by Kathleen Lucas | Feb 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
What prompts county to seek death penalty? February 22, 2014 11:24 PM By Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette On March 11, 2013, David Mazzocco shot three people in a bar in North Fayette, killing one and injuring two. The Allegheny County district...
by Kathleen Lucas | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Amnesty International Puerto Rico has fronted a campaign for the exoneration of Death Row inmates by displaying food requested by the wrongfully accused before their deaths. Here were their last meals, photographed by James Reynolds. Ruben Cantu, executed for murder...
by Kathleen Lucas | Jan 18, 2014 | Billy H. Nolas
We celebrate the life of Dr. King on Monday, so mentioning a milestone from 2013 seemed proper to me. We had this milestone when, in a dreary Bucks County hearing room, the prosecutor conceded that David Ramtahal should be resentenced to a sentence other than death....
by Kathleen Lucas | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Robert Carl Nordvall Robert Carl Nordvall, 73, formerly of Gettysburg, passed away January 2, 2014 in Pistoia, Italy. Born March 23,1940 in Oak Park, Illinois, he was the son of the late Stuart Nordvall and Carmella Craglione Nordvall. He received a Bachelor’s...
by Kathleen Lucas | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
By: David E. Frank January 7, 2014 The Boston Bar Association announced today that, for the first time in its 250-year history, the organization is taking a stand against the death penalty in federal cases. The announcement comes after a panel chaired by...
