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Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
ABA Calls for Halt to Executions by In February, 1997, by a vote of 280 to 119, representatives of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates endorsed a report calling for a nationwide suspension of executions until the judicial process is overhauled. The report was offered jointly by the A.B.A.'s …
Texas Lawyers Unhappy About Conscription by In 1995 Congress cut funding for some twenty-odd regional death penalty resource centers, pro bono legal aid clinics which specialized in death penalty appeals. The Texas legislature halved the $4 million in state funds budgeted to pay for counsel in state capital appeals cases …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Execution Conflicts with Medical Ethics by David Nelson, a 51-year-old convicted murderer, was scheduled for execution in Alabama on December 8, 1996. A last-minute stay by the Alabama supreme court delayed the execution so that Nelson could donate a kidney to his brother, Louis Nelson, who lost a leg to …
New Triad by Pierre Duterte Some death row prisoners who have been executed attain celebrity. We have all heard about the Rosenbergs, Carryl Chessman's name comes to mind, Gary Gillmore also. But do you know Joseph Paul Jernigan? No? Come on, if I tell you CD-Rom disk ... Internet ... …
Gas Chamber Found Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that held the California gas chamber was an unconstitutional form of execution that violated the eighth amendment. In the November, 1995 issue of PLN we reported Fierro v. Gomez, 790 F. Supp. …
Washington Legislation Passed by The Washington legislature was in session for a mercifully short 60 day session between January and March, 1996. In that period several hundred anti-prisoner and anti-defendant bills were introduced, at a cost of $1,500 each. While several passed the legislature about half of those passed were …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Double Justice: A Documentary Film About Race and the Death Penalty by Double Justice: a Documentary Film About Race and the Death Penalty This is a 19 minute video tape produced by the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project. The film places the legal imposition of the death penalty in the US …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
State Murder Machine Picks Up by State Murder Machine Picks Up Speed Fifty-six people were executed by sixteen states in 1995. That was the highest national figure since 1957. As usual, Texas led the nation with 19 executions in 1995. Since the supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Spain and Belgium Abolish the Death Penalty by As the U.S. increases the number of people it murders each year the trend in favor of state-sanctioned murder is ebbing elsewhere. Fifty-five countries around the world have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, fifteen others have abolished it for social …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Jurors Challenge Tennessee Constitution by Two prospective jurors who were excluded from capital trials in Tennessee because of their religious objections to the death penalty have filed a temporary injunction against the state, charging that barring them violates the state constitution. They cite Article I, Section 6 of the document, …
Lethal Gas Execution Cruel and Unusual by Dale Gardner Derek Humphry, President of the Hemlock Society, and Judge Marilyn Hall Patel have differing views on the virtues of inhaling lethal gas. Humphry, in his how-to-suicide-it manual Final Exit, recommends the use of potassium cyanide as a quick and "humane", although …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
South Africa Bans Death Penalty by On June 6, 1995, the Constitu tional Court of South Africa issued a ruling banning capital punishment in that country. The court was established earlier this year to interpret South Africa's new constitution, the first to guarantee equal rights for all citizens. During the …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Police Chiefs Scoff at Death Penalty by A poll of randomly selected 386 police chiefs in the US found that most believed the death penalty does nothing to deter crime. The poll found that only one percent of the police chiefs believed the death penalty should be a primary focus …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Live From Death Row by David Gilbert by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Review by David Gilbert) "Perhaps we can shrug off and shred some of the dangerous myths laid on our minds like a second skin--such as ... the 'right[s]' to a fair trial even. They're not rights -- they're privileges of …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
The Last Mile by Johnny "Byrd Dog" Byrd Sunday, March 13th, 1994, at 12:35 pm., exactly 35 hours and 26 minutes before my scheduled, state-sanctioned murder, the "Death Row Escort Squad" arrived at cell, saying "It's time Byrd Dog," "strip" said one. A number of men stood in front of …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
The Political Base of the Death Penalty by Monica Zucker The experiences of murder and punishment change enormously in different places and different times. All of us know that in our time the United States ranks very high in number of murders and prisoners, in length of incarceration, and in …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Correction on Clinton by I am writing about the article on page 11 of the October issue of PLN (Vol.5 No.10), "Bias in Military Death Penalty." While I agree with your prediction that Clinton will sign the death warrants [to execute military prisoners], your article stated, "As Governor of Arkansas, …
Death Penalty Sought for Kurdish Legislators by On August 3, 1994, the trial of eight Turkish Members of Parliament (MP) began in a special state security court in Ankara. Seven of the legislators are members of the now banned Democratic Party, one is an independent. They are charged with capital …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
IN Prisoner and Guard Executed by On December 8,1994, Gregory Resnover was executed by the state of Indiana. Governor Evan Bayh denied Resnover's request for clemency. Resnover was convicted and sentenced in 1984 for the 1980 killing of an Indianapolis police sergeant and in connection with the robbery and slaying …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Death Penalty Challenged by Philadelphia Public Defenders by Dale Gardner Philadelphia's Public Defenders, Bar Association and Institutional Law Project Committee challenged the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's death penalty this October (1994), filing legal challenges in 78 murder cases including their clients. The Defender Association of Philadelphia contends the law is "broadly …
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