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23 May 2007

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USA (Arizona): Further information on death penalty: Robert ...
23 May 2007

Robert Comer was executed on 22 May in Arizona. He had been sentenced to death for murder in 1988. He was also convicted of kidnapping, assault and sexual assault ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/091/2007

USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern: Cathy Lynn Henderson ...
18 May 2007

Cathy Henderson is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 13 June. She was sentenced to death in May 1995 for the murder of a three-and-a-half-month-old baby, Brandon ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/090/2007

USA: Prisoner-assisted homicide - more 'volunteer' executions loom
17 May 2007

Robert Comer, Christopher Newton and Elijah Page are assisting their government in its efforts to kill them. They have given up their appeals and are "volunteering ...

Report       AMR 51/087/2007

USA: Death and democracy
10 May 2007

On 9th May 2007, Philip Ray Workman was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee's execution chamber. He had been on death row for the past 25 years. Workman's case ...

Report       AMR 51/084/2007

USA (Arizona): Death penalty: Robert Charles Comer (m)
10 May 2007

Robert Comer, aged 50, is scheduled to be executed in Arizona on 22 May. He has been on death row for nearly 20 years. He has given up his appeals. An execution ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/089/2007

USA [Tennessee]: Further information on death penalty / Legal ...
9 May 2007

Philip Workman, aged 53, was executed by lethal injection in Tennessee in the early hours of 9 May despite evidence that a key state witness lied at his trial and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/088/2007

USA (Nebraska): Further information on death penalty / Legal ...
4 May 2007

On 2 May, the Nebraska Supreme Court blocked the execution of Carey Moore, who had been due to be put to death in the electric chair on 8 May. He was sentenced ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/085/2007

USA (Indiana): Further information on death penalty / Legal ...
4 May 2007

David Woods, aged 42, was executed in Indiana on 4 May. He had been sentenced to death in 1985 for the murder of Juan Placencia in 1984. David Woods, who was 19 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/086/2007