THOUSANDS of Australian teenagers planning to visit Bali for schoolies week have been warned to change their plans after Indonesia announced it would execute the Bali bombers. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advised anyone thinking of travelling to Indonesia to "reconsider" travel plans "due to the very high threat of terrorist attack". The […]
Bali bombers to face firing squad early next month
he three militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bomb attacks will be executed in early November, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) announced Friday. "Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra have exhausted all legal avenues, and the necessary formal and material requirements (for the executions to proceed) have all been fulfilled," AGO […]
LIFE AND DEATH IN LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI
AN OTHER STORY It was October 1950. I was riding Little Putt, my Servicycle, northwards from New Orleans. I came to a Mississippi town called Laurel. I’d read about Laurel. A black man had been tried there, accused of raping a white woman. Condemned to death. I didn’t know much more, but […]
Protection of Moral Fiber
Protection of Moral Fiber “Libel is a basis of the protection of our character, because the pain of losing character will linger forever”, a untainted statement by a certain honorable Attorney of the Political Science Department College of Liberal Arts on his forum given to selected Mass Communication students of the University of Baguio, […]
Verla Sue Holland: Judge-Lawyer Romance Scandal
Verla Sue Holland, a Texas judge, sentenced Charles Dean Hood to be executed after he was convicted of a double homicide in 1990. Hood was scheduled to be executed this week but has since received a stay of execution since rumors have surfaced that Verla Sue Holland was having a romantic affair with the case’s […]
Richard Cooey, Too Fat for Lethal Injection
Richard Cooey is on death row in Ohio for raping and murdering two women in 1986. Cooey and his lawyer filed a lawsuit to fight his October 14 execution on the basis that he is too fat for a lethal injection to work properly. Richard Cooey, 5’7" and 267 pounds, claims that his executioners will […]