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Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Solitary Confinement for Death Row Prisoners a Blot on U.S. Justice System by Derek Gilna Although more and more states have abolished the death penalty in recent years, with six states doing away with capital punishment since 2007, the death penalty still has strong support in certain elements of society, …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Former Maryland Governor Acknowledges Politics Behind Life Means Life Policy by Parris Glendening, who served as Maryland's governor from 1995 through 2002, has acknowledged, around a decade later, the role that politics played in his adoption of a "life means life" policy that effectively ended early release for prisoners sentenced …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
A Prolonged Stay: The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions by Raymond Bonner by Raymond Bonner, ProPublica States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions. In California, which has the country's largest death row …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Ninth Circuit: Idaho Ordered to Allow Viewing of all Stages of Execution by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In reversing and remanding an Idaho federal district court's denial of a preliminary injunction, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals directed the lower court to enter an order requiring the State …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Reprieved Oregon Prisoner Wages Legal Fight to be Executed by As previously reported in PLN, on November 22, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term in office. In doing so he canceled the scheduled execution of Gary Haugen, 50, …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Maryland Repeals Death Penalty by Christopher Zoukis On May 2, 2013, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty, and the 18th state – along with the District of Columbia – that has rejected capital punishment. Maryland is the first Southern state to forgo executions …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Muslim Prisoners Challenge Ohio’s Denial of Halal Meals; Pork Producers Protest by Joe Watson In 2011, Abdul-Hamead Awkal, II, 52, and Cornelius Causey, 35, both Muslim prisoners, filed separate lawsuits against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), arguing that the ODRC’s refusal to provide halal meals infringed on …
Article • May 15, 2013
Georgia Prison Doctor Sued for Illegally Importing Drugs Used to Execute Troy Davis by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 20, 2011, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a complaint with the Georgia Composite Medical Board against Dr. Carlo Musso, seeking the revocation or suspension of …
Article • May 15, 2013
North Carolina Court Dismisses Petition for Judicial Review and Upholds Execution Protocol by North Carolina Department of Corrections' death row prisoners petitioned the Superior Court of North Carolina for judicial review of the Council of State's approval of an execution protocol order under G.S. 15-188 that would be carried out …
Article • April 15, 2013
Dismissal of §1983 Challenge to Alabama's Lethal Injection Procedure Reversed by Dismissal of §1983 Challenge to Alabama's Lethal Injection Procedure Reversed On March 21, 2012, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded with instructions a death row's prisoner's lethal injection procedure claim. Alabama State prisoner Thomas D. Arthur, …
Article • April 15, 2013
Florida Supreme Court Affirms Prisoner’s Death Sentence by The Supreme Court of Florida affirmed in February 2012 the circuit court’s denial of post-conviction relief in the death sentence of William Van Poyck. Appellant Van Poyck filed in 2007 a motion alleging his non-triggerman status as being of sufficient weight to …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Oregon Re-Sells Unused Execution Drugs by On November 22, 2011, death penalty opponents cheered Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s decision to halt the scheduled December 6, 2011 execution of Gary Haugen, and to impose a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term. Kitzhaber called the death penalty “compromised …
Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012
Nebraska Refuses to Return Execution Drug to Swiss Company by In its desperation to obtain a supply of sodium thiopental, one of the three drugs commonly used to carry out executions by lethal injection, the State of Nebraska circumvented the manufacturer, which does not sell the drug for use in …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Texas Abolishes Last Meals for Death Row Prisoners, Reduces Weekend Meals by Matthew Clarke Texas served its final last meal to condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer, who, on September 21, 2011, was executed for the infamous racially-motivated 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. Brewer requested an extensive last meal …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Florida Death Row Prisoners Cannot Challenge Sentence Pro Se by Citing its “constitutional responsibility to ensure the death penalty is administered in a fair, consistent and reliable manner, as well as having an administrative responsibility to work to minimize the delays inherent in the post-conviction process,” the Florida Supreme Court …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
CA Court of Appeal: Documents Identifying Suppliers of Execution Drug are Public Records by On December 20, 2011, a California Court of Appeal held that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) may not withhold the names of pharmaceutical companies and other sources from which it sought to acquire …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Death Sentences, Executions Remain at Low Levels by Justin Miller According to a report released by the Death Penalty Information Center last December, there were 78 new death sentences imposed in 2011, down significantly from 104 in 2010 and the fewest new death sentences since capital punishment was reinstated in …
Mississippi Supreme Court Denies Equity Court Review of Death Penalty Cases by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna The complaint of sixteen death-row inmates in Mississippi which sought Chancery Court review of the adequacy of their legal representation has been denied by the Mississippi Supreme Court for lack of jurisdiction based …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber, by Scott Christianson (University of California Press, 2011). by Julie Etter The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber, by Scott Christianson (University of California Press, 2011). 344 pages, $18.95 paperback Book review by …
Publication • 2012
Capital Punishment Statistical Trends BJS 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised August 29, 2014 Bureau of Justice Statistics Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician A t yearend 2012, 35 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 3,033 inmates under sentence of death, which was 32 fewer …
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