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Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Precedential Settlement Eliminates Solitary Confinement on Pennsylvania’s Death Row by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has agreed to operate a Capital Case Unit (CCU) “as a general population unit that exclusively houses prisoners sentenced to death.” That change in conditions is part of …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Death Penalty Prosecution in Colorado Costs State Over $1.6 Million, Ends in Life Sentence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  After spending seven years and more than $1.6 million seeking the death penalty for a prisoner who killed a Colorado prison guard, prosecutors plea-bargained the case for a life sentence. …
Solitary Confinement for Former Death Row Prisoner Held Unconstitutional by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Connecticut federal district court held on August 27, 2019 that a former death row prisoner who was kept in solitary confinement had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. The court issued …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Project Hope Fights to End the Death Penalty ... from Death Row by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The executive director of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Esther Brown, is a former psychiatric social worker who has been called “the most loyal person I’ve ever met” by a …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Fourth Circuit Agrees Virginia’s Death Row Conditions Violated Eighth Amendment by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Almost 120 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the harm that solitary confinement causes. Prior to 2015, prisoners on Virginia’s death row were housed in solitary in 71-square-foot cells (about the size of …
Article • December 9, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Local Taxpayers Face Higher Taxes, Crime Rates Due to Death Penalty Trials by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Taxpayers in Texas counties where death penalty cases are held get hit with a double whammy: Not only do they face higher property taxes to pay for the trials, they also have …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Federal Prisoner Challenges Constitutionality of Death Penalty; Gets Plea Deal for Life Without Parole by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 28, 2018, a Vermont federal judge approved a plea bargain to grant life without parole to a death-sentenced federal prisoner who had challenged the constitutionality of the death …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Florida Supreme Court Issues Death Penalty Rulings by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The final two weeks of 2018 were extremely busy for Florida’s Supreme Court with respect to capital punishment jurisprudence. Florida codefendants Gerald Murray and Steven Taylor were convicted in separate trials for capital murder and sentenced to …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Virginia Death Row Conditions Subjected Prisoners to Risk of Harm by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2019, the Fourth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s order that found the conditions of confinement on Virginia’s death row violated the Eighth Amendment. The appellate court …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
U.S. Department of Justice Plans to Ramp up Federal Death Penalty by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Attorney General William P. Barr has paved the way to restart the “machinery of death,” in the words of former Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, in the form of capital punishment on …
Author John Grisham Pens Editorial Criticizing Death Penalty in North Carolina by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On October 11, 2018, world-famous author and attorney John Grisham published an editorial in a North Carolina newspaper regarding capital punishment in that state. “Today, there are 141 people on North Carolina’s death …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Dr. Arthur Zitrin, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate and Bioethicist, Dies at 101 by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Dr. Arthur Zitrin died at age 101 on May 11, 2019. He was a psychiatrist and leading bioethicist who believed that doctors should take no part in lethal injections. His son Richard, an …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Texas Bans All Clergy from Death Chamber after Supreme Court Stays Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Texas prisoner Patrick H. Murphy on March 28, 2019, based upon his challenge to a prison policy that effectively allowed only Christian …
Supreme Court Again Prevents Texas from Executing Intellectually Disabled Prisoner by In an unusual case where prosecutors sided with the defense and the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court crossed sides, convicted Texas murderer Bobby James Moore has again been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore not a candidate for …
Texas: Prosecutorial Misconduct May Stymie Death Sentence by On October 26, 2006, Paul David Storey, then 21, and his accomplice, Mark Devayne Porter, robbed Putt Putt Golf & Games, a miniature golf course in Fort Worth, Texas. During the course of the robbery they shot and killed assistant manager James …
Alabama DOC Refuses Muslim Spiritual Adviser in Execution Chamber by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray, 42, was put to death by lethal injection at Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility on February 7, 2019, after his request to have his Muslim spiritual adviser, Imam Yusef Maisonet, …
The Next Step - Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes, 2019 The Next Step Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject instagram.com/endlifeimprisonment This report was written by Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Settlement in Lawsuit Against Missouri DOC’s Selection of Execution Witnesses by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Christopher McDaniel, an investigative journalist for BuzzFeed News, sued the director of the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) for maintaining a policy of selecting witnesses for executions that constructively denied applicants based on their …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Arkansas DOC Director’s Sole Discretion to Determine Competency for Execution Violates Due Process by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Arkansas Supreme Court held that a state law granting the corrections director sole discretion to determine if a prisoner is competent to be executed violates state and federal due process …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Ohio Governor Commutes Death Sentences, Grants Reprieves for Another by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As a child, Raymond Tibbetts lived a life straight out of a movie – a horror movie. He and his brothers were bounced from one foster home to another. Along their journey to adulthood, they …
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