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Article • June 15, 2009
COA Denied to Florida Prisoner Sentenced to Death for Killing Guard by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals entered a detailed opinion denying a certificate of appealability to a Florida prisoner sentenced to death for murdering a guard while sitting on death row awaiting execution for two other murders. Before …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
Cost of Defending Federal Death Penalty Cases on the Rise by Brandon Sample The cost of defending federal death penalty cases has increased sharply since 1998, according to a preliminary report by the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services. Congress first revived the federal death penalty in 1988, authorizing capital …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Washington’s Top Prison Doctor Resigns Over Executions; Entire Execution Team Later Quits Following PLN Records Request by Mark Wilson Washington’s Top Prison Doctor Resigns Over Executions; Entire Execution Team Later Quits Following PLN Records Request by Mark Wilson Washington State death row prisoner Darold Ray Stenson was scheduled for execution …
Texas Increasingly out of Step on Death Penalty by David C Fathi By David Fathi Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle May 23, 2009, 3:44PM Barring unexpected events, in the next few weeks Gov. Rick Perry of Texas will oversee his 200th execution since taking office in 2000. Perry has already allowed …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Executioner Banned in Missouri but Available for Hire Elsewhere by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A former Missouri prison doctor and participant in lethal injections, who was banned from performing executions in that state, is still for hire to conduct executions in other jurisdictions. With over 40 death sentences …
Article • May 15, 2009
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: No Time Limit on Rehearing of State Habeas by On February 6, 2008, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) held that there was no temporal limitation on its rehearing on the court's own motion of previously-decided state habeas corpus applications. Jose Angel Moreno, a …
Court Halts Missouri Physician-Overseen Lethal Injection Execution; Blows Doctor’s Cover by A “secret” Missouri surgeon who has supervised 54 prisoner executions had his cover pulled and suffered immediate peer criticism, court restriction, and a media barrage. In tension were the Hippocratic Oath of doctors to sustain the life of their …
Article • April 15, 2009
Federal Judge Orders Missouri To Amend Its Lethal Injection Protocol by The U.S. District Court ordered the state of Missouri to amend its lethal injection execution protocol to comport with Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual punishment standards. Missouri condemned prisoner Michael Taylor had challenged Missouri’s procedure to utilize a three-drug …
Conditions on Federal Death Row “Horrendous,” ACLU Finds by Brandon Sample The conditions of confinement on federal death row fall below minimum constitutional standards and jeopardize the lives and safety of condemned prisoners, according to an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The results of the ACLU’s investigation …
Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 20, 2008, Texas Governor Rick Perry placed all 112 prisons and 155,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on lockdown to search for …
Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty The torture …
Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners by Gary Hunter Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners by Gary Hunter In 1977, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens developed a technique called plastination. The process involves slicing open human cadavers, exposing or extracting the internal …
Article • March 15, 2009
32 Years on Death Row by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi When William Lee Thompson committed the murder that landed him on Florida's death row, Gerald Ford was president. Thompson has now been incarcerated for almost 33 years, most of it under sentence of death. He has spent …
Article • March 15, 2009
Executing the Innocent? by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi At 7 p.m. on September 23, the state of Georgia plans to execute Troy Anthony Davis. That by itself is unremarkable; Georgia has carried out 42 executions since 1983, including two since May of this year. What makes this …
Article • February 15, 2009
Why Does Pennsylvania Have the Death Penalty? Still Asking by Robert Zaller Dr. Robert Zaller, Professor of History, Drexel University March 6, my colleague Julia Hall and I moderated a symposium at Drexel's law school to address the question of Pennsylvania's death penalty. It pulled together a distinguished panel from …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Jose Medellin Executed; Vienna Convention Controversy Lives On by Matthew Clarke Jose Medellin Executed; Vienna Convention Controversy Lives On by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2008 at 9:48 p.m., the State of Texas began the lethal injection that ended the life of Jose E. Medellin. In doing so, it ignored …
Ohio Settles Actual Innocence Claim For $1,500,000 by Ohio and Ohio prosecuting officials settled a wrongful incarceration lawsuit by agreeing to pay $1,500,000 to a man who was imprisoned for 26 years after his conviction for a robbery and murder he did not commit. Gary James, 55, and his friend …
Article • January 15, 2009
Ashcroft, Justice Department Campaign to Expand Capital Punishment by by Michael Rigby During his four years as head of the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General John Ashcroft has led a sinister campaign to force the federal death penalty in states that have either abolished capital punishment or rarely impose it. …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Ohio Court Finds Three-Drug Execution Protocol Violates Prisoners’ State Rights by Ohio Court Finds Three-Drug Execution Protocol Violates Prisoners’ State Rights On June 10, 2008, Judge James J. Burge of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas has held that the three-drug protocol used by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Costs for San Quentin’s Proposed New Death Row Spiral Upward by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg As delays mount, San Quentin’s proposed replacement Death Row facility is growing in cost while shrinking in size. In a June 2008 report to the Governor and Legislature, the state Auditor’s office made …
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