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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) …
Article • April 15, 2011
Homosexual Literature Allowed on Death Row by On March 30, 1999, a Louisiana Magistrate filed his recommendation in a suit filed by death row prisoner George Brooks, Jr., against Louisiana's DOC. The complaint alleged First Amendment violations in regard to five sexually explicit books confiscated from him by the mailroom …
Brief • April 1, 2011
State of Ohio v. Broom, OH, Judgment, 8th Am death penalty failed execution, 2011
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Ohio Governor Spares Death Row Prisoner, Cites Problems with Evidence by Derek Gilna Kevin Keith, 46, on Ohio’s death row for murdering two women and a 4-year-old child, and scheduled for execution on September 15, 2010, was spared by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. In commuting the death penalty portion of …
Article • March 15, 2011
Sixth Circuit: Lethal Injection Challenge Time-Barred; Agrees Cooey II Wrongly Decided, Urges En Banc Review by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a condemned prisoner’s challenge to Ohio’s lethal-injection protocol as time-barred under Cooey v. Strickland, 479 F.3d 412 (6th Cir. 2007) (Cooey II). The court …
Brief • February 24, 2011
Bentivoglio Letter to AG re Andrew DeYoung execution, GA, CSA violation, 2011 SKADDEN. ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP 1440 NEW YORK AVENUE, NW. F"IRM/AF"F"ILIATE OFFICES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-2111 TEL: (202) 371 -7000 FAX: (202) 393-5760 www.skadden.com DIRECT DIAL (202) 371-7560 BOSTON CHICAGO HOUSTON LOS ANGELES NEW YORK PALO ALTO …
Article • February 15, 2011
Gang Validation - The New Inquisition by Steve Champion On July 23, 2010, my cell was searched and three boxes of my property (legal material, books, notes, and personal writings) were confiscated and turned over to Institutional Gang Investigations (I.G. I.) for possible gang validation. The reason for the action, …
Virginia Prisoner Kills Cellmate, Requests Death Sentence by Mark Wilson “I murdered that man cold-bloodedly. I planned it, and I’m gonna do it again,” said Virginia state prisoner Robert Gleason, Jr., 40, after murdering his cellmate, Harvey Gray Watson, Jr. “Someone needs to stop it. The only way to stop …
Mississippi DOC Closes Unit 32 by A settlement agreement was reached in June 2010 to close the notorious Unit 32 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. The agreement provides for the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged conditions at the supermax unit. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Texas Capital Defendants with Hired Attorneys Rarely Receive Death Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2010, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) published an issue brief on the relationship between hired defense counsel and the death penalty. The brief concluded that defendants charged with …
Brief • October 27, 2010
Fields v. City of Chicago, IL, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-01168 Document #: 105 Filed: 10/27/10 Page 1 of 37 PageID #:646 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION NATHSON E. FIELDS, Plaintiff, ) ) ) v. ) ) CITY OF CHICAGO; ) COUNTY OF …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Filed under: Death Row, Visiting
Georgia Ends Contact Visits for Death Row Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three non-execution deaths on Georgia’s death row in as many months, including two suicides, resulted in a focus on conditions for condemned prisoners at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. The response by prison officials …
Texas Controversy: Governor Guts Forensic Science Commission by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Texas Governor Rick Perry caused considerable controversy on Sept. 30, 2009 when he replaced three members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, just two days before the commission’s hearing on a report that an innocent man may …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Texas Judge Sharon “Killer” Keller Receives Sanctions by by Matt Clarke On January 20, 2010, San Antonio judge David A. Berchelmann, Jr., acting as a special master for the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct, issued findings of fact in a disciplinary complaint against Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of …
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