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Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Filed under: Sentencing, Death Penalty
Research Finds Capital Punishment System in California is Costly, Ineffectual by A June 2011 law review article by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Arthur L. Alarcón and Loyola Law School Professor Paula M. Mitchell, Alarcón’s longtime law clerk, analyzes the costs to taxpayers of administering California’s capital punishment …
Article • May 15, 2012
Doctors Who Participate in Executions Not Disciplined for Ethical Violations by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke Since 1980, American Medical Association (AMA) policy has stated that it is a clear violation of medical ethics for physicians to participate in executions. The policy, which was last updated in 2005, contains a …
Article • May 15, 2012
Sixth Circuit Holds Lethal Injection Protocol Challenge Time Barred by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's holding that a condemned Ohio prisoner's lethal injection procedure challenge was time-barred. In 1986, Richard Cooey, II was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio. His appeal …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Banning Death Penalty, Commutes All Death Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation banning the death penalty for state crimes in Illinois. He also commuted the sentences of the state’s 15 death row prisoners to life …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Death Sentence Reversed Due to “Accidental” Perjury by Texas Prison Investigator by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a death sentence imposed on a state prisoner convicted of capital murder, because a prison investigator had falsely described the prisoner classification system in the Texas …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Texas Psychologist Who Approved Prisoners for Execution Receives Reprimand by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas psychologist who used questionable methods to examine over a dozen Texas death row prisoners prior to their trials, and found them intellectually competent to face the death penalty, has been fined for using …
Brief • March 6, 2012
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
Powell v. Miller, Complaint, Death Penalty, 2012 Case 5:10-cv-01294-D Document 53 Filed 03/06/12 Page 1 of 28 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA PAR IS La PRIE ST P OW ELL , ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) Case No. C IV-2010-129 4-D …
Article • February 15, 2012
California Moratorium on Executions Continues by Two days before his scheduled execution, the Ninth Circuit remanded back to the district court Albert Brown's Eighth Amendment challenge to the method of his execution to determine whether, under the "demonstrated risk" standard articulated by the Supreme Court in Baze v. Rees, 553 …
Days Without End: Life Sentences and Penal Reform by Marie Gottschalk Death fades into insignificance when compared with life imprisonment. To spend each night in jail, day after day, year after year, gazing at the bars and longing for freedom, is indeed expiation. —Lewis E. Lawes, warden of Sing Sing …
Article • September 15, 2011
Death Penalty Scrutinized: Court Halts Missouri Physician-Overseen Lethal Drug Execution; Ten States Suspend Executions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death penalty has come under renewed scrutiny nationwide with nine states suspending executions by lethal injection. Serious questions have been raised both as to Eighth Amendment concerns of …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Florida’s House Speaker Wants to Quicken Executions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Speeding up Florida’s execution machinery is a top priority for state House Speaker Dean Cannon. Cannon’s efforts to achieve that goal have included abolishing a commission that oversees death penalty cases and trying to reorganize the …
States Scramble to Find Lethal Injection Drugs by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “From this day forward I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.” —Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, Callins v. Collins, 501 U.S. 1141 (1994) The only American producer of sodium thiopental has abandoned the …
Brief • May 19, 2011
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
Douglas v. Miller, Complaint, Death Penalty, 2011 Case 5:10-cv-01295-D Document 30 Filed 05/19/11 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA YANCEY LYNDELL DOUGLAS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) (1) ROBERT BRADLEY MILLER, ) individually, (2) ROBERT BRADLEY ) …
Protecting Society or Fooling Ourselves? Research-Based Insights on Sex Offender Policy in the United States by Dr. DJ Williams Dr. DJ Williams and Robbie Jenks, Idaho State University USA “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken Since the early 1990s, …
Death Sentence Affirmed for Florida Prisoner Convicted in Guard’s Death During Botched Escape by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The Florida Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence of a prisoner convicted in the murder of a guard during a botched prison escape. Stephen Smith and his codefendants, Dwight …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Ohio Governor Spares Death Row Prisoner, Cites Problems with Evidence by Derek Gilna Kevin Keith, 46, on Ohio’s death row for murdering two women and a 4-year-old child, and scheduled for execution on September 15, 2010, was spared by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. In commuting the death penalty portion of …
Article • March 15, 2011
Sixth Circuit: Lethal Injection Challenge Time-Barred; Agrees Cooey II Wrongly Decided, Urges En Banc Review by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a condemned prisoner’s challenge to Ohio’s lethal-injection protocol as time-barred under Cooey v. Strickland, 479 F.3d 412 (6th Cir. 2007) (Cooey II). The court …
Brief • February 24, 2011
Bentivoglio Letter to AG re Andrew DeYoung execution, GA, CSA violation, 2011 SKADDEN. ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP 1440 NEW YORK AVENUE, NW. F"IRM/AF"F"ILIATE OFFICES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-2111 TEL: (202) 371 -7000 FAX: (202) 393-5760 www.skadden.com DIRECT DIAL (202) 371-7560 BOSTON CHICAGO HOUSTON LOS ANGELES NEW YORK PALO ALTO …
Virginia Prisoner Kills Cellmate, Requests Death Sentence by Mark Wilson “I murdered that man cold-bloodedly. I planned it, and I’m gonna do it again,” said Virginia state prisoner Robert Gleason, Jr., 40, after murdering his cellmate, Harvey Gray Watson, Jr. “Someone needs to stop it. The only way to stop …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Texas Capital Defendants with Hired Attorneys Rarely Receive Death Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2010, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) published an issue brief on the relationship between hired defense counsel and the death penalty. The brief concluded that defendants charged with …
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