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• Uganda: Homosexual Death Penalty Legislation Could Become Law

  
  The Admonition — Authority: 139
  There is shocking legislation proposed in the African country of Uganda; homosexual death penalty could be the punishment for some gays who knowingly have sex if they are HIV positive. Another aspect of the legislation stipulates that friends and family members who knowingly support their lifestyle could get as much ...
  2 hours ago

• Secretary of State Clinton condemns Uganda’s anti-gay bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  In response to a letter co-authored by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (R-WI), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Uganda’s anti-gay bill which would authorize the death penalty to homosexuals under certain conditions, and harsh prison sentences for all the others. From HRC Back Story:Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
  4 hours ago

• The $3,000,000.00 Euthanasia

  
  The Sirens Chronicles — Authority: 429
  The State of Ohio, an economic basket case for much of the last 40 years, probably spent about $3,000,000.00 to snuff Ken Biros today. They are using a new method, as we discussed earlier . However, they continue to have a problem finding veins; they had to poke around on this guy quite awhile. The last guy they ...
  7 hours ago

• A few early questions following Ohios successful one-drug lethal injection execution

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 471
  As noted here , the state of Ohio today succeeded in completing an execution using a single-drug lethal injection  protocol.  Time will tell if this event proves to be a big turning point or just a blip in the dynamic story of the modern administration of capital punishment in the United States.  But, before we ...
  7 hours ago

• The $3,000,000.00 Euthanasia

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 134
  The State of Ohio, an economic basket case for much of the last 40 years, probably spent about $3,000,000.00 to snuff Ken Biros today.They are using a new method, as we discussed earlier. However, they continue to have a problem finding veins; they had to poke around on this guy quite awhile. The last guy [...]
  8 hours ago

• Travis County DA fails to win death penalty in most cases they s...

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Statewide, fewer juries give death penalty verdicts, including most capital cases in Travis County (via Grits for Breakfast)
  10 hours ago

• New Execution Method used in USA

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 142
  Good or Bad News?Really pleased that we are living in a new kinder gentler USAOhio prison officials executed a death row inmate, Kenneth Biros, Tuesday with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection, a method never before used on a human.The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are ...
  11 hours ago

• Inmate Apologizes for Murder, is Executed in First 1-Drug Injection

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 658
  After apologizing for murdering a 22-year-old woman in 1991, a death row inmate was executed in Ohio today in a historic one-drug lethal injection that the director of state prisons described as problem-free. Kenneth Biros, who is in his early 50s, died in about 10 minutes once thiopental sodium began flowing into his ...
  11 hours ago

• U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee Examines Habeas Restrictions in Capital Cases

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Right now the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing to, " Consider the Impact of Federal Habeas Corpus Limitations on Death Penalty Appeals ."  Unfortunately, its not being webcast.  The Subcommittee is chaired by Jerrold Nadler of New York. ...
  12 hours ago

• Texas jurors sent only 8 murderers to death row in 2009

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 504
  An Austin Statesman report about Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmbergs decision to seek the death penalty in the sexual assault and murder of an LBJ High School student included this analysis of the Travis DAs track record on capital cases over the last ten years: Prosecutors in Travis County have announced their ...
  12 hours ago

• Kenneth Biros Executed by New Single Injection Method

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 672
  A previously blocked execution for Biros set for December 8, 2009 went forward due to a change in Ohios lethal injection policies. Convicted killer Kenneth Biros died at 11:47 a.m. at the state death house in Lucasville, Ohio. Biros was the first person in the U.S. executed using a single injection of thiopental ...
  12 hours ago

• Biros Executed in Ohio Using 1-Drug Lethal Injection

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The initial AP report is, " Ohio executes inmate with 1-drug lethal injection ." Ohio has executed a convicted killer through thefirst U.S. lethal injection using a single drug, a longer butsupposedly less painful method than previous executions with threedrugs. Kenneth Biros (BY-rohs) waspronounced dead at 11:47 ...
  13 hours ago

• Still awaiting word Reports on Ohios success with one-drug lethal injection protocol

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 471
  Ohio was scheduled to go forward with its first execution using its new on-drug protocol this morning at 10am.  But as this AP article notes , one final appeal pushed the scheduled execution time to 11am.  But now the noon hour approaches, and I still await a report that the execution was completed.  And now I ...
  13 hours ago

• Ohio to execute convicted killer using new single injection method

  
  Plunderbund — Authority: 587
  Kenneth Biros is to be put to death today using a new single injection method. The new method was developed after the botched execution of Romell Broom in September. I post this not to get in to any big debate about the death penalty. I’m against it. I understand this to [...]
  14 hours ago

• Beard v. Kindler Decided

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The Supreme Court has ruled in the unusual Pennsylvania case.  The AP reports, " Supreme Court tells lower courts to reconsider death penalty for Kindler ," via the Los Angeles Times. The Supreme Court will let lower courts consider reinstating a deathsentence for a convicted murderer who twice escaped from prison ...
  14 hours ago

• Michigan and the Death Penalty

  
  Flint Expatriates — Authority: 131
  Death penalty statutes in the United States (Click on map to enlarge) Color key: No current death penalty statute Statute or method declared unconstitutional Not applied since 1976 Has performed execution since 1976 I was talking to a native Californian the other day about ...
  15 hours ago

• Supreme Court Wont Block 1st US 1-Drug Execution

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the breaking news bulletin from the Associated Press.  Its written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and datelined Lucasville, Ohio.  LINK The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block theexecution of an Ohio condemned killer who would become the first personin the U.S. to die by lethal injection with a single drug ...
  15 hours ago

• With New Method, Ohio Resumes Executions

  
  The Lede — Authority: 688
  On Tuesday morning the state of Ohio plans to execute a convicted murderer using a new form of lethal injection that relies on a single drug, three months after a failed execution prompted officials to revise the way the state administers the death penalty.
  16 hours ago

• Huckabee On The Daily Show Tonight

  
  Old & N the Way — Authority: 107
  Itll be interesting to see what if anything, is said about Huckabees commuting a 108 year sentence on Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons killed four police officers in Washington on 11/29 and was himself killed by police several days later. Huckabee caught a fair degree of grief from both the left and right for his actions ...
  17 hours ago

• Lawyers fight to halt Ohio execution condemned as human experimentation

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 457
  Under the Nuremberg Code, which stemmed from Nazi medical experiments, doctors must abide by strict rules relating to human experimentation, including that any test must be voluntary and for the social good. But executions are not covered by the code. Brian Evans, a campaigner against the death penalty with Amnesty ...
  18 hours ago

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