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- "'Death'
Card Found at Sniper Scene." ... "Investigators searching
for a sniper terrorizing the Washington suburbs found a tarot card with
the words, "Dear policeman, I am God," near a bullet casing outside the
school where a 13-year-old boy was critically wounded, a source familiar
with the investigation confirmed Wednesday." -By David
Dishneau -AP
via -Seattle-PI.com.NWsource
- "At
the Heart of Rwanda's Horror: General's History
Offers Clues to the Roots of Genocide." ... "... Augustin Bizimungu, former
chief of staff of the Rwandan army, sits with 53 others in a detention
center in Arusha, Tanzania, awaiting trial by the U.N.-mandated International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is accused of being an architect of the
state-sponsored genocide that killed more than 800,000 people." ... "Over
100 days in 1994, after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana,
Rwanda's Hutu majority carried out the organized slaughter of the country's
Tutsi minority and Hutus who sympathized with them." -By
Emily Wax -WashingtonPost
- "Illinois
governor may commute death sentences." ... "Gov.
George Ryan is considering commuting every death row inmate's sentence
to life in prison...." ... "The governor suspended executions in January
2000 after a string of death row inmates were released."
-AP via -CNN
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"Australia
pressures Vietnam over death sentence: The Australian
government will push to have a death sentence commuted for a woman found
guilty of drug trafficking in Vietnam." ... "Australia abolished the death
penalty for all crimes in 1985, with the last person to be executed, Ronald
Ryan, hanged in 1967." -By Grant Holloway
-CNN /Asia
- "Justices:
Re-Examine Teen Executions." ... "In an unusual public
statement about the death penalty, three Supreme Court justices said the
time is right to consider abolishing capital punishment for killers who
committed their crimes as minors." ... "Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer could not persuade the rest of the court
to delay Wednesday's execution of a Texas inmate for a killing committed
when he was 17." -By Anne Gearan
-AP via
-ChicagoTribune
- "Texan
executed for murder committed at age 17." ... "The
case drew criticism from anti-death penalty groups and others opposed to
the execution of juvenile offenders." ... "Toronto Patterson, 24, was condemned
for killing his 3-year-old cousin Ollie Brewer while stealing car wheels
from his great-aunt's Dallas home on June 6, 1995."
-Reuters via -CNN
- "Death
penalty for juveniles under scrutiny: Texas
is scheduled to execute the third person in four months for a crime committed
under age 18." ... "... two-thirds of US juvenile offenders put to death
in the past decade have been in Texas, adding a new dimension to debate
over the Lone Star State's hard-line tradition of capital punishment."
... "The US has a long history of executing murderers who commit their
crimes under the age of 18. Since 1642, an estimated 364 juvenile offenders
have been put to death by states and the federal government." -By
Kris Axtman -CSMonitor/buy
- "[Illinois
Governor] Ryan making end run on death penalty:
Veto could set up vote in legislature." ... "Attempting to put death penalty
reform on the General Assembly's fall agenda, Gov. George Ryan Friday altered
a bill to include a provision that would prohibit capital punishment in
cases where conviction rests solely on a single eyewitness, accomplice
or jailhouse snitch." ... "The veto is the governor's latest attempt to
focus lawmakers' attention on an issue near to his heart. In the two years
since he declared a moratorium on executions in Illinois and appointed
a panel of experts to review the state's capital justice system, Ryan has
repeatedly urged the General Assembly to undertake serious reform." -By
Christi Parsons
-ChicagoTribune
- "[Mexican
President Vicente] Fox cancels meeting with Bush to protest execution."
... "Fox canceled an Aug. 26-28 visit to four Texas cities and to Bush's
ranch to protest the state's execution Wednesday of convicted police killer
Javier Suarez Medina. Fox says Suarez is a Mexican national. Texas officials
said it was unclear on which side of the border Suarez was born." ... "Of
the more than 200 convicted killers executed in Texas since capital punishment
resumed in 1982, over 130 were put to death while Bush was governor."
-AP via -USATODAY
- "Full
'Dr. Death' horror revealed." ... "Relatives of patients
killed by Dr. Harold Shipman say they have been "vindicated" in their struggle
to reveal him as the UK's worst serial killer." ... "His first victims
tended to be terminally ill, but then he moved on to murder patients that
simply irritated him. He himself has never admitted guilt or his thinking
behind the deaths." -CNN
- "Christian
sentenced to death for remarks about Islam." ...
"A Pakistani Christian who claimed he was Jesus Christ and called Islam
a fake religion was convicted of blasphemy on Thursday and sentenced to
death by hanging, court officials said." -AP
via -AJC
Osama
bin Laden - "Trying
Al Qaeda: US vs. Europe: Videotape aired yesterday
bolsters case on bin Laden." ... "If Osama bin Laden wants to escape death,
he has one sure fire route to safety: find his way to Europe and hand himself
in." -By Peter Ford -CSMonitor/buy
Afghanistan
- "Concern
over Afghan massacre reports." -BBC
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