USA: Death penalty / Legal concern, Melvin Edison Hale, white, aged 74.

Index Number: AMR 51/001/2002
Date Published: 8 January 2002
Categories: Americas, USA

Melvin Hale, aged 74, is facing a capital trial in Texas. The Hays County prosecution is intending to seek the death penalty against him for the murder of a police officer committed in 2000.