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Actual Innocence--Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Roger Hummel By Barry Scheck, Peter Nuefeld, and Jim Dwyer Review by Roger Hummel Since 1963, at least 381 murder convictions across the nation have been reversed because of police or prosecutorial misconduct yet not one of …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
First Federal Execution Postponed by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne Federal authorities announced on July 6, 2000, a plan to delay the execution of Juan Raul Garza, previously scheduled for August 5, 2000. Garza was convicted in 1993 in Brownsville, TX, of ordering three drug-related murders, for which he denies …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV by Janet Stanton AMERICA BEHIND BARS, video series from Deep Dish TV Review By Janet Stanton No society since Nazi Germany has built so many prisons in such a short time. Each of those prisons is a school or a hospital …
Another Texas Prison System Lockdown-Politics as Usual? by by Matthew T. Clarke For the second time in two years, the entire Texas prison system was locked down in a delayed response to isolated incidents in two Texas prisons, once again raising the specter of political motivation for the lockdown. The …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Defiant Texas Death Row Activist Executed by On March 15, 2000, the state of Texas killed Kamau (Ponchai) Wilkerson. He proved to be a fighter to the end. Kamau was among seven Texas death row prisoners who stunned the world with a bold escape attempt on Thanksgiving Day 1998 [See: …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
My Statement in Response to the State by by Kamau "Ponchai" Wilkerson [The following is an excerpt from "My Statement in Response to the Setting of an Execution Date and the State of Texas' Plan to Murder Me," by Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson] The 13th Amendment abolished slavery "...except as punishment …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Oregon Execution Viewing Rules Invalidated by The Oregon Supreme Court invalidated several administrative rules of the Oregon Department of Corrections, (ODOC), regarding the witnessing of executions. The Court held that the challenged rules exceeded the ODOC's rulemaking authority. The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and several other members of the media …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Louisiana Prosecutors Have "Ties" to Murder by Gary Hunter Lawrence Jacobs Jr. was on trial for first degree murder in Jefferson Parish Louisiana when an assistant district attorney approached him and whispered "We're going to hang you boy." Lawrence Jacobs Sr., who was only in the courtroom to support his …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Illinois Governor Announces Death Penalty Moratorium by Citing a "shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row", Illinois governor George Ryan announced a halt to state executions. The January 31 announcement marked the first such moratorium in the U.S. The Nebraska Legislature passed a moratorium on …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Texas Death Row Hunger Strike by Scores of death row prisoners in Texas kicked off the new millennium with a planned 21-day hunger strike over intolerable conditions of confinement. As many as 100 death row prisoners as well as hundreds of other ad-seg prisoners participated in the hunger strike, according …
International Perspectives on the Death Penalty by Julia Lutsky Review by Julia Lutsky The United States is finding itself increasingly isolated by its intransigence with respect to the death penalty. At a time when the rest of the world is moving toward eradication of this barbaric practice, the United States …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Flight to Texas Execution 'Not Life Threatening' by Texas prisoner David Martin Long had a date with the nation's busiest executioner (who had already dispatched 31 souls in 1999) on Wednesday, December 8, 1999. But Long decided to go out on his own terms: prison guards found him unconscious from …
Four Florida Prison Guards Face Murder Charges by Nine guards from Florida State Prison's "X-Wing" were suspended while state law enforcement investigators probed their role in the July 17, 1999 beating death of X-Wing prisoner Frank Valdes [see page 1 of the October 1999 PLN]. On February 2, 2000, four …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
Drug Seizures Pay for Death Celebrations by In 1998 the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's Office shelled out $1,291.27 for steak dinners to celebrate three death penalty verdicts. The DA's office used money and other assets seized in drug arrests to bankroll the celebratory dinners at a local steak house. …
Valdes Murder Witness Exiled, Muzzled by On the cover of the October 1999 PLN was an article describing the July 9, 1999 beating death of "X-Wing" prisoner Frank Valdes at the hands of Florida State Prison (FSP) guards. The day of the killing Valdes' partner and fellow X-Wing prisoner William …
Insanity, Brutality and Fatality: Florida's X-Wing Marks the End of the Line by Dan Pens Upon the ranks of such as we, They enforce their mastery. And yet we bleed the same as they, The tie that binds us day to day. The public interest uppermost, So some say while …
Arkansas Department of Corruption Revealed by A career employee of the Arkansas Department of Correction was demoted from his position as warden of the state maximum security prison in January 1996, after he spoke out about corruption and lack of security in the prison. He sued the DOC and several …
Prisoners Have First Amendment Right to Private Conversations with Their Attorneys by Prisoners Have First Amendment Right to Private Conversations With Their Attorneys A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that prisoners have privacy and free speech rights to private conversations with their attorneys. Pennsylvania state prisoners incarcerated on death …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Washington Legislature Amends 35% Law, Again by Paul Wright RCW 72.09:480 was enacted in 1995 as part of House Bill (FIB) 2410, a massive prisoner bashing bill that unanimously passed the legislature that year. RCW 72.09.480 was slipped into HB 2010 with no public hearings, debate or notice. The law …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
They Killed a Man, Not a Number by David Hill [Editor's Note: South Carolina killed Andy Smith on December 18, 1998. He was the 500th person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Like a thousand other editors, I wanted to cover it. I asked …
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