death penalty incidents

As I have stated previously, I am strictly against the death penalty, but I guess this provides an end to a very dark situation. Japan executes sarin gas attack cult leader Shoko Asahara and six members

Today, I switched over to MSNBC in my car for a little while, via Sirius. Not my usual fare, but sometimes listenable, though sometimes not. In any case there was a story about two inmates scheduled for execution receiving stays. The issue was the source and quality of the drugs used for...

Japan has released a 78-year-old man who spent 48 years on DEATH ROW on trumped-up charges. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/27/japan-to-free-worlds-longest-serving-death-row-inmate-after-more-than-40-years/?tid=hp_mm

This looks absolutely outrageous to me. Whatever most of us feel about the Muslim Brotherhood, sentencing 529 of its followers to death over a riot in which a police officer was killed looks like the kind of thing a fascist government would do. Link

The big problem for me is the defence of I was forced to do it by bad people. In this most recent case you have a middle aged woman who claims she had to take the drugs into Bali in a suitcase as she was forced to. Other members of the drugs ring she was in have been given lesser sentences and...

From the AP: Full article: Associated Press