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Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Constitutional Amendment Ensures Executions will Continue in Oklahoma by Christopher Zoukis Despite a number of botched executions in recent years – which drew widespread criticism for subjecting condemned prisoners to cruel lethal injection practices – Oklahomans have voted to add a provision to the state constitution enshrining and ensuring the …
Too Little, Too Late: Prosecutor Remorseful for Sending Innocent Man to Death Row by David Reutter The district attorney who prosecuted Glenn Ford, a Louisiana man exonerated after spending 30 years on death row, called capital punishment “an abomination that continues to scar the fibers of this society.” That statement …
Prominent Texas Capital Defense Attorney Suspended for a Year by David Dow has near-legendary status among death penalty attorneys in Texas. He works pro bono for clients whose lives literally depend on him; he takes their cases after they arrive on death row, often seeking to right the wrongs committed …
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty Moratorium by David Reutter Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in early 2015; predictably, the move was lauded by opponents of capital punishment and despised by those in favor of the death penalty. State prosecutors petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme …
Article • October 27, 2016
Missouri Not Required to Disclose Identity of Doctor or Pharmacy Who Provide Drugs for Lethal Injections by Lonnie Burton In an 8-3 decision following an en banc hearing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that the state of Missouri does not have to disclose the names …
Article • October 14, 2016
Ohio Supreme Court: Inference of Motive Justifies Death by Mark Wilson The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of a man who was sentenced to death by a three-judge panel on a mere inference of motive. David Williams, Nicholas Wiskur and Robin Patterson entered into a failed Ohio business …
Federal Death Penalty Case in Georgia Unravels, Triggering Investigation of Prosecutors by Derek Gilna A rare federal death penalty case in Georgia failed, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and derailed the careers of two federal prosecutors, both of whom are no longer employed by the U.S. Attorney's Office …
Publication • September 9, 2016
So Long as They Die – Lethal Injections in the United States, HRW, 2006 April 2006 Volume 18, No. 1(G) So Long as They Die Lethal Injections in the United States Summary......................................................................................................................................... 1 Recommendations......................................................................................................................... 7 To State and Federal Corrections Agencies.......................................................................... 7 To State Legislators and the U.S. Congress .......................................................................... …
Publication • September 9, 2016
Broken Justice: The Death Penalty in Alabama, ACLU, 2005 A n A C LU R e p o r t Broken Justice: The Death Penalty in Alabama Published October 2005 THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION is the nation’s premier guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Death Penalty Case Reveals Morgue Worker Had Sex with 100 Female Corpses by In another development in the macabre murder, rape and death penalty case of convicted killer David Steffen, a former Hamilton County, Ohio morgue worker admitted to engaging in sex with around 100 female corpses. Kenneth Douglas acknowledged …
Oklahoma DOC Creates “Dream Team” for Botched Executions with Hires from Arizona by Joe Watson If Oklahoma was hoping to establish a tradition or trend of botched executions, it brought in the right people to carry them out. Just days after overseeing a disturbing execution at Arizona’s Florence prison complex …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Despite Initial Approval, Belgian Prisoner Denied Euthanasia by Derek Gilna Belgian prisoner Frank Van Den Bleeken, who in 1989 raped and killed Christiane Remacle, a student from Antwerp, was sentenced to life and has spent over 30 years in prison. Most European countries, unlike the United States, have abolished the …
Publication • September 1, 2016
Capital Punishment Update, Vogel, 2004 MONTHLY REVIEW AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST MAGAZINE 2004 › Volume 56, Issue 07 (December) › Capital Punishment Update Capital Punishment Update by Richard D. Vogel Following a short hiatus in the 1970s, capital punishment has regained its position as the most reactionary social policy in America. …
McDaniel v. Lombard, MO, complaint, denied being witness to execution, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI CENTRAL DIVISION Christopher S. McDaniel, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. George Lombardi, in his official capacity as Director of the Missouri …
Article • August 25, 2016
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Speedy Death Penalty Law by On June 12, 2014, the Supreme Court of Florida held for the state in a constitutional challenge of the state's Timely Justice Act (the Act) of 2013, weighed by death row prisoners. Seeking to expand Allen v. Butterworth, 756 So. 2d …
Article • August 19, 2016
Eighth Circuit Denies Stay of Execution Pending Appeal Over Execution Drug by On October 30, 2015, the Eighth Circuit court of appeals denied Missouri death row prisoner Ernest Johnson a stay pending appeal of his challenge to the type of drug being used to execute prisoners in Missouri. Johnson underwent …
Article • August 10, 2016
Missouri Uses Execution Drug despite DOC Director's Denials Of Plans to Use by Christopher Zoukis Missouri's nine most recent executions have been carried out by killing prisoners with Midazolam, a drug that the state's Director of the Department of Corrections has stated in a sworn deposition that it had no …
Article • August 10, 2016
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Federal Judge Voids California Death Penalty Law that “Serves No Penological Purpose” by Derek Gilna The State of California’s criminal justice system, which in recent years has received increasing scrutiny from the federal courts for what it termed numerous constitutional violations, received yet another setback in a recent federal judge’s …
Article • August 10, 2016
Use of Death Penalty Trending Downwards by In its year-end report, the Washington, D.C., based Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) reported that there were 43 executions and 78 new death sentences in 2012, continuing a generally downward trend that began in the mid-1990s. As of April 1, 2012, there were …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement, IHRA, 2010 Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement Rick Lines, Damon Barrett and Patrick Gallahue © 2010 International Harm Reduction Association ISBN 978-0-9566116-0-4 This report was produced by the Human Rights Programme …
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