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Correction on Clinton

Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995

Filed under: Sentencing, Pardons/Clemency, Death Penalty

Correction on Clinton by I am writing about the article on page 11 of the October issue of PLN (Vol.5 No.10), "Bias in Military Death Penalty." While I agree with your prediction that Clinton will sign the death warrants [to execute military prisoners], your article stated, "As Governor of Arkansas, …

Death Penalty Sought for Kurdish Legislators

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Prisoners-International, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Death Penalty Sought for Kurdish Legislators by On August 3, 1994, the trial of eight Turkish Members of Parliament (MP) began in a special state security court in Ankara. Seven of the legislators are members of the now banned Democratic Party, one is an independent. They are charged with capital …

IN Prisoner and Guard Executed

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Death Penalty

IN Prisoner and Guard Executed by On December 8,1994, Gregory Resnover was executed by the state of Indiana. Governor Evan Bayh denied Resnover's request for clemency. Resnover was convicted and sentenced in 1984 for the 1980 killing of an Indianapolis police sergeant and in connection with the robbery and slaying …

Death Penalty Challenged by Philadelphia Public Defenders

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Public Defenders, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Death Penalty Challenged by Philadelphia Public Defenders by Dale Gardner Philadelphia's Public Defenders, Bar Association and Institutional Law Project Committee challenged the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's death penalty this October (1994), filing legal challenges in 78 murder cases including their clients. The Defender Association of Philadelphia contends the law is "broadly …

Prisoner Shot Dead

Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995

Filed under: Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Shootings, Death Row

Prisoner Shot Dead by On September 30, 1994, death row prisoner Timothy Pride was shot dead by San Quentin, California, prison guards after being involved in a fight with another prisoner. According to witnesses, Pride was backing away from the other prisoner when shot. A prison spokesperson justified the killing …

Limits on Contact Visits With Counsel Reversed

Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995

Filed under: Attorney Client, Death Row, Visiting, Attorney Visits

Limits on Contact Visits With Counsel Reversed by Lee Barnett is a California state prisoner on death row. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that prison officials had retaliated against him for filing civil rights suits against them; that he was denied contact visits with his attorney …

Death Penalty Deterrents?

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Death Penalty Deterrents? by Former California Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, in his book, Public Justice, Private Mercy, recounts how a plumber convicted of robbery was among the prisoners who built California's gas chamber at San Quentin. He helped to install it and watched test pigs die as the chamber's effectiveness …

Federal Crime Bill Passes

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Transfers, Police Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Sex Offender Registration, Tuberculosis, DNA Testing/Samples, Drug Testing, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Databases, Overcrowding, Education, Disclosure of Records, Consent Decrees, Limitations, Good Time, Three Strikes, Immigration, Death Penalty, Federal Legislation, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

Federal Crime Bill Passes by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the October and November, 1993, issues of PLN, I wrote articles about the "anti-crime" proposals that had been submitted in the US Congress by democrats and republicans, respectively. I predicted then the most repressive aspects of both proposals would …

Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA by Dan Pens In one week this September, six separate capital murder cases were being tried in Harris County, Texas, of which Houston is the main city. Some legal observers consider this to be a national record. "They may have done this in …

Fast Food Style Death Penalty Defense

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Attorney Misconduct, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Fast Food Style Death Penalty Defense by Harris County, Texas, which encompasses Houston, is the death-penalty capital of the U.S. [See: Houston, Death Penalty Capital of USA on page 15 of this issue]. What better place for a lawyer to develop and market the same techniques that made fast food …

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century (Book Review)

Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994

Filed under: Reviews, Prisoners-International, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century (Book Review) by Sandy Judd by Peter Linebaugh (Cambridge University Press, 1992) Review by Sandy Judd A title like The London Hanged might make a person think this is another book about death--an 18th century version of those true …

Bias in Military Death Penalty

Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Military Law

Bias in Military Death Penalty by The Vol. 5, No. 6, issue of PLN reported on studies showing the new federal death penalty was racially biased. A recent report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center notes that of the six men (three soldiers, two marines and an airman) awaiting …

Demanding Death

Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Demanding Death by Mumia Abu-Jamal By Mumia Abu-Jamal Michael Alan Durocher, of Florida's Death Row, wrote to the Governor, literally begging for death. Gov. Lawton Chiles agreed, signed his death warrant, and Durocher sent him a thank you note. On August 25, 1993, at 7:15 a.m., Durocher, 33, got his …

Art and Writings Against the Death Penalty / Save Mumia Abu Jamal

Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Art and Writings Against the Death Penalty / Save Mumia Abu Jamal by by Adrian Lomax Mumia Abu-Jamal learned early what happens to African Americans who speak their minds. In 1968, at the age of 16, Mumia and some of his friends marched in Philadelphia to protest the presidential candidacy …

The Death Penalty in Black and White

Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Victims, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

The Death Penalty in Black and White by Michael Ross By Michael Ross "[The] evidence shows that there is a better than even chance in Georgia that race will influence the decision to impose the death penalty: a majority of defendants in white-victim crimes would not have been sentenced to …

WA Initiative to Increase Gun Penalties

Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994

Filed under: Crime, Sentencing, Death Penalty, State Legislation

WA Initiative to Increase Gun Penalties by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The Washington Citizens for Justice are the right-wingers headed by Dave LaCourse, of the Public Policy Institute in Bellevue, WA; John Carlson, of KVI radio and Seattle Times columnist and Ida Ballasiotes, Republican state representative for Mercer Island. …

Fed Death Penalty Biased

Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

Fed Death Penalty Biased by In 1988 federal law was amended to allow for the execution of drug dealers who committed murder in the furtherance of their drug enterprises. Since the law came into effect the Justice Department has sought the death penalty in 37 cases. Of the 37 defendants …

Murder Incorporated

Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row

Murder Incorporated by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne The U.S. Bureau of Prisons recently designated the U.S. penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, as the facility at which prisoners sentenced to death by the federal courts will be housed until they are executed by lethal injection. The federal government has never …

Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Limited Contact Attorney Visits

Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994

Filed under: Retaliation for Litigating, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Death Row, Attorney Visits

Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Limited Contact Attorney Visits by This case involves a class action suit filed by Oklahoma death row prisoners and prisoners in the control unit of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The case provides a revealing look at the mentality driving the construction of control units. The …

FLA Death Penalty Games

Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993

Filed under: Public Defenders, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

FLA Death Penalty Games by Frank Valdez I'm in the midst of challenging the reappointment of a guy named Spalding to the Capital Collateral Representative (CCR) post of Florida (that's the state funded agency that handles collateral appeals for indigent capital/condemned prisoners). I'm still on direct appeal, but I feel …