No Death Penalty for Anderson, Bethea

November 6, 2009

Cumberland County prosecutors have announced that they will not seek the death penalty against Michael Anderson or Derrick Durrant Bethea.  Anderson stands accused of shooting his girlfriend in their apartment in 2008, while Bethea shot another man to death outside of a nightclub earlier this year.


Executions – November 2009

November 4, 2009

4 – Paul Beasley Johnson (FL – stayed)

5 – Khristian Oliver (TX)

10 – Darryl Durr (OH – stayed)

10 – Yosvanis Valle (TX)

10 – John Allen Muhammad (VA)

17 – Larry Elliott (VA)

17 – Gerald Eldridge (TX)

18 -Danielle Simpson (TX – volunteer)

19 – Robert Thompson (TX)


Death Penalty Lawyer Elected Mayor

November 4, 2009

Well here’s one you don’t see every day.

Mark Kleinschmidt, director of the Fair Trial Initiative and counsel for several North Carolina death row inmates, has been elected mayor of Chapel Hill.


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