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Death row prisoner who hired hitman to kill his family given last-minute reprieve
His father appealed for his life.
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His father appealed for his life.
She has served seven years of a 35-year sentence for leaking classified material.
Warren Hill, who is intellectually disabled,was sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner.
The pilot flew his plane to Jordan while on a training mission.
The doctors and nurses were sentenced after being found guilty of aiding an uprising against the Gulf kingdom’s regime.
The Phillipine president made an appeal on humanitarian grounds to avert today’s execution.
David Norris confirms he received a disability pension from Trinity College, after being diagnosed with Hepatitis in 1994.
The National Library received boxes of David Norris papers but won’t be opening them to the public or media without senator’s permission.
Senator David Norris says more letters seeking clemency for Ezra Nawi are covered by “professional legal privilege”.
Mattie McGrath has yet to make a decision on supporting Norris, while Shane Ross has confirmed his support. Meanwhile the Sunday Times reports six new clemency letters have been revealed.
After spending more than two decades on death row, Georgia inmate Troy Davis is to be killed by lethal injection today – despite Amnesty International insisting that the evidence against him has “fallen apart”.
The Fine Gael presidential candidate is under pressure for letters appealing for clemency for death row inmates that he has written during his time as a TD and MEP.
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
Gay Mitchell tells RTÉ that he sought clemency for Paul Hill simply because he thinks the death penalty “is barbaric”.
A Fine Gael TD is calling on the party’s presidential candidate to explain a letter he sent eight years ago.
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