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| Virginia: Jackson executed for 2000 murder from Death Penalty News |
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Kent Jermaine Jackson was put to death tonight for the murder of an elderly Newport News neighbor 8 years ago. Jackson, 26, was executed by injection and was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m. He was convicted of capital murder for the brutal slaying of Beulah Mae Kaiser, 79, a widow who lived across the hall from Jackson and his roommate, Joseph M. Dorsett, 29. Dorsett also participated in April 16, 2000, slaying and was sentenced to 135 years. Kaiser's body was discovered in her apartment 2 days later. Her walking cane was shoved down her throat, a jugular vein cut and her skull fractured. She had been kicked, suffered several other stab wounds and had been sexually assaulted. Jackson and Dorsett were charged a year later and Jackson gave a recorded confession. Though he admitted stabbing Kaiser with a knife, he denied using the cane. His lawyers contend that Dorsett, who escaped a death sentence, used the cane and was the actual killer. According to a Virginia Supreme Court summary ...
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| Texas: Man who killed parents executed Thursday from Death Penalty News |
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A very apologetic Carlton Turner was executed Thursday night for the slayings of his adoptive parents a decade ago at their suburban Dallas home. "I've been sorry for the last 10 years. I wish you could accept my apology," he said to an uncle who watched impassively through a window. "I know you can't give your forgiveness. It's OK. I understand. I know I caused a lot of pain." Turner said he hoped his family could come to terms with what he did. "I accept the responsibility. I take this penalty as a man. I am sorry." 7 minutes later, he was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. CDT. The execution was carried out more than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last 2 appeals. Almost 10 months ago, the Supreme Court had spared him almost 4 hours after he could have been executed. Turner was the 2nd Texas inmate executed this year. At least 14 others are set to die over the next few months, including 2 more this month. In a long rambling message on an anti-death penalty Web ...
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| California: Death penalty's survival uncertain, state finds ---- El Dorado County prosecutor agrees from Death Penalty News |
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Some 71 years after the last hanging of an inmate at Folsom Prison, California's death penalty is fatally flawed, according to a state commission report. The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice was established in 2004 in part to determine the extent to which the state's legal system has caused wrongful executions. It reported June 30 that the state must narrow its death penalty, in part because the penalty is impossibly expensive to continue in its current broad form. Under the statute now in effect, a full 87 % of California's 1st-degree murders are "death eligible," and could be prosecuted as death cases, the commission noted. Any of a total of 22 "special circumstances" can be cited by local prosecutors in seeking a death penalty. The list includes drive-by murder. A federal Justice Department study in 2000 found numerous racial and geographic disparities applied to death penalty sentences. Bill Clark, chief assistant district attorney for El Dorado C ...
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The latest version of Death Row U.S.A. has been released by the Capital Punishment Project of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc . The report contains death row and execution data for all states and federal jurisdictions as of January 1, 2008. The report lists inmates by state, name, and race. The report also contains information on each person executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and information on U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The last version of DRUSA was Jan. 1, 2007. The latest report includes the following statistics: The total number of inmates on death rows across the country is 3,309, a decrease from 3,350 reported on January 1, 2007. The jurisdictions with the most inmates on death row are: - California (667) - Florida (397) - Texas (373) - Pennsylvania (228). The jurisdictions (having 10 or more inmates) with the highest percentage of minorities on death row are: - Texas (70%) - Pennsylvania (69%) - Louisiana (66%). ...
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| Japanese lawyer indignant after her client is executed without notice from Death Penalty News |
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On June 17, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Shinji Mutsuda and Yoshio Yamazaki were executed in Japan. Lawyer Maiko Tagusari, who defended one of the three men, denounces the rising number of executions in her country. ?On the morning of June 17, my client on death row, Tsutomu Miyazaki, was executed in Tokyo Detention Centre without any prior notice, as well as two other inmates, one also in Tokyo and the other in Osaka. Since the inauguration of the current Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama, there have been executions every two months. He has executed as many as 13 people in only 6 months. I was therefore gravely worried that my client's execution could be imminent. Miyazaki was mentally ill and had been receiving psychiatric medical treatment in the detention centre for more than a decade. I had been preparing for an appeal for retrial for the last several months, obtaining his medical record from the detention centre authorities and requesting an expert to examine his mental condition. On May 30 ...
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| China refuses to consider 250,000-strong petition from Death Penalty News |
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A World Coalition delegation found the door closed on June 16 when they attempted to handover to the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong a petition urging for changes in the death penalty system in China. Stopped at the outside door of the building, it was refused the chance to be met by any official on the explanation that ?this is a political issue?. The petition, calling for the lift of state secrecy on the practice of the death penalty and a moratorium on executions, was signed by 256,457 persons from all around the world. Earlier in the morning, the WCADP held a press conference in Hong Kong to present its demands and compare the death penalty situation in China with global trends in Asia and the rest of the world. Death penalty remains a particular concern in China, where thousands of people continue to be sentenced to death and executed each year, often after hasty and unfair trial. ?They've destroyed my future? ?I just had one son, all my hopes rested on him. They?ve dest ...
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| Indonesia executes shaman for murdering dozens of women from Death Penalty News |
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Jakarta - Indonesia has executed a man sentenced to death a decade ago for murdering 42 women in "black magic" rituals, despite a call from international human rights group to halt the execution, officials said Friday. The self-proclaimed shaman Ahmad Suradji, 59, was executed by a firing squad in an open field in Deli Serdang district, about 40 kilometres outside the North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan on Thursday night, said B Nainggolan, spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney General's Office. "The execution was carried out shortly before 10 pm Thursday," Nainggolan said, adding that Suradji's body was immediately brought to Deli Serdang's public hospital for an autopsy, before handed over to his family for burial. He said before being executed Suradji had been granted all of his rights, including a chance to meet with his wife and other close relatives. Suradji was sentenced to death in 1998 after police found the women's bodies buried in a sugar cane field. He confessed to ...
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| Iran: 4 hanged in public from Death Penalty News |
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The Iranian regime publicly hanged four people in Borazjan, southern Boushehr province, on Thursday July 10, reported Khalij Fars provincial News Agency. The public hangings were carried out after the mullahs' judiciary chief, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, announced last February that "The death penalty should be carried out behind closed doors." He also banned television footages and publication of photographs of executions. But the ruling clerics, fearing the increasing popular uprisings and protests have turned to its medieval public hanging to terrorize the people. Another prisoner was hanged in Sanandaj central prison, western Iran, on July 10. Execution of Ahmad Khalaj took place while he could not stand on his feet due to his ailment. His sentence was carried out in total violation of international human rights regulations. Source: Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran It's not about what they did. It's about what we do.
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| Indonesia widens use of death penalty from Death Penalty News |
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In Indonesia, the death penalty is carried out by firing squad. When the time comes, after any final wishes have been granted, the prisoner is taken to a field to stand in front of 12 gunmen. A single shot is fired from each rifle, carefully aimed at the chest. If that does not kill the prisoner, the commander will fire a point-blank shot to the head. This is how it went for Ahmad Suradji, 57, who was executed late Thursday night for the murder of 42 women a decade ago. No family or witnesses were allowed. This was how it also went for 2 Nigerians executed June 26 on drug trafficking charges. Indonesia resumed executing prisoners in June after a 14-month hiatus, during which time the Constitutional Court here upheld the death penalty for drug offenders. Indonesia has some of the strictest penalties for drug crimes in the world. Though more than half of the prisoners on death row are there for drug-related charges, Samuel Iwachekwu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaliosa, the Nigerian na ...
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| Appointed to the Maryland Study Commission from For Victims, Against the Death Penalty |
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We're delighted to announce that MVFHR Board Chair Vicki Schieber has just been appointed to Maryland's Capital Punishment Study Commission. Governor O'Malley announced the appointment of the Commission's 22 members earlier today. This article gives information about all the members. This is the second MVFHR member to serve on a state's death penalty study commission; Charlie Strobel has been serving in Tennessee for the past year.
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