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- MARCH 28, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas' Standard for Determining Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases.
USA - Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas' Standard for Determining Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases.
MARCH 28, 2017DEATH PENALTYU.S. SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS TEXAS' ‘OUTLIER’ STANDARD FOR DETERMINING INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN CAPITAL CASES
In the case of Bobby Moore (Moore v. Texas, 15-797) the Court has struck down Texas' standard for evaluating intellectual disability in death penalty cases, calling the state's approach an "outlier" that, "by design and in operation, ... creates an unacce
- MARCH 27, 2017TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Texas Murder Victims' Parents Seek Death Sentence Commutation for Paul Storey
USA - Texas. Texas Murder Victims' Parents Seek Death Sentence Commutation for Paul Storey
MARCH 27, 2017DEATH PENALTYTEXAS (USA): MURDER VICTIMS' PARENTS SEEK DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTATION FOR PAUL STOREY
The parents of a man slain have signed an affidavit calling on the state not to execute one of the killers next month. Glenn and Judy Cherry, whose son Jonas Cherry was killed on Oct. 16, 2006 during a robbery, wrote a letter to state and local authoritie
MARCH 26, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: BAGHDAD COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH OVER LINKS TO ISIS HACKING
An Iraqi criminal court has sentenced a man to death on terrorism charges over links to secretive Islamic State (ISIS) hacking programs.
MARCH 25, 2017YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HOUTHI COURT
A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group's enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for "high treason".
- MARCH 24, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Julie O'Kane vacated the death sentence of Derrick McLean because it was not unanimous
USA - Florida. Judge Julie O'Kane vacated the death sentence of Derrick McLean because it was not unanimous
- MARCH 24, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Bob LeBlanc vacated the death sentence of David Frances because it was not unanimous
USA - Florida. Judge Bob LeBlanc vacated the death sentence of David Frances because it was not unanimous
- MARCH 24, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Marc Lubet vacated the death sentence of Sean Smith because it was not unanimous
USA - Florida. Judge Marc Lubet vacated the death sentence of Sean Smith because it was not unanimous
MARCH 24, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: HOSNI MUBARAK FREED, SIX YEARS AFTER OVERTHROW
Six years after baying crowds ousted him at the peak of the Arab Spring, former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was freed on March 24 from the Cairo hospital where he had been detained, capping a long and largely fruitless effort to hold him accountable
MARCH 24, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: YOUNG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR INSULTING THE PROPHET
Iran’s supreme court upheld a death sentence for a young man in Arak, central Iran, after he was found guilty of “insulting the Prophet Muhammad” on the Internet.
- MARCH 23, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Citing Hurst, the Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence of Randall Deviney
USA - Florida. Citing Hurst, the Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence of Randall Deviney