Last week, the attorney for convicted murderer Scott Peterson filed a thick packet of legal briefs calling for an appeal of his death sentence. For many, the heinous killing of Peterson’s wife Laci and unborn child makes him a poster child for the death penalty. Yet Peterson’s appeal, presumably the first of what will be […]
Death penalty: States switching to new drug to execute murderers
Mississippi criminal-justice officials are planning to administer a new drug in executing three men at the end of April, a law enforcement source told the Public Safety Examiner on Wednesday. The state plans to use the powerful sedative pentobarbital a drug used to "put down" large animals. Currently Mississippi uses sodium thiopental to carry out death sentences. Part of the reason for the switch is the belief it is a […]
Taiwan, the highest tax penalty in the world
Taiwan, the highest tax penalty in the world In Taiwan, if you owe tax or have made a false statement or omission, you will receive a sky- high penalty other than any countries in the world. For example, if you have an underpayment with the amount of NT$1,000, the taxman will charge NT$2,000 penalty by […]
Fox Article Reports States Facing Budget Crises Due To Death Penalty Cases
Recently, due to most states still claiming budgetary crises even after the massive stimulus monies which were received by all the states under the Obama Administration and Congress there have been more and more articles directed at Constitutional government duties and provisions which are costing the states and state citizens apparently a bundle. Today a […]
Texas Judge Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional?
There’s a storm brewing in Texas, it appears, over a recent ruling by a state district court judge in Houston on a murder trial. Justice Kevin Fine, a Democrat, made a pre-trial ruling in Texas court that the death penalty was unconstitutional under Texas law. Although his position appears to be not in accordance with the wording of the […]
Ohio Man To Face Death Penalty Tuesday
Jason Getsy 33, convicted of a murder in the 1995 death of a Hubbard, Ohio woman, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Getsy was found guilt of shooting Ann Serafino twice in the head as her son John Serafino was shot […]
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