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Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Fall Escapes Plague Local, State Agencies in Houston Area by by Michael Rigby During a two week period in late 2005, prisoners in the Houston area escaped from all levels of custody. One prisoner escaped from the city jail, another vanished from the back of a prison van, and a …
Georgia Prisons: A Blight On The Peach State by Michael Rigby During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Shermans devastating march through the South was a blight on Georgia and all who lived there. Today, the safety of many Georgians particularly the 50,000 confined in the states 37 prisons is …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
President Bush Orders Compliance With World Court Order, Withdraws From Optional Protocol by by Matthew T. Clarke President Bush has ordered the states to comply with a March 2004 decision of the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court. In that decision the World Court ruled that …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's New Governor Has Paroled 102 Lifers, But Rejected Twice That Many by The good news is that as of September 30, 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved 102 lifers for parole since taking office two years ago, a vast improvement over former Governor Gray Davis' record of paroling …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Lethal Injection Painful, Study Suggests; U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Issue by by Michael Rigby Hundreds of prisoners killed by lethal injectionthe preferred method of execution in 37 states and the federal Bureau of Prisonsmay have suffered agonizing deaths due to a routine failure to administer enough anesthesia, according to …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase by Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase Shackling Violates the Due Process In a 7-to-2 decision that Justices Thomas and Scalia criticized as shunning common sense and risk[ing] the lives of courtroom personnel, with little corresponding benefit to defendants," the United States Supreme Court held that …
Bringing Down The Brotherhood by by Alan Prendergast Inside the feds' war on the deadliest prison gang: 16 murders. 21 death-penalty cases. Snitches galore. A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
U.S. Finally Outlaws Execution of Children by by Marjorie Cohn Today, the Court repudiated the misguided idea that the United States can pledge to leave no child behind while simultaneously exiling children to the death chamber. Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International Until March 1, 2005, the United …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Report Details General Decline In Death Penalty Statistics For 2003 by Michael Rigby For most of the nation, 2003 was a year of declining death penalty statistics. That year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, the number of death sentences imposed fell to a 30-year low, while …
Article • October 15, 2005
Certain Blood for Uncertain Reasons: Reinstating Capital Punishment in Vermont by by Michael Mello Seventeen winters ago, a man I loved as a father was murdered. A few days before Christmas 1989, a racist coward with a grudge mailed a shoebox- sized bomb to federal appellate Judge Robert S. Vance. …
Article • October 15, 2005
Flashbacks: Vietnam And Capital Punishment by by Michael Mello Professor of Law Vermont Law School Capital punishment in our time has always reminded me of the Vietnam war. Certain blood for uncertain reasons," as Tim O'Brien wrote of his war. The only measure of success was the body count. No …
North Carolina Prosecutors Reprimanded For Intentionally Withholding Crucial Exculpatory Evidence in Capital Case by by Matthew T. Clarke Alan Gell cried recently after a North Carolina State Bar panel issued a mere reprimand, the least discipline possible, to two former prosecutors who withheld evidence in his capital murder case. "Here …
Habeas Hints by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (in pro per). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs …
Fatal Justice: The New Maryland by Michael Rigby It's a state already steeped in heritage--birthplace of The Star Spangled Banner, home to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and site of the bloody Civil War battle at Antietam. But now Maryland is raising a new legacy: a system of dangerous …
Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years by Michael Rigby Award-winning prison journalist and civil rights figure Wilbert Rideau, once described as “the most rehabilitated prisoner in America,” is free after spending more than four decades behind bars. Ironically, Rideau’s freedom came not from being exonerated, but from being found …
Court Holds Temperatures on Florida's Death Row Constitutional; Class Action Exhaustion Explained by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Florida District Court's order denying that prisoners' cell temperatures on Florida's death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment. This civil rights action was …
Maricopa County, Arizona, Settles Wrongful Imprisonment Suit For $1.4 Million by On April 6, 2005, a man falsely imprisoned for a decade on Arizona's death row settled with Maricopa County for $1.4 million. Ray Krone, once dubbed the snaggletooth" killer, was sentenced to death in 1992 based on testimony that …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure by U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure In an extremely limited," unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court held that an Alabama death row prisoner properly utilized 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge a …
Ohio Supermax Placement is Atypical & Significant Hardship; Supreme Court Grants Review by Ohio Supermax Placement is Atypical & Significant Hardship; Supreme Court Grants Review By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that Ohio state prisoners have a liberty interest under the …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Ohio Death Row Moving to Supermax by Bob Williams By Bob Williams In March 2005, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) announced that Ohio’s 193 death row prisoners would be moved from the Mansfield Correctional Institute (MCI) to the state’s Supermax facility, the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP), to …
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