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Article • September 15, 2009
Statute of Limitations Applicable in Method of Execution Actions by On November 24, 2008, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendants in a § 1983 action brought by Mississippi death-row prisoners Alan Walker, Paul Woodward and Gerald Holland (Plaintiffs). …
Article • September 15, 2009
Probation Revocation Documents not Testimonial Under Sixth Amendment by Following his December, 2006 conviction for capital murder, which resulted in a death sentence, Juan Ramon Meza Segundo filed a direct appeal listing 19 points of error, each of which were rejected on October 29, 2008, affirming his conviction and sentence. …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Highest Criminal Appeals Judge in Texas Faces Removal Hearing by by Matt Clarke On February 19, 2009, the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct charged Sharon “Killer” Keller, Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest court in Texas over criminal matters, with five disciplinary charges – including …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The U.S.A., by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Published by City Lights Publishers, ISBN 978-0-8728646-9-6; 286 Pages; $16.95 by Gary Hunter Prisoners helping prisoners with legal issues would not seem strange to most people. But the idea of prisoners protecting the U.S. constitution is a notion not …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
New Mexico Abolishes Death Penalty; Similar Efforts Fail in Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to …
Consent Decree Improving Conditions on Louisiana Death Row Terminated by A landmark 1990s consent decree improving conditions on death row has been terminated under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). In 1991, the warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of current and future …
State, Not County, Required to Pay Attorney Fees in Georgia Death Penalty Cases by On March 9, 2009, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s order holding the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (“Council”), in contempt for refusing to pay two defense lawyers in a death penalty case. The …
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 …
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