18/2005 5:30:21 PM PDT · by manny613 · 13 replies · 706+ views
    The lethal injection that peacefully dispatched Michael Ross did far more violence to New England's sense of self than to the serial killer. The region hadn't witnessed an execution in four decades. The sight of harsh Southern customs creeping into their blue-state bastion deeply unnerved many New Englanders.
  • Twice Convicted Killer Executed in Mo.

    05/18/2005 8:39:37 AM PDT · by Borges · 14 replies · 479+ views
    ABC-AP ^ | 5/18/05 | BETSY TAYLOR
    BONNE TERRE, Mo. -- A twice-convicted murderer who strangled a 9-year-old girl in St. Louis in 1986 was executed early Wednesday after a split vote by the U.S. Supreme Court. Vernon Brown, 51, was pronounced dead at 2:25 a.m. at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correctional Center, nearly 2 1/2 hours after his execution was scheduled. The execution was delayed when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a temporary stay shortly after midnight. But on a 5-4 vote, the court later lifted that stay and denied the stay. Lawyers for Brown had argued that the drugs used in lethal...
  • Demonstrators Gather on Eve of Killer's Execution Date - Michael Ross to be executed 2:01 AM EST

    05/12/2005 10:13:11 PM PDT · by Former Military Chick · 16 replies · 641+ views
    NY TImes ^ | May 13, 2005 | WILLIAM YARDLEY and STACEY STOWE
    SOMERS, Conn., May 12 - Demonstrators Thursday protested Connecticut's plans to execute a convicted serial killer early Friday morning, after two decades of legal efforts to prevent his death appeared to have failed and he declared his desire to die. Death penalty opponents held vigil outside the rural complex of state prisons where the killer, Michael Bruce Ross, was waiting for a warden to lead him to the execution chamber and an unidentified executioner was to administer a lethal injection into his arm at 2:01 a.m.. Mr. Ross, 45, had sought that fatal moment for nearly a year. In defiance...
  • U.S. Supreme Court stops efforts to halt Ross execution (Connecticut)

    05/12/2005 9:01:11 PM PDT · by nutmeg · 21 replies · 625+ views
    WTNH.com - News Channel 8 ^ | May 12, 2005 Updated at 11:28 PM | WTNH.com/AP
    (Somers-AP, May 12, 2005 Update 11:28 PM ) _ A serial killer who struggled to hasten his own death -- and was forced to prove he wasn't out of his mind -- awaited lethal injection early Friday in New England's first execution in 45 years. Michael Ross, 45, was scheduled to be put to death at 2:01 a.m. after fighting off attempts by public defenders, death penalty foes and his own family to save his life. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected two last-minute appeals from Ross' relatives late Thursday afternoon, and the U.S. Supreme...
  • Serial Killer Michael Ross Executed in Connecticut

    05/12/2005 11:37:31 PM PDT · by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better · 103 replies · 4,450+ views
    FOX NEWS ^ | 5/12/05 | FOXNEWS
    Serial Killer Michael Ross Executed in Connecticut
  • Connecticut Carries Out Its First Execution in 45 Years

    05/13/2005 6:39:11 AM PDT · by Pikamax · 41 replies · 753+ views
    NYTIMES ^ | 05/13/05 | WILLIAM YARDLEY
    Connecticut Carries Out Its First Execution in 45 Years By WILLIAM YARDLEY and STACEY STOWE SOMERS, Conn., May 13 - Connecticut carried out its first execution in 45 years early today, administering a lethal injection to Michael Bruce Ross, a convicted serial killer who abandoned his appeals and died willingly after 18 years on death row. About 300 death penalty opponents held vigil in the cold and dark outside the rural complex of state prisons where a warden led Mr. Ross to the execution chamber and an unidentified executioner began administering a lethal injection into his arm shortly after the...
  • Michael Ross (serial killer in Connecticut) executed

    05/13/2005 6:07:41 AM PDT · by nutmeg · 41 replies · 1,303+ views
    WTNH.com ^ | May 13, 2005 - Updated 5:30 AM | WTNH.com - News Channel 8
    (Somers-WTNH/AP, May 13, 2005 Updated 5:30 AM) _ A serial killer who fought to hasten his own execution and was forced to prove he wasn't out of his mind was put to death early Friday in New England's first execution in 45 years. Michael Ross, 45, died by injection at 2:25 a.m. after fighting off attempts by public defenders, death penalty foes and his own family to spare his life. "Today is a day no one truly looked forward to, but then no one looked forward to the brutal, heinous deaths of those eight young girls," Gov. M. Jodi Rell...
  • Capano's Execution Date Delayed (Delaware)

    05/11/2005 8:20:46 AM PDT · by Pyro7480 · 14 replies · 1,395+ views
    WDEL (AP) ^ | 5/9/2005 | n/a
    Capano's execution date delayed Another delay for the execution of Tom Capano. Superior Court Judge Henley Graves today stayed the June seventh execution date he set nearly two months ago. The stay will allow Capano's appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court to be considered. Capano was sentenced to death for the murder of Anne Marie Fahey in 1996. Prosecutors said Capano killed Fahey, the scheduling secretary for then-governor Tom Carper, because she was breaking off an affair with him. The Delaware Supreme Court is still also considering a motion by Capano's attorney, Joseph Bernstein, to appoint a lawyer to represent...
  • N.C. Man Executed for 1991 Slayings of 4

    05/06/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT · by Borges · 26 replies · 1,308+ views
    AP | 5/6/05 | WILLIAM L. HOLMES
    RALEIGH, N.C. -- The killer of two women and a pair of young children was executed by injection early Friday after failed attempts by lawyers to reduce his sentence to life in prison. Earl Richmond Jr., 43, was pronounced dead at 2:19 a.m. at the state's Central Prison in Raleigh, said Pamela Walker, spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department. Richmond spent Thursday meeting with family members and his lawyers, Walker said. One of Richmond's attorneys, Jonathan Broun, said Richmond transformed himself in prison. Richmond had discovered religion and felt sorrow for his victims. "The old Earl Richmond that did these...
  • Only White House can seal execution of Akbar - Bush has yet to put his name to military execution

    05/02/2005 9:03:30 AM PDT · by Former Military Chick · 31 replies · 1,041+ views
    AP ^ | 04/30/05 | ESTES THOMPSON
    RALEIGH, N.C. — Relatives of those killed in Sgt. Hasan Akbar's grenade attack on his comrades said yesterday that he deserved a jury's death sentence, but experts in military law say it's hardly certain the execution will ever happen. The military hasn't executed one of its own since 1961, while states have put scores of civilian killers to death. Experts say the key difference in military justice is the role of the president, who, unlike a governor, must take an active role when a service member gets the ultimate punishment. ''It is unique to the military justice system that there...