In the United States, the fear of a return in force of the death penalty-Liberation

Glen Rogers is 62 years old, including twenty-seven in the death corridor in the United States. This Thursday, May 15 at 6 p.m. Thursday (midnight in Paris), he must be executed in the prison of state of Raiford, Florida. Former bus driver from Ohio, he was convicted of having killed in 1995 a 34 -year -old woman whom he had met in a bar on the evening of the facts (and suspected of the murder of several other people, notably women, which earned him the nickname « Casanova Killer » in the American press) – as well as another death conviction, pronounced in 1999 in California.

Until the end, his lawyers tried to save him. Their client, they argue, suffers from a serious blood disease, porphyria, and the lethal injection administered to the killing in Florida as a result to cause him « Useless suffering ». After the rejection of their appeal by state justice, on May 9, lawyers made a new suspended request, this time with the Federal Supreme Court. She was also rejected this Wednesday.

In addition to that of Glen Rogers, three other executions are expected in the United States in the coming week. That of Matthew Johnson in Huntsville (Texas) on Tuesday, that of Benjamin Ritchie in Michigan City (Indiana) on the same day, and finally that of Oscar Smith in Nashville (Tennessee) on Thursday. This macabre program, which still depends on the culmination of a series of legal appeals, could bring to 19