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Publication • January 25, 2014
Filed under: Death Row
Advocacy Letters on TDCJ's Death Row Plan Revision, 2014 January 27, 2014 Brad Livingston Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice P.O. Box 99 Huntsville, TX 77342-0099 FAX: 936-437-2123 Bryan Collier Deputy Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice P.O. Box 99 Huntsville, TX 77342-0099 FAX: 936-437-2123 Oliver Bell Chairman, …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Hidden Agenda Fuels Challenge to Pivotal Death Penalty Case by David Protess Anthony Porter, the exonerated death row prisoner whose jubilant release from prison in February 1999 was the catalyst for abolishing the death penalty in Illinois, is back in the news after living in relative obscurity for years. A …
Brief • January 15, 2014
Craft v. Robinson, OH, Complaint, Death Row Suicide, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION LISA CRAFT, individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of BILLY SLAGLE, 7015 Westlake Ave. Parma, OH 44129 CASE NO. JUDGE And CASEY LOPEZ 2129 West 83rd Street Cleveland, OH, 44102 …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Death Row Prisoners in Two States File Suit over Hip Replacements by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The fact that prisoners have a constitutional right to adequate medical care under the Eighth Amendment has long been established. Since the U.S. Supreme Court made that pronouncement in Estelle v. Gamble, …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Solitary Confinement for Death Row Prisoners a Blot on U.S. Justice System by Derek Gilna Although more and more states have abolished the death penalty in recent years, with six states doing away with capital punishment since 2007, the death penalty still has strong support in certain elements of society, …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Muslim Prisoners Challenge Ohio’s Denial of Halal Meals; Pork Producers Protest by Joe Watson In 2011, Abdul-Hamead Awkal, II, 52, and Cornelius Causey, 35, both Muslim prisoners, filed separate lawsuits against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), arguing that the ODRC’s refusal to provide halal meals infringed on …
Article • May 15, 2013
North Carolina Court Dismisses Petition for Judicial Review and Upholds Execution Protocol by North Carolina Department of Corrections' death row prisoners petitioned the Superior Court of North Carolina for judicial review of the Council of State's approval of an execution protocol order under G.S. 15-188 that would be carried out …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Texas Abolishes Last Meals for Death Row Prisoners, Reduces Weekend Meals by Matthew Clarke Texas served its final last meal to condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer, who, on September 21, 2011, was executed for the infamous racially-motivated 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. Brewer requested an extensive last meal …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Death Sentences, Executions Remain at Low Levels by Justin Miller According to a report released by the Death Penalty Information Center last December, there were 78 new death sentences imposed in 2011, down significantly from 104 in 2010 and the fewest new death sentences since capital punishment was reinstated in …
Article • May 15, 2012
Alabama Condemned Prisoner Commits Suicide with Unknown Object by An Alabama prisoner on death row killed himself with an unknown object. In 2005, Jason Jones, 29, was convicted of the 2004 beating and stabbing deaths of his parents, Nancy and Dr. Tim Jones, in their Monroeville, Alabama residence. "I am …
Brief • March 6, 2012
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
Powell v. Miller, Complaint, Death Penalty, 2012 Case 5:10-cv-01294-D Document 53 Filed 03/06/12 Page 1 of 28 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA PAR IS La PRIE ST P OW ELL , ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) Case No. C IV-2010-129 4-D …
Brief • November 8, 2011
Filed under: Death Row
Presley v. Epps, MS, Motion for Attorney Fees, Death Row Conditions, 2011 Case: 4:05-cv-00148-DAS Doc #: 148 Filed: 11/08/11 1 of 47 PageID #: 1236 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI GREENVILLE DIVISION JEFFERY PRESLEY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. No. 4:05-CV-00148 CHRISTOPHER EPPS, et …
Article • August 15, 2011
California’s Death Row: More Suicides Than Executions by Since California’s death penalty was reestablished in 1978, only 13 condemned prisoners have been executed. But in that same period, 38 have died of natural causes while another 14 have committed suicide. In spite of updated suicide prevention procedures, on June 10, …
Brief • May 19, 2011
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
Douglas v. Miller, Complaint, Death Penalty, 2011 Case 5:10-cv-01295-D Document 30 Filed 05/19/11 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA YANCEY LYNDELL DOUGLAS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) (1) ROBERT BRADLEY MILLER, ) individually, (2) ROBERT BRADLEY ) …
Article • April 15, 2011
California: Right of Self-Representation May Be Restricted but Not Denied Based on Jailhouse Security Concerns by In a 5-2 decision, the California Supreme Court reversed the conviction and sentence of death imposed on a defendant who, while on capital trial for murdering two college students (see: People v. Butler (2009) …
Article • April 15, 2011
Homosexual Literature Allowed on Death Row by On March 30, 1999, a Louisiana Magistrate filed his recommendation in a suit filed by death row prisoner George Brooks, Jr., against Louisiana's DOC. The complaint alleged First Amendment violations in regard to five sexually explicit books confiscated from him by the mailroom …
Article • February 15, 2011
Gang Validation - The New Inquisition by Steve Champion On July 23, 2010, my cell was searched and three boxes of my property (legal material, books, notes, and personal writings) were confiscated and turned over to Institutional Gang Investigations (I.G. I.) for possible gang validation. The reason for the action, …
Mississippi DOC Closes Unit 32 by A settlement agreement was reached in June 2010 to close the notorious Unit 32 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. The agreement provides for the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged conditions at the supermax unit. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Filed under: Death Row, Visiting
Georgia Ends Contact Visits for Death Row Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three non-execution deaths on Georgia’s death row in as many months, including two suicides, resulted in a focus on conditions for condemned prisoners at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. The response by prison officials …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Death Row Prisoner Loses Suit Challenging BOP’s Ban on Face-to-Face Media Interviews by On January 15, 2008, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jury could conclude the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) ban on face-to-face media interviews with death row prisoners was based not on legitimate security threats, …
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