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Death Blossoms by Mark Cook Review by Mark Cook Mumia Abu Jamal's Death Blossoms walks the reader through a hallway of mirrors reflecting the thoughts of a prisoner of conscience contending with the oppressive diversion of a death sentence. Death Blossoms evades the State's attempt to silence him. In an …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Speedy Death Penalty Provisions Enjoined in California by A federal district court in San Francisco enjoined the state of California from putting its death row prisoners onto a federal court habeas "fast track." In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported enactment of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
ABA Calls for Halt to Executions by In February, 1997, by a vote of 280 to 119, representatives of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates endorsed a report calling for a nationwide suspension of executions until the judicial process is overhauled. The report was offered jointly by the A.B.A.'s …
Texas Lawyers Unhappy About Conscription by In 1995 Congress cut funding for some twenty-odd regional death penalty resource centers, pro bono legal aid clinics which specialized in death penalty appeals. The Texas legislature halved the $4 million in state funds budgeted to pay for counsel in state capital appeals cases …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Execution Conflicts with Medical Ethics by David Nelson, a 51-year-old convicted murderer, was scheduled for execution in Alabama on December 8, 1996. A last-minute stay by the Alabama supreme court delayed the execution so that Nelson could donate a kidney to his brother, Louis Nelson, who lost a leg to …
New Triad by Pierre Duterte Some death row prisoners who have been executed attain celebrity. We have all heard about the Rosenbergs, Carryl Chessman's name comes to mind, Gary Gillmore also. But do you know Joseph Paul Jernigan? No? Come on, if I tell you CD-Rom disk ... Internet ... …
Gas Chamber Found Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that held the California gas chamber was an unconstitutional form of execution that violated the eighth amendment. In the November, 1995 issue of PLN we reported Fierro v. Gomez, 790 F. Supp. …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Washington Death Row Prisoners Get Habeas TRO by In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (habeas law). One of the new law's provisions is that it has an option whereby a state's death penalty cases can …
Washington Legislation Passed by The Washington legislature was in session for a mercifully short 60 day session between January and March, 1996. In that period several hundred anti-prisoner and anti-defendant bills were introduced, at a cost of $1,500 each. While several passed the legislature about half of those passed were …
Attorney Fees Awarded in Death Row Brutality Case by A federal district court in South Carolina awarded a prisoner's attorney $29,516.50 in attorney fees and $1,856.17 in costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Cecil Lucas is a death row prisoner in South Carolina. After becoming drunk and combative with …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Double Justice: A Documentary Film About Race and the Death Penalty by Double Justice: a Documentary Film About Race and the Death Penalty This is a 19 minute video tape produced by the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project. The film places the legal imposition of the death penalty in the US …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
State Murder Machine Picks Up by State Murder Machine Picks Up Speed Fifty-six people were executed by sixteen states in 1995. That was the highest national figure since 1957. As usual, Texas led the nation with 19 executions in 1995. Since the supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, …
Arizona Death Row Chain Gang Problems by In December, 1995, Arizona's governor Fife Symington launched a program placing death row prisoners on a chain gang working in the prison's vegetable garden [Reported in the March '96 issue of PLN]. According to an Arizona newspaper report there have been two violent …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Spain and Belgium Abolish the Death Penalty by As the U.S. increases the number of people it murders each year the trend in favor of state-sanctioned murder is ebbing elsewhere. Fifty-five countries around the world have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, fifteen others have abolished it for social …
No Specific Intent Required for 8th Amendment Claim by The ninth circuit has held that for prison guards to violate the eighth amendment's ban on excessive force they need only have an intent to cause harm and do not need an intent to harm a specific, individual prisoner. This right …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Forced Labor for Arizona Death Row Prisoners by On November 22, 1995, a memo was distributed to Arizona's 119 death row prisoners. The memo relays an order issued by DOC chief Sam Lewis. It states in part: "Arizona Revised Statute 31-151 gives the Director of Corrections authority to require that …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Jurors Challenge Tennessee Constitution by Two prospective jurors who were excluded from capital trials in Tennessee because of their religious objections to the death penalty have filed a temporary injunction against the state, charging that barring them violates the state constitution. They cite Article I, Section 6 of the document, …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Suspect Peppers in LA by Clay Huff I was reading through a few old PLNs and ran across an article on page 11, Vol. 5, No. 10, (Oct. 1994) concerning pepper gas [spray]. In 1992 prisoners here at Angola [LA] bucked work call after one section [of prisoner workers] was …
Lethal Gas Execution Cruel and Unusual by Dale Gardner Derek Humphry, President of the Hemlock Society, and Judge Marilyn Hall Patel have differing views on the virtues of inhaling lethal gas. Humphry, in his how-to-suicide-it manual Final Exit, recommends the use of potassium cyanide as a quick and "humane", although …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
TX Death Row Protest by On June 28, 1995, two wings of Texas death row prisoners demonstrated for an hour against a scheduled execution. The prisoners shouted, set fires and banged on the bars. The execution was stayed by a court order. One hundred prisoners have been executed in Texas …
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