Death Penalty News
RTD - Condemned man opts for electric chair
The Death Penalty in Virginia
Friday, 03 July 2009

By Frank Green

Published: July 2, 2009

Paul Warner Powell has chosen to die in the electric chair if he is executed as scheduled July 14 for the 1999 slaying of a 16-year-old girl.

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Talk Radio News Service - Human Rights Group Protests Capital Punishment In Nation’s Capital
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Friday, 03 July 2009

By Courtney Costello-Talk Radio News Service

The Abolitionist Action Committee, a human rights organization promoting nonviolent alternatives to the death penalty, have been staging a hunger strike for the past 4 days to mark the anniversaries of two very different landmark rulings over execution, Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia.

 
AP - Supreme Court delays Troy Davis decision
Questions of Innocence
Tuesday, 30 June 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

SAVANNAH — Death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis got another legal break Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court recessed for summer without acting on his latest appeal, likely delaying any developments in his case until fall. Earlier, his supporters presented Savannah’s district attorney with 60,000 petition signatures urging him to reopen the case.

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Amarillo.com - Op/Ed: Be careful when you're 'assuming'
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Monday, 22 June 2009

By Linda L. White

MAGNOLIA - Your recent editorial regarding the death penalty mentioned that one particular number was left out of the equation because it's too difficult to calculate - that of the number of victims of these 200 executed along with other victims of horrendous crimes. Left out also was the incalculable suffering of these victims.

I am one of those victims.

My 26-year-old daughter, Cathy, was murdered 22 years ago.

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