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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 …
Article • February 11, 2019
‘I Didn’t Lay Down’: How A California Man Convicted Of Murder May Have Saved His Own Life by Maura Ewing Death penalty mitigation offers juries a chance to see defendants in a different light by Maura Ewing, The Appeal The odds were stacked against Ernesto Martinez. Last fall, he was on …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Ninth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief for Ineffective Assistance of Resentencing Counsel by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted habeas relief to an Arizona death row prisoner based on ineffective assistance of counsel at resentencing.  Michael Ray White was manipulated by …
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Challenges, Secrecy Continue to Surround Use of Lethal Injection Drugs by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Through December 31, 2018, there have been 1,490 executions in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. Almost 90 percent have been carried out by lethal injection, which is considered more …
Article • January 8, 2019
Secret Settlement Resolves Unlikely Lawsuit Against Northwestern Innocence Project by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a strange twist to a case that eventually led to the abolishment of the death penalty in Illinois, Northwestern University’s Innocence Project and other defendants have settled on undisclosed terms a $40 million federal …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Report on Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania Released; Moratorium Continues by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In June 2018, a death penalty task force commissioned by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly in 2012 finally released its report. Finding that neither judicial economy nor fairness is served – because 97 percent of all …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Alabama Prisoner in Failed Execution Attempt will Not Face Another by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In March 2018, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed not to set another execution date for death row prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm. The settlement resolved a lawsuit that followed a failed attempt …
Article • November 7, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Defense Investigator Jailed for Initially Refusing to Testify in Death Penalty Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Greta Lindercrantz, 67, was jailed for contempt of court by Arapahoe County, Colorado District Judge Michelle Amico on February 26, 2018. Lindercrantz, a Mennonite defense investigator, had refused to testify in a …
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