Cases and articles

The State of North Carolina has scheduled Guy LeGrande, a mentally ill, African-American man who represented himself before an all-white jury wearing a Superman T-shirt, to die on December 1, 2006.

BBC News

The brother of a Leeds man on death row in Pakistan has made an urgent
appeal for his life after hearing he is to be executed in two weeks.
Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, is set to be hanged on 1 November for the murder of
a taxi driver 18 years ago.

His brother Amjad and Amnesty International have called on Pakistan's
president to halt the execution.

By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY Tribune Chronicle

WARREN - A team of prosecutors are looking to gain a murder conviction and ultimately send the 11th Trumbull County defendant to Ohio's death row.

For now, jury selection continues Monday in an effort to seat a panel of 12 people and four alternates who will hear the case of Jermaine McKinney, the 26-year-old Youngstown man who goes by the street name of ‘‘Maniac'' and faces capital murder charges in the December murder of a mother and daughter in Newton Township.

By The Associated Press

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MADISON - Juan Melendez says he prayed the rosary five times a day while he was on Florida's death row, looking for a miracle to exonerate him for a 1983 murder he didn't commit.

His miracle came more than 17 years later when his conviction was overturned, but he says he's convinced other innocent inmates were not as lucky.