Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - American support for death penalty falls to 60 percent: Gallup

Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 07:11 PM PDT

American support for death penalty falls to 60 percent: Gallup 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 07:11 PM PDT
By Lisa Maria Garza (Reuters) - Sixty percent of Americans favor capital punishment for convicted murderers, the lowest percentage since 1972, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. At its peak in the mid-1990s, capital punishment support was at 80 percent, the polling group said. "The current era of lower support may be tied to death penalty moratoriums in several states beginning around 2000 after several death-row inmates were later proven innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted," Gallup said. ...
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Support for death penalty lowest in four decades in US 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 03:22 PM PDT
A man wears an anti-death penalty tee-shirt during the 20th annual Starvin' for Justice fast and vigil against the death penalty in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington on June 29, 2013Washington (AFP) - Support for the death penalty is at a four-decade low in the United States, though most Americans -- three out of five -- still favor it, a new Gallup poll out Tuesday found.
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South African white extremist plotters sentenced 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
Afrikaner extremist group Boeremag co-leaders Andre du Toit, left, and his brother Mike du Toit, right, stands in the dock before their sentencing at High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. A South Africa court handed members of a white extremist group sentences ranging from five to 35 years in prison, with years suspended, for various charges including high treason, murder and culpable homicide and conspiring to murder for a thwarted plan to kill Mandela in the country's first post-apartheid treason trial. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — White extremists who set off a series of bombs, plotted to overthrow the South African government and kill Nelson Mandela were given jail terms Tuesday, ending the first major treason trial under post-apartheid laws that many hope will deter future radicals.
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Man found guilty of rape, mutilation that shocked South Africa 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 10:09 AM PDT
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court found a 21-year-old man guilty on Tuesday of the rape, mutilation and murder of a teenager in a case that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest levels of sexual violence. The 17-year-old victim, Anene Booysen, was found at a building site in the town of Bredasdorp, 130 km (80 miles) east of Cape Town, in February with wounds that included a slit from her stomach down to her genitals. Johannes Kana confessed to raping Booysen but denied disembowelling her. Sentencing is expected on Wednesday. ...
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Detroit crime tour tells and sells macabre history 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 09:47 AM PDT
In this Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 photo, Karin Risko, center, tells a ghoulish tale on a Detroit street corner during the DETROIT (AP) — A black-caped woman with a lantern guides more than two dozen people through downtown Detroit as night falls, spinning ghoulish, grisly tales from the gritty city's history.
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Central Bank falls victim to Libya's rampant crime, anarchy 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 09:14 AM PDT
To match Mideast Money - LIBYA-ISLAMIC/By Ulf Laessing and Ghaith Shennib TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen rob millions from Libya's central bank. Boatloads of protesters storm an oil terminal like pirates. Tribesmen block a port - and contradict the prime minister when he tells the nation it will reopen soon. Libyans have become accustomed to chaos in a country flooded with weaponry where militias and tribes call the shots, two years after NATO bombing helped rebels topple Muammar Gaddafi. ...
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Wash. pair to be sentenced in adopted girl's death 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 07:58 AM PDT
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A Washington couple accused of starving, beating and forcing their adopted daughter outside as punishment face long prison terms Tuesday for her death.
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5 killed in Texas city slayings, suspect arrested 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 07:20 AM PDT
Ali Karimi, at left beneath an American flag, stands in front of his convenience store, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, in Terrell, Texas. Authorities say five people were shot and killed, including a clerk at the store, by a single gunman in a shooting spree. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)TERRELL, Texas (AP) — Police arrested a 36-year-old man early Tuesday who is suspected of killing five people during a rapid series of attacks hours earlier in a rural North Texas community.
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Christians in Iran Reportedly Sentenced to 80 Lashes for Drinking Wine During Communion 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 07:14 AM PDT
"...effectively criminalize the Christian sacrament of sharing in the Lord's Supper."
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Bolshoi ballet dancer: Not guilty of acid attack 
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 05:40 AM PDT
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, Pavel Dmitrichenko stands in a cage at a court room . Bolshoi ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, who is accused of being behind an acid attack against Bolshoi's artistic director Sergei Filin, pleaded not guilty to the charges of plotting the assault on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — A Bolshoi ballet dancer who is accused of ordering an acid attack on the company's ballet chief pleaded not guilty Tuesday as his trial began in Moscow.
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