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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
Alabama Condemned Prisoner Commits Suicide with Unknown Object by An Alabama prisoner on death row killed himself with an unknown object. In 2005, Jason Jones, 29, was convicted of the 2004 beating and stabbing deaths of his parents, Nancy and Dr. Tim Jones, in their Monroeville, Alabama residence. "I am …
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 …
Brief • February 16, 2012
State of Ohio v. Broom, OH, Judgment, 8th Am death penalty failed execution, 2012 [Cite as State v. Broom, 2012-Ohio-587.] Court of Appeals of Ohio EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION No. 96747 STATE OF OHIO PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE vs. ROMELL BROOM DEFENDANT-APPELLANT JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED Civil Appeal from …
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 …
Brief • November 8, 2011
Filed under: Death Row
Presley v. Epps, MS, Motion for Attorney Fees, Death Row Conditions, 2011 Case: 4:05-cv-00148-DAS Doc #: 148 Filed: 11/08/11 1 of 47 PageID #: 1236 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI GREENVILLE DIVISION JEFFERY PRESLEY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. No. 4:05-CV-00148 CHRISTOPHER EPPS, et …
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 …
Article • August 15, 2011
California’s Death Row: More Suicides Than Executions by Since California’s death penalty was reestablished in 1978, only 13 condemned prisoners have been executed. But in that same period, 38 have died of natural causes while another 14 have committed suicide. In spite of updated suicide prevention procedures, on June 10, …
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 • April 15, 2011
California: Right of Self-Representation May Be Restricted but Not Denied Based on Jailhouse Security Concerns by In a 5-2 decision, the California Supreme Court reversed the conviction and sentence of death imposed on a defendant who, while on capital trial for murdering two college students (see: People v. Butler (2009) …
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