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In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement by by Alyssa Stryker, Solitary Watch “When we were sentenced to death,” wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, “we weren’t sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept in solitary dungeons until the day …
California’s Broken Death Penalty System by Christopher Zoukis While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. …
Craft v. Robinson, OH, Settlement, Death Row Suicide, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION Lisa Craft, Administratrix of the Estate of Billy Slagle, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:14-CV-01682 Judge Donald C. Nugent v. Norman Robinson, et al., Defendants. Settlement Agreement and Release …
Publication • February 10, 2016
A Death Before Dying - Solitary Confinement on Death Row, ACLU, 2013 A Death Before Dying | 1 A Death Before Dying: Solitary Confinement on Death Row July 2013 A Death Before Dying | 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 4 TRAPPED IN A BROKEN SYSTEM ...................................................................................................... 4 PUNISHMENT ON …
Publication • February 8, 2016
Management of Death-Sentenced Inmates, Lombardi, Sluder & Wallance, 1996 The Management of Death-Sentenced Inmates: Issues, Realities, and Innovative Strategies* by George Lombardi, Former Director of the Division of Adult Institutions Missouri Department of Corrections P. O. Box 236 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Richard D. Sluder, Ph.D. Associate Professor Criminal Justice …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
Supreme Court Upholds Oklahoma’s Use of New Execution Drug by Derek Gilna Oklahoma death row prisoners filed a § 1983 civil rights lawsuit challenging the use of a new drug by prison officials to put them to death, but their effort fell short in the U.S. Supreme Court. The state …
Article • January 7, 2016
Filed under: Death Row
Alabama Prisoners Dying on Death Row, but by Natural Causes by David Reutter by David Reutter Prisoners are sent to death row to die for their crimes.  The shortages of drugs used for lethal injection has delayed executions, resulting in many death row prisoners dying from natural cases or suicide.  …
Brief • December 3, 2015
State Board of Pharmacy v. Johnson, OK, Order, Apothecary Shoppe execution drugs, 2016
Brief • November 13, 2015
State Board of Pharmacy v. Johnson, OK, Complaint, Apothecary Shoppe execution drugs, 2016 BEFORE THE STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY STATE OF OKLAHOMA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINTAGAINST: ) ) David Kent Johnson, D.Ph. #13429 ) 13405 E 91st St N Owasso, OK 74055-2657 ) ) Case No. I3'7'7 COMPLAINT …
Article • November 2, 2015
Texas Supreme Court Holds No Compensation for Wrongly-Convicted Prisoner Imprisoned on Other Charges by Matthew Clarke Texas Supreme Court Holds No Compensation for Wrongly-Convicted Prisoner Imprisoned on Other Charges by Matt Clarke On August 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a former death row prisoner who had …
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Soldiers Sentenced to Die, but No Executions on Military Death Row Since 1961 by Joe Watson Soldiers Sentenced to Die, but No Executions on Military Death Row Since 1961 by Joe Watson The guilty verdict and death sentence handed down on August 28, 2013 against U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik …
Article • October 19, 2015
Filed under: Appeals, Death Row
Oklahoma Death Row Prisoners Lose Appeal by Oklahoma Death Row Prisoners Lose Appeal The Oklahoma Supreme Court, on April 23, 2014, affirmed in part, reversed in part, and dissolved a stay of execution shielding two condemned prisoners from a death by lethal injection sentence. Appellants Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner …
Article • October 19, 2015
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Holds Forcible Medication for Death Row Prisoner Unauthorized by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Holds Forcible Medication for Death Row Prisoner Unauthorized On September 11, 2013, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a trial court lacked authority under the competency-to-be-executed statute, Texas Code …
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Prison Reform, Death Row
Texas Prison Guard Union Urges Death Row Reforms by Christopher Zoukis Texas Prison Guard Union Urges Death Row Reforms by Christopher Zoukis In a move that surprised many in the prison reform community, the president of the local chapter of a Texas prison guards’ union wrote a letter to the …
Automatic Placement of Death Row Prisoner in Segregation Does Not Violate Due Process by David Reutter Automatic Placement of Death Row Prisoner in Segregation Does Not Violate Due Process by David M. Reutter A Virginia federal district court held in November 2013 that automatic and indefinite placement of a death-sentenced …
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Automatic Oregon Death Row Confinement Pending Resentencing Enjoined by Mark Wilson Automatic Oregon Death Row Confinement Pending Resentencing Enjoined by Mark Wilson On October 10, 2014, an Oregon federal judge enjoined prison officials from automatically segregating death sentenced prisoners who have had their sentences vacated and are awaiting resentencing. Oregon …
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
Kentucky Death Row Prisoners Win Appeal on Religious Accommodations by Derek Gilna Kentucky Death Row Prisoners Win Appeal on Religious Accommodations by Derek Gilna On August 15, 2014, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of five death row prisoners in Kentucky who sued the director of the …
Brief • October 10, 2014
Filed under: Classification, Death Row
Fanus v ODOC, OR, Order Granting PI , falsely housed on Death Row, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF OREGON JESSE FANUS, Plaintiff, 6:14-cv-00935-AA v. ORDER JEFF PREMO, Defendant. AIKEN, District Judge. Plaintiff, an inmate in the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), filed a complaint under …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Brady Violations Result in Habeas Relief for Pennsylvania Death Row Prisoner by David Reutter Brady Violations Result in Habeas Relief for Pennsylvania Death Row Prisoner by David Reutter To correct a “grave miscarriage of justice,” Pennsylvania U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody granted a writ of habeas corpus to a …
Brief • June 4, 2014
Prieto v. Clarke, AZ, Aimicus Brief for Appellee, Death Row Conditions, 2014 Appeal: 13-8021 Doc: 36-1 Filed: 06/04/2014 Pg: 1 of 44 Nos. 13-8021, 14-6226 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ALFREDO PRIETO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HAROLD C. CLARKE, et al., Defendants-Appellants. On Appeal from the …
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