Texas Retooling Criminal Justice.

Moratorium of executions could end by 2002, says Putin. Council of Europe replies.

Amnesty International Raps U.S. on Death Penalty. 

Chong, one man on death row in Hawaii: I Don't Deserve The Death Penalty. 

Turkey's Choice: European Union or the Death Penalty.  

Amnesty calls China's Jiang rights "scoundrel.

Vincent Allen Johnson, 42, was executed by lethal injection

A teen ager was executed.  

Mc Weigh asks for a stay.  

3 Saudis executed  

Bisho of Arlington (VA)  Loverde speaks out against deaht penalty.  

CACP (Catholic Against Capital Punishment): The McVeigh execution: some reflections.  

Candidate Garcia, if becomes President will introduce capital punishment for corrupt public officals  

Texas may ban executing retarded

Rwandan Court Sentences 10 to Death

Gary Wayne Drinkard, 45,  5 5 years spent on death row, was set free  after a jury found him innocent

Abdullah Hameen, 37, was executed by lethal injection.  

Ashcroft Vows No Delay in McVeigh's Execution

When The Evidence Lies (Time).

Mo. Convict Executed for 1987 Death. 

Jim Willett's story, sadly famous as "King of death row". He participated in the execution of 89 people in 3 years. 

Why the Death Penalty Should Be Killed.An article published on the Black Press-USA. 

Woman convicted of  being a porno-actress,  was stoned to death. 

Prison-warder who killed an inmate on death row, was arrested 

Iran Hangs Ex-Air Force Officer for Spying for U.S  

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a new Criminal Code that formally abolished the  death penalty 

Mc Weigh’s case and other 3,500 on death row 

George Tenet, Director of CIA, opposes to Hanssen’s execution 

29 executions in one day  

Death sentence overturned

15 men convicted of robbery, were executed 

Catholic Prelates Press Effort Against Execution (New York Times) 

USA & Death Penalty: Law of retaliation shows its anachronism. (La Stampa) 

Faith fuels drive to end death penalty. Growing opposition to the death penalty reflects a new activism by many religious communities. (Indianapolis Star)

Sunday, May 27th at Città della Pieve the Rally "Fitness for life", another initiative to back the campaign of Sant'Egidio, against the death penalty. 

Seven Saudis Beheaded

China's Execution Rate Rises. 

“Time to abolish death penalty”, says the Justice Minister 

Moratorium and Legislation News from around the Nation 

McVeigh Errors Raise Doubts About Other Capital Cases

Accused Spy Hanssen Could Face Death Penalty

A Perfect Killing? McVeigh Proves Why We Need a Moratorium on the Death Penalty (the American Prospect.

Texas House Rejects Parole Option. 

Europe's View of the Death Penalty (New York Times)

A national advocacy organization working for the abolition of the death penalty in the U.S: Catholics' growing understanding of Church views on death penalty …"" 

Conservatives urged to rethink the death penalty, just after Mc Weigh’s case. 

Ohio Man Spared Execution for Second Time in Month 

Death Row Inmate to Be Set Free. 

Ohio Man Spared Execution for Second Time in Month 

Mental illness defense can't save triple murderer: the case of dayva Cross 

Killing McVeigh teaches us nothing. It doesn't teach him a lesson…(Time) 

Memoirs of a retired executioner in Texas: “I am sorry, we killed also some innocent people!”) 

Three men executed by Firing Squad.

Bruno Haller Segretary General, Council of Europe parlamentary assembly writes to New York Times: Europe's view of the death penalty 

According to Washington Post 'Eye for an Eye' Challenges Faithful 

FBI Kept Files From McVeigh's Lawyers: Bush Backs Ashcroft's Delay to June11. 

“I want Mc Weigh to live, even if he killed my daughter”, says the father of a victim..

Only a few years ago, few lost causes seemed quite as irretrievably lost as opposing the death penalty....(An article - New York Times)

Missouri Bill to Ban Execution of Mentally Retarded Passes Legislature; Awaits Governor's Signature. 

Several death row cases come with a twist, in the last weeks, days, hours, minutes. Even last meals don't mean it's over.

The Swedish Presidency of the European Union made a demarche to the U.S. Administration presenting the EU positions of principle on the death penalty.

The Declining Support for Execution.

Cloud of scandal hangs over 12 Death Row cases.

Truth is blurred by witnesses in Death Row cases (An article on "The Chicago Tribune")

2 Pakistani men sentenced to death with drug traffic.

Death penalty and struggle to drug traffic.

Cardinal asks Governor for Death Penalty Break (Source:NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER)  

Some U.S. States Having Doubts on Executions.

U.S. Voted Out of U.N. Rights Group 

Episcopalian prison ministers said the execution made the time ripe for a moratorium on the death penalty.

European Union asks for clemency in favor of a Polish man convicted to death in Illinois.

Death Penalty - It's time for Texas lawmakers to enact reforms.

Warden Who Presides Over Executions Recounts the Process (ABC News).

Audio Tapes of Georgia Executions Air on NPR, ABC-News Nightline, and Pacifica national radio.

Florida Bill Bans Executing Retarded.

The Americans who favor replacing the death penalty with life in prison has been increasing  a lot.

Texas Watch: Texans need death penalty moratorium.

"The Approaching Execution of Timothy McVeigh", a statement presented by Cardinal Roger Mahony,Archbishop of Los Angeleand Cardinal William Keeler Archbishop of Baltimore, United States Catholic Conference. 

Two interventions of Card. Dulles, against death pebalty.

ABC News Poll Finds Drop in Support for Death Penalty and Majority in Favor of Moratorium.

An interview of the Washington Post with Sakae Menda, released after 34 years spent on death row.

As McVeigh's Execution Looms, Death Penalty Foes in Tough Spot.

Fla. Judge Sets Aside Death Sentence of a man scheduled to die the next day.

Sr. Helen Prejean asks and the live-broadcast of  Mc Weigh’s execution.

Lawmakers back off moratorium on death penalty, but it must be considered as a success, anyway.

Marilyn Kay Plantz, 40, was executed by lethal injection