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Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Death Penalty Case Reveals Morgue Worker Had Sex with 100 Female Corpses by In another development in the macabre murder, rape and death penalty case of convicted killer David Steffen, a former Hamilton County, Ohio morgue worker admitted to engaging in sex with around 100 female corpses. Kenneth Douglas acknowledged …
Oklahoma DOC Creates “Dream Team” for Botched Executions with Hires from Arizona by Joe Watson If Oklahoma was hoping to establish a tradition or trend of botched executions, it brought in the right people to carry them out. Just days after overseeing a disturbing execution at Arizona’s Florence prison complex …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Despite Initial Approval, Belgian Prisoner Denied Euthanasia by Derek Gilna Belgian prisoner Frank Van Den Bleeken, who in 1989 raped and killed Christiane Remacle, a student from Antwerp, was sentenced to life and has spent over 30 years in prison. Most European countries, unlike the United States, have abolished the …
Publication • September 1, 2016
Capital Punishment Update, Vogel, 2004 MONTHLY REVIEW AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST MAGAZINE 2004 › Volume 56, Issue 07 (December) › Capital Punishment Update Capital Punishment Update by Richard D. Vogel Following a short hiatus in the 1970s, capital punishment has regained its position as the most reactionary social policy in America. …
McDaniel v. Lombard, MO, complaint, denied being witness to execution, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI CENTRAL DIVISION Christopher S. McDaniel, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. George Lombardi, in his official capacity as Director of the Missouri …
Article • August 25, 2016
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Speedy Death Penalty Law by On June 12, 2014, the Supreme Court of Florida held for the state in a constitutional challenge of the state's Timely Justice Act (the Act) of 2013, weighed by death row prisoners. Seeking to expand Allen v. Butterworth, 756 So. 2d …
Article • August 24, 2016
Lawsuit Challenging BOP’s Ban on Face-to-Face Media Interviews Continues by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a jury could conclude the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) ban on face-to-face interviews with death row prisoners was not based on security threats related to such prisoners becoming jailhouse celebrities and …
Article • August 23, 2016
Missouri to Execute Death-Row Prisoners with Drug that Killed Michael Jackson by If propofol was lethal enough to kill the King of Pop. Missouri's Department of Corrections figures that it's sufficient to execute its death-row prisoners. State DOC officials announced in May that they were replacing their three-drug method for …
Article • August 19, 2016
Eighth Circuit Denies Stay of Execution Pending Appeal Over Execution Drug by On October 30, 2015, the Eighth Circuit court of appeals denied Missouri death row prisoner Ernest Johnson a stay pending appeal of his challenge to the type of drug being used to execute prisoners in Missouri. Johnson underwent …
Article • August 10, 2016
Missouri Uses Execution Drug despite DOC Director's Denials Of Plans to Use by Christopher Zoukis Missouri's nine most recent executions have been carried out by killing prisoners with Midazolam, a drug that the state's Director of the Department of Corrections has stated in a sworn deposition that it had no …
Iran's Mass Executions and Abuses Continue by Christopher Zoukis Iran's dismal record on human rights has been reinforced once again, via the latest wave of mass executions, prisoner abuses, and clampdowns on those who stand against its theocratic regime. On August 4, 2014, 40 prisoners were killed at Shahr-e Kord …
Article • August 10, 2016
Prieto’s Promise: An End to Death Row? by Mumia Abu-Jamal In late 2013, a federal judge in Virginia issued a remarkable ruling in the case of Prieto v. Clark. The civil suit, brought by Virginia death row prisoner Alfredo R. Prieto, challenged conditions on the state’s execution unit, including total …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Death Penalty
Federal Judge Voids California Death Penalty Law that “Serves No Penological Purpose” by Derek Gilna The State of California’s criminal justice system, which in recent years has received increasing scrutiny from the federal courts for what it termed numerous constitutional violations, received yet another setback in a recent federal judge’s …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Death Row
Federal Guard Has Sex with Coworkers and Impregnated by Prisoner by Gary Hunter Nancy Gonzalez was a guard at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) when she became pregnant with a prisoner’s baby. The father Ronell Wilson was convicted in 2006, of the point-blank shooting of two undercover policemen. Ms. …
Article • August 10, 2016
Use of Death Penalty Trending Downwards by In its year-end report, the Washington, D.C., based Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) reported that there were 43 executions and 78 new death sentences in 2012, continuing a generally downward trend that began in the mid-1990s. As of April 1, 2012, there were …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement, IHRA, 2010 Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement Rick Lines, Damon Barrett and Patrick Gallahue © 2010 International Harm Reduction Association ISBN 978-0-9566116-0-4 This report was produced by the Human Rights Programme …
Article • August 9, 2016
Last Act in Office - Maryland Governor Commutes Four Death Row Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis In a highly controversial decision, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) commutes the sentences of four death-row prisoners to spend the rest of their lives in prison without the possibility of parole. An opponent of the …
Man Nearly Executed, Awarded $14M after Exoneration by A former death row inmate who came within weeks of being executed was awarded $14 million by a federal jury in New Orleans after being cleared of his murder conviction. John Thompson, 40, spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of …
Article • August 4, 2016
After Botched Execution Oklahoma Restricts Media Access by Mark Wilson In the wake of a botched execution, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections adopted new rules on September 30, 2014, severely limiting media access to executions. Media representatives and other observers waited in a viewing room, to witness the April 29, …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Judges and the Politics of Death, Bright & Keenan, 1995 JUDGES AND THE POLITICS OF DEATH: DECIDING BETWEEN THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE NEXT ELECTION IN CAPITAL CASES Stephen B. Bright1 Patrick J. Keenan2 Volume 73 Boston University Law Review Page 759 (May 1995) Copyright (c) 1995 Trustees of …
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