Tommy Zeigler (see our urgent appeal) was granted a DNA testing. 

Belarus Executioner Accuses President of Murder. 

James Elledge, 58 anni, è stato messo a morte tramite iniezione letale. 

NOW Helps Mom Charged in Drownings (New York Times). 

Ronald Wayne Frye asks for clemency: His Lawyer Drank Heavily during trial. 

Two executions: Clifton White in North Carolina (Aug. 24th); Jeffery Doughtie in Texas (Aug. 16th).

Death Row Prisoner Seeks New Trial. 

Death Row Inmate Ordered Released.  

Eyes Are on Justice Dept. in Rhode Island. 

Illinois Governor Vetoes Death Penalty Expansion 

State's chief justice calls for reform in death penalty defense system.

Oklahoma Governor Grants Temporary Reprieve for Mexican National. 

 Beazkey - Texas Appeals Court Stays Execution of Teen Killer. 

Death penalty more likely if victim is white. 

Death Penalty Denied in Texas Sleeping Lawyer Case. 

Journalism Students Help Missouri Death Row Inmate Get New Trial. 

Why Evolving International Standards May Have Rendered the Death Penalty Unconstitutional (art. By AKHIL REED AMAR, teacher of Constitutionale Law at Yale Univ.). 

Mack Oran Hill, 47, was executed by lethal injection. 

Witness to Executions. 

Leading human rights campaigner Livingstone Sewanyana on Monday called for the Ugandan government to abolish the death penalty. 

Death Penalty Study a Hot Topic. The author of a study on Nebraska's death penalty said that top state officials have taken his work  to support their pro-death penalty views. 

Do Killers Deserve a Finer Burial? (The Oklahoman). 

Tainted Justice (N.Y.T.). 

That 24 foreign and local staff from an international aid agency were safe after being arrested for propagating Christianity, a crime punishable by dea. 

The Death Penalty Moratorium: cause and effect: the intervention of Mario Marazziti (Sant'Egidio Community) at ABA Annual meeting in Chicago. 

Gov. Mike Easley signed: N.C. Bans Execution of Retarded. 

Talk of Vengeance at Arraignment in Murders (N.Y.T.) 

ABA Asks Congress for Moratorium on Executions. 

Neb. Changes Death Penalty Method: three-judge panels can no longer impose the death penalty without a unanimous vote. 

Court May Set Death Penalty Limits.