Opposed to the death penalty? If you're the victim of a capital murder, a proposed Virginia law would prohibit your killer from being executed 

Racial Discrimination Results in New Trial for Philadelphia Death Row Inmate 

President of Ruanda claims to journalists he is against death penalty 

Kansas continues review of death penalty law 

President Emile Lahoud of Lebanon expressed his commitment to imposing a moratorium on executions while he is in office 

A hope for Mumia: judge overturns death sentence 

New law permitted to commute a death sentence for mentally ill 

Chicago Death Row Case Reopened 

Maryland's highest court upheld the state's death penalty law,  pleading  Gov. to impose a moratorium on executions 

Female death sentence overturned.Appeals court overturns woman's death verdict, orders new trial 

Young offenders taken off death row 

According to Misna, Safiya Tungar Tudu, sentenced to death by stoning, got a stay 

Another Death Penalty Conviction Overturned 

U.S. appeals court stays execution of Georgia killer  

Debate on  Capital Punishment, after release of amn on death row  - 12/09/01 

Executions Stayed in Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas - 12/09/01 

Indiana Trial Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional - 10/09/01 

Oklahoma Court Stays Execution of Mexican Gerardo Valdez - 10/09/01 

Ukraine, suppression of the death penalty from the penal code. 

Death Row Inmate Ordered Released.  

State's chief justice calls for reform in death penalty defense system.

Illinois Governor Vetoes Death Penalty Expansion 

Oklahoma Governor Grants Temporary Reprieve for Mexican National. 

 Beazkey - Texas Appeals Court Stays Execution of Teen Killer. 

Journalism Students Help Missouri Death Row Inmate Get New Trial. 

Gov. Mike Easley signed: N.C. Bans Execution of Retarded. 

N.C. OKs Ban on Executing Retarded. Governor is expected not to veto.

Parliament gives up with the proposal of re-introduction of death penalty.

Presiden Portillo asks for abolition of death penalty.

No death penalty in Khmer Rouge trials.

Justice O'Connor Expresses Concern on Death Penalty: Innocent May Be Killed.

Missouri bans death penalty for mentally retarded. 

Young man from Yemen escapes execution,at the very last moment.

House committee approves law to scrap death penalty

Jeb Bush Signs Bill Barring Executing the Retarded.

Jury Rejects Death for Embassy Bomber.

"Joaquim Jos� Martinez, out of the death row because found innocent.

Is travelling in these days through the main Spanish cities to meet and greet all those who supported him in his struggle to be freed.

After visiting Madrid, on Thursday, June 12th 2001 he will be in Catalonia to meet the Community of Sant'Egidio of Barcelona."

HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE OF JOHNNY PENRY.

Press relise inside  

Texas may ban executing retarded

Gary Wayne Drinkard, 45,  5 5 years spent on death row, was set free  after a jury found him innocent

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a new Criminal Code that formally abolished the  death penalty 

Death sentence overturned

Moratorium and Legislation News from around the Nation 

Ohio Man Spared Execution for Second Time in Month 

Death Row Inmate to Be Set Free. 

FBI Kept Files From McVeigh's Lawyers: Bush Backs Ashcroft's Delay to June11. 

Missouri Bill to Ban Execution of Mentally Retarded Passes Legislature; Awaits Governor's Signature. 

Cloud of scandal hangs over 12 Death Row cases.

Episcopalian prison ministers said the execution made the time ripe for a moratorium on the death penalty.

Florida Bill Bans Executing Retarded.

Fla. Judge Sets Aside Death Sentence of a man scheduled to die the next day.

Arizona Governor Signs Law Prohibiting the Execution of the Mentally Retarded. 

UN approves call for the world moratorium of the death penalty.

Press release of the  Community of Sant'Egidio.(Italiano) 

Conservative Nevada Republican Supports Death Penalty Moratorium and Study.

High Court Halts Execution in Va.

Judge Rejects Execution Of Md. Killer For 3rd Time

Gov. commutes death sentence.

Ukraine bans death penalty.

The president commutes all death row list to life terms..

Chile abolisches the death penalty.

Maryland Moratorium Bill Passes Senate Committee.

Texas Passes DNA Bill.

Philip Workman, whose execution was scheduled in  a few days, got a stay of the Supreme Court.

The Baltimore Sun on Maryland moratorium bill.

Death penalty bill goes forward

Federal Legislation Aimed at Preventing Wrongful Executions Introduced In Congress.

Turkey  to abolish the death penalty, inorder to  become a member of the U.E.

Death penalty bill soundly defeated.

Eleventh-hour stay of execution for N.C. death-row inmate.

Antonio Richardson, mentally retarded, got a stay.

The Senate forbids the execution of the mentally retarded

Lawmakers Review Death Penalty Issues .

The mentally retarded could not be executed under a bill that won unanimous support in a House committee vote Tuesday .

The US is closing in on its 700th execution,  US courts block death penalty cases .

Okla. Governor Grants Stay to Death Row Inmate.

Ernest Paul McCarver, who was scheduled to be executed at 2:00 am on March 2, was granted a reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Illinois Lawmakers Propose Death Penalty Abolition.

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia and the 16 other Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania have issued a document that restates their opposition to the use of the death penalty.

Fla. Court Overturns '82 Conviction.

Earl Washington Jr. was freed from prison after a DNA test.

Lawmakers Call for Execution Moratorium.

Federal Court  Grants Philip Workman a Stay of Execution.

Conservative Virginia Republicans Propose Death Penalty Moratorium and Abolition Legislation.

Clinton commutes the death penalty of David Ronald Chandle.

The N.C. Supreme Court suspends the execution of  Bobby Lee Harris.

Christopher Ochoa, 34, freed after DNA test, declares``It is my wish that the death penalty be abolished in the state of Texas so that it can no longer be used as a threat to coerce confessions from the innocent.�.

Chouf MP George Deeb Neameh called on Thursday for "completely abolishing" capital punishment and for examining the true social and economic causes of crime.

Three commutations into life-sentences.

Second Exonerated Inmate Released from Louisiana's Death Row.

Death-Row Inmate Gets Reprieve.

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