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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Council Of Europe 'debates' the death penalty



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhSXewywMnA

You can also look at the comments by people on YouTube.

If you watch this video, you will call it a criminal right support, not even a debate. Please see these minutes and seconds:

0:50 = Also want to abolish LWOP

4:40 = Not deterring?

5:55 = 20 years enough

8:10 = Excuse to commit crime

13:10 = victims are not important

14:00 = Overcrowding of prison

14:40 = justice has a price tag

17:05 = inhumane

19:05 = Abortion is OK but killing a murderer is wrong
22:50 = No democracy

23:35 = EU does not listen to majority, at least USA does!

24:30 = Killing murderers solve nothing, does locking them up solve anything?

27:00 = Insult to the Justice Three: USA, Japan and Singapore

27:30 = will the world abolish it?'

They are against the death penalty because they want to protect criminals and not a word for the victims and their families.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Illinois Death Row before 9 March 2011



Local men on death row or facing death penalty

By Matt Hanley
mhanley@stmedianetwork.com
Last Modified: Mar 10, 2011 06:22PM


Three men with local connections were on death row before Gov. Quinn’s Wednesday decision to abolish the death penalty.

Eric Hanson
Hanson, 34, of Naperville, was sentenced to death by a DuPage County jury after he was convicted of the 2005 quadruple murders of his parents, sister and brother-in-law in their homes in Naperville and Aurora. Quinn’s decision means Hanson is now sentenced to life in prison.

Ed Tenney
Tenney, 51, of Aurora, was sentenced to death in DuPage County in 2010, after he was convicted of the 1992 murder of Aurora resident Jerry Weber during a robbery that netted $6. Tenney was already serving life sentences for the 1993 murders of two Aurora Township women, Felton Road neighbors Virginia Johannessen and Jill Oberweis.
Tenney’s sentence for Weber’s death is now life in prison.

Brian Dugan
Dugan, 54, of Aurora, was sentenced to death in DuPage County in 2009, after he pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, who was abducted from her Naperville home in 1983. Dugan is already serving two life sentences for the murders of 27-year-old nurse Donna Schnorr of Geneva and 7-year-old Melissa Ackermann of Somonauk. Dugan pleaded guilty to both those murders in the 1980s. He is now serving three life sentences.

Several other local men would be facing the death penalty if convicted of murder.


Theddias LeSure

LeSure, 23, of Montgomery, is charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated arson. Prosecutors said LeSure poured gasoline on his cousin, Maurice Vaughn, 32, then set him on fire in June of 2009. The fire spread and LeSure’s brother, Matthew LeSure, 26, also died in the fire, from smoke inhalation.

LeSure has been sent for mental health treatment and will be called back to court within a year to see if he is fit to stand trial. The maximum penalty he will now face is life in prison.

Christopher Vaughn
Vaughn, 36, of Oswego, is accused of killing his wife and three children in June 2007.
State Police found their bodies inside the family’s SUV while it was parked on an Interstate 55 frontage road in Will County. Vaughn’s wife, Kimberly, 34, and children Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, had been shot to death as they sat in the car. The maximum penalty he now will face is life in prison.

Hector Mauricio
Mauricio, 24, of Aurora, was convicted of the May 2007 murder of 83-year-old Aurora Township World War II veteran Roscoe Ebey, who was killed during a botched robbery. Due to Ebey’s age, Mauricio was eligible for death. After the state Senate passed the repeal of the death penalty, prosecutors asked the judge to delay sentencing until after Quinn made a decision. A judge ruled Mauricio eligible for death due to Ebey’s age. He could be sentenced March 23. Although the death penalty ban does not go into affect until July 1, Quinn promised to commute any death sentences imposed before July.

Aurelio Montano
Montano, 55, of Aurora, is charged in the 1990 death of his wife, Guadalupe Maria Montano, whose body has not been found. Montano is already serving life in prison for ordering the murders of a man and woman in July 1996. He faces up to life in prison. His next court appearance is set for Friday.

Jaime Diaz
Diaz, 33, formerly of Aurora, is charged with shooting Brendon Anderson of Geneva and Elias Calcano of Aurora in 1998. The bodies of the men, both 21, were found in an Aurora alley doused in gasoline. He could be sentenced to life in prison. His next court appearance is set for March 31.

Darren Denson
Denson, 39, formerly of Chicago, is charged in the 2003 murder of Kyle Juggins.
Juggins was killed during an armed robbery home invasion on Elgin’s west side. Denson is already serving a 50-year sentence in Wisconsin for the murder of John Bagin of Milwaukee. He is scheduled to be in court Friday.

Frank Hill
Hill, 33, of Gilberts, is accused of murdering his estranged girlfriend, Karyn Pearson, in a January 2007 fire that left the 27-year-old woman’s body burned beyond recognition in her Gilberts townhome. He is scheduled to be in court Friday.

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/4223896-418/local-men-on-death-row-or-facing-death-penalty.html

Friday, March 11, 2011

Death Penalty State-by-State



William Browning William Browning Wed Mar 9, 7:42 pm ET

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law abolishing the death penalty in his state today. In doing so, he commuted the death sentences of 15 people and gave them life without the possibility of parole.

Here's a brief summary of states that have the death penalty and those that disallow death sentences.

States Allowing the Death Penalty

Currently, there are 34 states with a death penalty, according to Amnesty International. Methods of executions in most states are by lethal injection, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Alabama: Reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Prisoners can choose to be electrocuted or have a lethal injection. Currently there are 201 people on death row.

Arizona: Started death penalties in 1973. Inmates can die by lethal injection or lethal gas. Prisoners have been executed 24 times since 1973 with eight exonerations.

Arkansas: Re-enacted death penalty in 1973. Lethal injection and electrocution are the methods involved in executing prisoners in Arkansas.

California: Has had the death penalty since 1974. Since its reinstatement, 13 people have died either by lethal injection or lethal gas.

Colorado: Death penalty reinstated in 1975. Only one person has died from lethal injection since the death penalty was put back on the books.

Connecticut: Executions reinstated in 1973. One person has died of lethal injection since that time.

Delaware: Re-enacted death penalty in 1974. Delaware is one of few states that allow hanging as a method of execution, lethal injection being the other.

Florida: Has had a death penalty since 1972. In nearly 40 years, 69 people have been put to death and 23 have been exonerated. Lethal injection and electrocution are the methods used in Florida.

Georgia: Death penalty sentences resumed in 1973. Lethal injection has killed 49 inmates since then.

Idaho: Has instituted a death penalty since 1973. Only one person has died by lethal injection in that time frame.

Indiana: Has been in the court system since 1973. Lethal injection is the method used.

Kansas: Reinstated the death penalty in 1994. Lethal injection is the only method of execution although no one has been put to death since that time.

Kentucky: Death penalty has been in place since 1975. Lethal injection and electrocution are the methods used in Kentucky.

Louisiana: Death penalty has been around since 1973. Lethal injection has been the method of choice in the state.

Maryland:
Has had death penalty cases since 1975. Lethal gas or lethal injection are the methods of execution.

Mississippi: Death penalty has been around since 1974. Lethal injection and lethal gas have executed 13 people in that time.

Missouri: Has had the death penalty since 1975. Lethal injection and lethal gas are the methods used with 68 people dying since the law was reinstated.

Montana: Reinstated the death penalty in 1974. Only three people have died from lethal injection since then.

Nebraska: Re-enacted death penalty in 1973. Lethal injection is the only method to carry out the sentence.

Nevada: Death penalty on the books since 1973. Lethal injections are the prescribed method in Nevada.

New Hampshire: Has had the death penalty since 1991. Is one of few states that still allows hanging as a method of death; lethal injection is the other.

North Carolina: Death penalty on the books since 1977. Lethal injection is the only method by which inmates die.

Ohio: Death penalty re-enacted in 1974. Lethal injection is the cause of death in these cases.

Oklahoma: Death penalty cases reinstated in 1973. There are three methods by which prisoners can die: lethal injection, electrocution and firing squad.


Oregon:
Has had the death penalty since 1978. Lethal injection is the prescribed method in death penalty cases.

Pennsylvania: Reinstated death penalty in 1974. Lethal injection has put to death only three people in that time.

South Carolina: Has had the death penalty since 1969, the longest continuous time of any state. Electrocution and lethal injection are the ways by which prisoners can die.

South Dakota: Reinstated death penalty in 1979. Lethal injection has killed only one prisoner in over 30 years.

Tennessee: Death penalty on the books since 1974. Electrocution and lethal injection are the only ways to die.

Texas: Death penalty reinstated in 1979. Lethal injection has put to death a record 466 inmates in that time, the most of any state in the union.

Utah: Has had the death penalty since 1973. Lethal injection and firing squad are the methods of death in Utah.

Virginia: Reinstated the death penalty in 1975. Electrocution and lethal injection are the methods used to put inmates to death.

Washington: The state of Washington re-enacted the death penalty in 1975. Lethal injection and hanging are the methods used.

Wyoming: Has had the death penalty since 1977. Lethal gas and lethal injection are the prescribed methods to carry out sentencing.

States Banning the Death Penalty

States without the death penalty number 16 total counting Illinois' recent decision. All of these states have had the death penalty at one time in the past.

Alaska: Banned the death penalty in 1957 two years before it became a state. Alaska executed 12 people before that time.

Hawaii: Banned executions in 1957, also two years before achieving statehood.

Illinois: Abolished the death penalty in 2011 after an 11-year moratorium.

Iowa: Banned the death penalty in 1965. As many as 45 people were executed before then.

Maine: Disallowed the death penalty in 1887, the third-longest ban in the country. Because Maine is an older state, 21 people were executed before that point.

Massachusetts: Banned the death penalty in 1984. Only three people were executed from 1973 until 1984.

Michigan: Hasn't had a death penalty since 1846, the longest of any state. Before the ban was in place, 13 people were executed.

Minnesota: Banned the death penalty in 1911. There were 66 recorded executions previously.

New Jersey: Stopped having death penalty sentences in 2007. Before 1976, New Jersey had executed 361 people.

New Mexico: Abolished the death penalty in 2009, but only for new cases. Two men remain on death row.

New York: State courts banned executions in 2007. Before 1976, over 1,100 people were sentenced to die but none since then.

North Dakota: Banned the death penalty in 1973 with the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Only eight people were executed previously.

Rhode Island: Abolished executions in 1972 with the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Rhode Island had the death penalty for 100 years and executed 52 people.

Vermont: Officially disallowed the death penalty in 1987, but the ban was effective since 1965 when capital punishment was outlawed. In the time executions were allowed, 26 prisoners died.

Washington, D.C.: Abolished the death penalty in 1972 with the Supreme Court decision, followed by a vote of the D.C. Council in 1981. Until the ban, 118 people were executed as prisoners.

West Virginia: Abolished the death penalty in 1965. Before that time, 155 people were put to death under the law.

Wisconsin: Banned executing prisoners in 1853, the second longest of any state. Only one prisoner has been executed in the state, the lowest in the union.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110310/tr_ac/8029962_death_penalty_statebystate

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Illinois executions from 1977 to 2000

These 12 executions were carried out from the time Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977 until then-Gov. George Ryan established a moratorium on the death penalty in 2000. Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill Wednesday to abolish the death penalty in Illinois.

Executions:

-- Charles Walker, 50, executed Sept. 12, 1990, for the 1983 murders of Kevin Paule, 21, and Sharon Winker, 25, of Mascoutah.

-- John Wayne Gacy, 52, executed May 10, 1994, for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

-- James Free, 41, executed March 22, 1995, for the April 24, 1978, murder of Bonnie Serpico, 34, of Elmhurst.

-- Hernando Williams, 40, executed March 22, 1995, for the April 1, 1978, murder of Linda Goldstone, 29, of Chicago.

-- Girvies Davis, 37, executed May 17, 1995, for the Dec. 22, 1978, murder of Charles Biebel, 89, of Belleville.

-- Charles Albanese, 58, executed Sept. 20, 1995, for the 1980 murders of his mother-in-law, Marion Mueller, 69; and his wife's grandmother, Mary Lambert, 89; and the 1981 murder of his father, Michael J. Albanese, 69.

-- George Del Vecchio, 47, executed Nov. 22, 1995, for the Dec. 22, 1977, murder of 6-year-old Tony Canzoneri of Chicago.

-- Raymond Lee Stewart, 44, executed Sept. 18 1996, for a week-long shooting spree in 1981 in which six people were killed.

-- Walter Stewart, 42, executed Nov. 19, 1997, for murdering two men and wounding a woman in a Berwyn jewelry store in 1980.

-- Durlynn Eddmonds, 45, executed Nov. 19, 1997, for raping and smothering a 9-year-old boy in 1977.

-- Lloyd Wayne Hampton, 44, executed Jan. 21, 1998, for torturing and killing 69-year-old Roy "Jasper" Pendleton of Troy in 1990.

-- Andrew Kokoraleis, 35, executed on March 17, 1999 for mutilating and murdering 21-year-old Lorraine Borowski.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Death Row Convicts in Dubai [as of 11 March 2010]


Status of the death row cases

* By Salam Al Amir and Sharmila Dhal, Staff Reporter and Senior Reporter
* Published: 00:00 March 11, 2010
* XPRESS

Executions suspended pending Ruler's approval:

Paul George Nadar (64, Indian), since 1986 for premeditated murder following criminal arson in which two women and seven children died.

Ahmad Mohammad Jasem (41, Iranian), since 1988 for premeditated murder. He was ordered to pay Dh200,000 blood money to the family of the deceased.

Joseph Simon Silvestre (41, Indian), since 1990 for premeditated murder.

Munawar Dost Mohammad (40, Pakistani), since 1999 for premeditated murder after he, assisted by his brother and a third convict, killed an Omani national and travelled to Oman to burn the body and destroy evidence.

Anil Motyati Adho (38, Indian), since 1999 for premeditated murder after he stalked his victim to rob him. Also accused of multiple thefts.

Natal Komowat (42, Indian), since 1999 for theft and intentional murder as well as hiding the dead body of his victim.

Mohammad Rida Ali (39, Iranian), since 2000 for premeditated murder of his Azerbaijani girlfriend. He turned himself in to police.

Rustom Abdullah Akbari (39, Afghan), since 2000 for stabbing a woman in her 40s to death in a contract killing.

Mohammad Anwar Gulam (39), Nazim Hussain (42), Ashiq Hussain (41), Mohammad Amjad, (52), (all Pakistani),
since 2002 for premeditated murder and multiple thefts. Amjad was also charged with criminal complicity. They used ropes to tie down the victim before killing him.

Sergeh Alexander Vitch (32, Russian) and Sifred Andrivitch (36, Ukrainian), since 2002 for premeditated murders. Sergeh was accused of forced sex and theft, while Sifred was accused of thefts.

Karan Singh, (37), Manouj Muda (40) (Indian), Amir Bahadur (34, Nepali), since 2003 for premeditated murder of a 47-year-old Indian man. Bahadur was found guilty of criminal complicity.

Shai Wi, Kho Mij Ji (both 51, Chinese), since 2005 for kidnapping a 48-year-old Chinese woman who worked as a salesperson.

In Appeals Court:

A death sentence issued by the Court of First Instance is appealed by force of law even if the defence lawyer of the convict does not apply for appeal, according to article 230 under the Criminal Procedure Law:

M.F.N. (27, Iranian) in 2005 for killing an Iranian who took him as his guest in a hotel room on finding that he had no job or shelter. After stabbing the Iranian, M.F.N. also stole some valuables from him and set his body on fire.

A.S.K. (26, Pakistani) in 2009 for killing a 30-year-old Nepalese security guard at a Mazda car showroom, setting his body on fire in an attempt to steal valuables from the showroom.

T.A., S.A.D. (both 23, Indian) in January 2010 for stalking a 33-year-old Indian and killing him at the airport parking lot.

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/status-of-the-death-row-cases-1.595150