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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 …
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 …
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