Florida‘s governor wants the president of Florida AM University suspended amid multiple investigations spurred by a drum major’s death. Republican Rick Scott called the chairman of the FAMU board on Thursday and asked him to suspend James Ammons immediately. The board met last week and discussed suspending Ammons, but instead voted to publicly reprimand him. [...]
Tag: death
December 16, 2011
December 15, 2011
Death penalty declines in US as disapproval grows
Mounting opposition to the death penalty in America is starting to take effect, with the number of executions as well as newly imposed death sentences falling to record low levels in 2011. As the year draws to a close, the annual review by the authoritative Death Penalty Information Centre points to an ongoing withering of [...]
December 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
Letters: Abuses in Panama
Activists hope new light may be shed on unresolved human rights abuses now that ex-general Manuel Noriega has been returned to Panama (Report, 12 December). But who is going to call the US to account for the atrocities it committed? In 1989, President Bush Sr ordered an invasion of Panama to capture Noriega, and thousands [...]
December 14, 2011
Diplomats Distressed About Syrian Unrest
Several U.N. Security Council members say they are distressed by information presented at a meeting by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights that the death toll from unrest in Syria has surpassed 5,000. The U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative, Rosemary DiCarlo, said the human rights crisis in Syria is a threat to international peace and [...]
December 14, 2011
Syrian Defectors Kill 7 Security Force Members in Revenge Attack
Rights activists say Syrian army defectors killed seven government security force members while ambushing a patrol following an army raid that cost 11 civilian lives earlier Tuesday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says both incidents took place in Idlib province, a restive area that borders Turkey. The observatory and other groups report that [...]
December 13, 2011
UN Says Syria Crackdown Death Toll Exceeds 5,000
The United Nations says the death toll from months of unrest in Syria has now surpassed 5,000 people. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday her office has received credible reports from a variety of sources that indicate the death toll since the unrest began in March “probably exceeds 5,000.” She released the statement [...]
December 12, 2011
Syrians to Vote in Local Elections
Syrians are due to vote in municipal elections Monday, the first test of reforms promised by President Bashar al-Assad’s government following protests against his rule. The elections cover more than 17,000 seats on local councils across the country’s 14 provinces. The government has called for a large voter turnout. The poll comes a day after [...]
December 11, 2011
Man, myth and the death penalty
9 December 2011 Last updated at 23:02 GMT By Kate Dailey BBC News Magazine Across the world, supporters protested to free Mr Abu-Jamal Almost 30 years after his conviction for killing a police officer, Mumia Abu-Jamal has had his sentence revised and will no longer be a death-row inmate. For many Abu-Jamal’s case was less [...]
December 11, 2011
Troy Davis remembered by Antone De’Jaun Correia
My uncle, Troy Davis, was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to death in 1991, three years before I was born. He was in jail my whole life, but I knew him very well. I visited him with my mother – his sister – on death row in the Georgia state prison every other week until [...]
December 11, 2011
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe Announces 2012 Election Bid
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Saturday he will not retire, but instead will lead his Zanu-PF party in elections that he announced will take place early next year. The 87 year-old president appeared fit after a four day annual conference of Zanu-PF where his leadership of the party was reconfirmed. As leader of the party, [...]
December 10, 2011
Death for US home invasion killer
9 December 2011 Last updated at 23:58 GMT Komisarjevsky’s defence lawyer said his client was “very accepting” of the sentence A Connecticut jury has condemned a second man to death for the murder of a woman and her two daughters in a grisly home invasion. The jury deliberated over for five days before delivering the [...]
December 10, 2011
Connecticut home invasion: second man sentenced to death
A jury condemned a man to death Friday for raping and strangling a woman and killing her two daughters in an attack that led to the defeat of a bill to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut and was compared to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Joshua Komisarjevsky will join his accomplice Steven Hayes on [...]
December 9, 2011
Hospital Fire Kills Scores in Eastern India
The death toll from a fire that engulfed a private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata has risen to 89. Authorities say the blaze swept through the AMRI Hospital early Friday in the capital of West Bengal state. Local television channels showed patients being rolled out on stretchers and distraught relatives waiting outside [...]