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Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu Jamal by Gary Hunter Seven Stories Press, 335 page paperback, $14.95 Review by Gary Hunter For nearly two decades Mumia Abu Jamal has defied the deathgrip of Pennsylvania's death row. For nearly two decades he has revealed secrets that our nation's most powerful leaders …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
The High Cost of Prosecuting Capital Crimes by As many local governments are discovering, there is a new twist on an old saying: Nothing is certain except the death penalty and higher taxesand the high cost of capital punishment. Quitman County in Mississippi raised taxes three times in the 1990s …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Organizing, Death Penalty
Lessons From the Law by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal For many jailhouse lawyers, the texts of court rulings are read with a close and rapt attention that would be the envy of any conscientious law professor. The writer knows one guy, who, after years of study of criminal …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
U.S. Supreme Court: No Death Penalty for Retarded; Juries Must Impose Death Sentence by David Zuckerman June was a good month for many death row prisoners. In Ring v. Arizona , 122 S.Ct. 2428 (2002) and Atkins v. Virginia , 122 S.Ct. 2242 (2002), the Supreme Court placed new and …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Death Row Prisoners Volunteer to Die by Late in 1997, Arizona began moving death row prisoners to a super-maximum security facility. There, they are held in small, separate cells for 23 hours a day with almost no interaction with other human beings. In Florida, prison officials recently added a mesh …
Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A state jury has acquitted three Florida prison guards in the murder of death row inmate Frank Valdes. The guards, Captain Timothy Thornton, Sgt. Jason P. Griffis, and Sgt. Charles A. Brown, were exonerated of …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
The Death Penalty in the U.S.A. -- Past, Present, and Future by Roger Hummel The Death Penalty in the U.S.A. - Past, Present, and Future Book Reviews by Roger Hummel Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House by Scott Christianson. New York University Press, New York. 184 pages (illustrated), $24.95, …
PLRA Constitutional, Most of Ruiz Relief Terminated in Texas Suit by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of the termination provisions of the PLRA, 18 U.S.C. § 3626. On remand, the district court terminated most of the relief previously ordered in the Ruiz case. This involves …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
World Court Upholds Foreigners' Right to Contact Their Embassies by Gerardo Valdez, a Mexican citizen who had been scheduled for execution this fall in Oklahoma, was granted an indefinite stay by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in September due to a recent decision from the International Court of Justice, …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Missouri and Benetton Settle Lawsuit Over Death Row Advertisements by On June 15, 2001, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon announced that Italian clothes making company Benetton had agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Missouri by paying $50,000 to a victims compensation fund. In February 2000, Nixon …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Junking the Jurors by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed&" U.S. Constitution, 6 th Amendment It has been …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Possibility of Life in Control Unit Doesn't Mitigate Death by Possibility of Life In Control Unit Doesn't Mitigate Death The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that the possibility of life imprisonment in a control unit is not a mitigating factor in a federal death penalty case. …
Ohio Death Row Prisoners Sue Over Last Words by An Ohio federal district court refused to dismiss a challenge to an Ohio policy prohibiting condemned prisoners from giving last statements. The Court also discussed the PLRA's administrative exhaustion requirements and mootness concerns. Ohio Death Row prisoner Fred Treesh and another …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Feds Tally the Death Penalty by In December, 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzed the United States' death penalty in a report titled "Capital Punishment 1999." It is an in-depth analysis of how the death penalty was applied in the United States in 1999, plus a preliminary execution report …
Two Louisiana Death Row Prisoners Freed by Three days after Christmas, 2000, Michael Ray Graham walked off death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. He was wearing a prison issue denim jacket and carried all of his worldly possessions in two manila envelopes tucked under one arm. After …
No Qualified Immunity for Illinois Visitor Strip Searches by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that Illinois prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip-searching prison visitors in the absence of any individualized suspicion that they were carrying contraband. Between 1995 and …
Texas Death Machine Faces Renewed Criticism by A report released October 16, 2000 by the Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit group that represents death row prisoners, concludes that "an intolerably high number of people are being sentenced to death [in Texas] and propelled through the appellate courts in a process …
Ninth Circuit Requires Evidentiary Review Before Terminating Old Consent Decree Under PLRA by by John E. Dannenberg The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's termination of prospective relief under two long-standing consent decrees at San Quentin State Prison and remanded with directions to hold …
Florida X-Wing Guard Acquitted in Valdes Beating by The first of five Florida State Prison guards to be tried in connection with the beating death of "XWing" prisoner Frank Valdes was acquitted by a jury in a rural county dominated by the state "corrections" industry. In the October 1999 PLN …
Death as a Salesman: Benneton Ad Campaign Comes to Death Row by Dan Pens By Dan Pens In January, 2000, Italian fashion conglomerate Benetton Group kicked off a worldwide "issue advocacy" ad campaign titled "Looking Death in the Face." The ads, featuring images of death row prisoners, sparked outrage among …
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