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Publication • August 3, 2016
Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas, Bright, 2000 Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas: Why Full Habeas Corpus Review by Independent Federal Judges Is Indispensable to Protecting Constitutional Rights Stephen B. Bright* Texas Law Review, Volume 78, page 1806 (2000) Copyright c 2000 Texas Law Review …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Ninth Circuit Reverses Habeas Relief in California Death Penalty Case by Derek Gilna On November 12, 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a setback to death penalty abolitionists by reversing a grant of habeas corpus relief to a California prisoner who argued that the state’s post-conviction process in …
Publication • August 1, 2016
Minority Practice, Majority’s Burden - The Death Penalty Today, Liebman and Clarke, 2012 DRAFT: Please do not cite or distribute without express permission. Minority Practice, Majority’s Burden: The Death Penalty Today James S. Liebman Simon H. Rifkin Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and Peter Clarke J.D. expected 2012, Columbia …
Publication • August 1, 2016
Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems – AZ Death Penalty Assessment Report, ABA, 2006 Defending Liberty Pursuing Justice EVALUATING FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN STATE DEATH PENALTY SYSTEMS: The Arizona Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Arizona’s Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices “A system that takes …
Publication • August 1, 2016
The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders, Amnesty International, 2003 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The execution of mentally ill offenders I cannot believe that capital punishment is a solution – to abolish murder by murdering, an endless chain of murdering. When I heard that my daughter’s murderer was not to be …
Publication • August 1, 2016
Mandatory Justice - The Death Penalty Revisited, The Constitution Project, 2005 MANDATORY JUSTICE: The DEATH PENALTY REVISITED An Initiative of The Constitution Project Copyright © by the Constitution Project. All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by means, …
Brief • July 19, 2016
State of Alabama v. Eugene et al, AL, Order, judge misconduct death penalty, 2016 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM DIVISION STATE OF ALABAMA V. BIILUPS KENNETH EUGENE Defendant. CHATMAN, STANLEY Defendant. MCMULLIN, TERRELL Defendant. ) ) ) Case Nos.: ) CC-2005-001755.00 CC-2012-001194.00 CC-2012-001195.00 CC-2014-003011.00 CC-2014-003012.00 CC-2014-003015.00 …
America's Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors - How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty, Fair Punishment Project, 2015 FAIR PUNISHMENT PROJECT AMERICA’S TOP FIVE DEADLIEST PROSECUTORS: How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty JUNE 2016 Last year, a journalist asked Dale Cox, then the District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, about …
Publication • July 12, 2016
Rethinking Death Row - Variations in the Housing of Individuals, Yale Law School, 2016 Rethinking Death Row: Variations in the Housing of Individuals Sentenced to Death The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program Yale Law School July 2016 Rethinking “Death Row”: Rethinking “Death Row”: Variations in the Housing of Individuals Sentenced …
Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty Conviction on Batson Grounds by Derek Gilna The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-1 decision, left no doubt that it did not believe prosecutors’ assertions that race was not a factor during jury selection in a death penalty case. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing …
Pfizer Deals Blow to Lethal Injections by Christopher Zoukis Pfizer, Inc., the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, recently announced new restrictions on the distribution of drugs used to execute prisoners. The May 13, 2016 announcement detailed “distribution restrictions” that the company is placing on certain drugs used in lethal injection protocols, …
Medical Statistical Model Used to Estimate Wrongful Conviction Rate in Death Penalty Cases by Matthew Clarke An interesting collaboration between medical and law professionals, under the leadership of University of Michigan Law School professor Samuel R. Gross, led to the application of medical statistical analysis to exonerations of death-sentenced prisoners, …
In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement by by Alyssa Stryker, Solitary Watch “When we were sentenced to death,” wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, “we weren’t sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept in solitary dungeons until the day …
Saudi executions: beyond the numbers by By Halim Shebaya, openDemocracy This article was originally published by openDemocracy on January 8, 2016. Copyright, openDemocracy. Reprinted with permission. https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/halim-shebaya/saudi-executions-beyond-numbers  The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, …
California’s Broken Death Penalty System by Christopher Zoukis While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide by Anti-death penalty advocate Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convicted and served almost 20 years in North Carolina prisons before being exonerated in 2004, was found dead on March 13, 2016 in a car near the Wake Forest University campus. Police officials revealed that …
Death Penalty Opponent Delbert Tibbs Dies at 74 by David Reutter Delbert Tibbs, a peaceful advocate to abolish the death penalty, has lost his battle against cancer and died at the age of 74. His advocacy was borne of personal experience of being wrongfully convicted. Tibbs was born on June …
Texas Executes Mexican National despite Unresolved Vienna Convention Claim by On January 22, 2014, Texas executed Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, for the 1994 murder of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis despite an unresolved claim of a Vienna Convention violation. As applied to Tamayo, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations required …
2013 A Busy Year for Sentencing Reforms in 31 States by Joe Watson Closing a few prisons won’t be enough for significantly reduce the U.S. prison population of more than 1.5 million men and women, according to a report from the Sentencing Project. Real reductions argues the Washington, D.C. advocacy …
State of Florida v. Gaiter, FL, Order, unconstitutionality of state death penalty statute , 2016
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