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Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase by Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase Shackling Violates the Due Process In a 7-to-2 decision that Justices Thomas and Scalia criticized as shunning common sense and risk[ing] the lives of courtroom personnel, with little corresponding benefit to defendants," the United States Supreme Court held that …
Bringing Down The Brotherhood by by Alan Prendergast Inside the feds' war on the deadliest prison gang: 16 murders. 21 death-penalty cases. Snitches galore. A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
U.S. Finally Outlaws Execution of Children by by Marjorie Cohn Today, the Court repudiated the misguided idea that the United States can pledge to leave no child behind while simultaneously exiling children to the death chamber. Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International Until March 1, 2005, the United …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Report Details General Decline In Death Penalty Statistics For 2003 by Michael Rigby For most of the nation, 2003 was a year of declining death penalty statistics. That year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, the number of death sentences imposed fell to a 30-year low, while …
Article • October 15, 2005
Certain Blood for Uncertain Reasons: Reinstating Capital Punishment in Vermont by by Michael Mello Seventeen winters ago, a man I loved as a father was murdered. A few days before Christmas 1989, a racist coward with a grudge mailed a shoebox- sized bomb to federal appellate Judge Robert S. Vance. …
Article • October 15, 2005
Flashbacks: Vietnam And Capital Punishment by by Michael Mello Professor of Law Vermont Law School Capital punishment in our time has always reminded me of the Vietnam war. Certain blood for uncertain reasons," as Tim O'Brien wrote of his war. The only measure of success was the body count. No …
North Carolina Prosecutors Reprimanded For Intentionally Withholding Crucial Exculpatory Evidence in Capital Case by by Matthew T. Clarke Alan Gell cried recently after a North Carolina State Bar panel issued a mere reprimand, the least discipline possible, to two former prosecutors who withheld evidence in his capital murder case. "Here …
Habeas Hints by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (in pro per). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs …
Fatal Justice: The New Maryland by Michael Rigby It's a state already steeped in heritage--birthplace of The Star Spangled Banner, home to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and site of the bloody Civil War battle at Antietam. But now Maryland is raising a new legacy: a system of dangerous …
Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years by Michael Rigby Award-winning prison journalist and civil rights figure Wilbert Rideau, once described as “the most rehabilitated prisoner in America,” is free after spending more than four decades behind bars. Ironically, Rideau’s freedom came not from being exonerated, but from being found …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure by U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure In an extremely limited," unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court held that an Alabama death row prisoner properly utilized 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge a …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Judges Of Death by Mumia Abu-Jamal As the nation pondered the fate of a young California man being sentenced to death, the case of another man, one lesser-known, one without wealth or whiteness, comes back before the nation's highest court, after having been shunted through a series of killing courts …
Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising by Karen Thimmes By Staughton Lynd; Temple University Press, 2004; soft cover, 244 pages. $16.95 Reviewed by Karen G. Thimmes Death Row in Ohio is located at Mansfield Correctional Institution, a stone's throw from the fabled Mansfield Penitentiary, where much of the …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Doctors of Death and the Medicalization of State Murder by Michael Rigby Doctors of Death and the Medicalization of State Murder by Michael Rigby Prisoners often wonder if prison medical personnel really have their best interests at heart. But in the case of Sanjeeva Rao, a Georgia prison doctor, there …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
World Court Rules Against U.S. for Consular Notification Failures by by Matthew T. Clarke On March 31, 2004, the International Court of Justice (also known as the World Court) held that the United States was in violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR). The case was brought by …
Former Illinois Governor Indicted on Federal Charges by Former Illinois governor and Nobel Peace Prize nominee George Ryan was indicted December 17, 2003, on federal charges of racketeering, mail and tax fraud, and lying to investigators. Federal prosecutors allege that Ryan and his political bedfellows treated state employees and the …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Executions Rose in 2002; Texas Led in Number of Deaths by In 2002, thirteen states in the United States of America executed 71 prisoners, with Texas killing the greatest number of them (33). California held the most prisoners on death row at year end 2002 (640), followed by Texas (450), …
Article • December 15, 2003
Warden's False testimony at Death Sentence Hearing Okay by The petitioner was convicted of murdering another prisoner and was sentenced to death. At the penalty phase, the warden testified that he thought a death sentence had "quite an effect" on the prison population and a life sentence had "very little …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
World Court Orders U.S. to Stop Executing Mexicans by by Matthew T. Clarke On January 5, 2003, Mexico applied for an injunction from the International Court of Justice, or World Court, to halt the execution of 54 of its citizens by the United States. Mexico claimed that none of them …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Ninth Circuit Judge Investigated for Writing Condemned Prisoner by by Marvin Mentor California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called into question the impartiality of Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski as to death penalty cases after Kozinski and two other Ninth Circuit judges visited San Quentin State Prison in California, speaking with …
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