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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Capital Punishment
Second South Carolina Prisoner Executed by Firing Squad by A South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) firing squad executed state prisoner Mikal Mahdi on April 11, 2025. It was the state’s second execution conducted by shooting a prisoner to death. In the first, five weeks earlier, a DOC rifle squad …
No Opened Envelopes: Hawai’i Prisons Get New Mail Scanning Technology by The Hawai’i Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) announced in September 2024 that it would purchase nine machines to scan inbound prisoner mail—including legal mail—for drugs. The new scanners claim to detect letters soaked with drugs without opening envelopes. …
Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke. Condemned Texas prisoner Scott Louis Panetti, 65, was taken off the state’s death row on September 27, 2023, when the federal court for the Western District of Texas found him too insane to kill—or as …
Louisiana Supreme Court Springs Prisoner From Death Row by Condemned Louisiana prisoner Darrell Robinson got off death row on January 26, 2024, when the state supreme court found his 2001 trial was tainted and granted a new one. Robinson, 55, was the only one of 57 state prisoners awaiting execution …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Eleventh Circuit Refuses to Reimpose Death Sentence for Intellectually Disabled Alabama Prisoner by Over two decades ago, in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) barred capital punishment for intellectually disabled prisoners—typically those with an IQ of 70 or below. Courts still wrestle …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Champion of Death Row Prisoners Accused of Spoiling Oklahoman’s Clemency by When Oklahoma prisoner Anthony Sanchez, 44, was executed on September 21, 2023, for the 1996 killing of University of Oklahoma dance student Juli Busken, Rev. Jeff Hood was by his side. But the attorneys that Sanchez had by then …
Brief • May 16, 2023
Anderson v Grayson County, TX, Complaint, Failure to Appoint Counsel, 2023 Case 4:23-cv-00439 Document 1 Filed 05/16/23 Page 1 of 18 PageID #: 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION CHAZDON ANDERSON, Plaintiff, v. GRAYSON COUNTY; HON. JAMES P. FALLON, in his official capacity …
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Unconstitutional Statute Authorizing Forcible Medication of Involuntarily Committed Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 10, 2020, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held unconstitutional a statute permitting an involuntarily committed prisoner to be forcibly medicated without a court finding that the prisoner was dangerous. …
Brief • May 3, 2019
Memorandum Opinion for the Attorney General, Steven A. Engle, FDA Jurisdiction, over Articles Intended for Executions, 2019 (Slip Opinion) Whether the Food and Drug Administration Has Jurisdiction over Articles Intended for Use in Lawful Executions May 3, 2019 Articles intended for use in executions carried out by a State or …
Brief • February 23, 2018
Magana v. Iowa, IA, Appeal, Post-Conviction Relief, 2018 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 16–1938 Filed February 23, 2018 FRANCISCO VILLA MAGANA, Appellant, vs. STATE OF IOWA, Appellee. Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Marshall County, James C. Ellefson, Judge. An applicant for postconviction relief seeks further review …
Brief • February 7, 2018
Smalls v. State of South Carolina, SC, Opinion, Post-Conviction Relief, 2018 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Stephen Smalls, Petitioner, v. State of South Carolina, Respondent. Appellate Case No. 2016-001079 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS Appeal from Richland County Henry F. Floyd, Trial …
Harden v. Delaware, DE, Appeal, Poor Counsel, 2018 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE DARIUS O. HARDEN, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE OF DELAWARE, Plaintiff Below, Appellee. § § § § § § § § § § § No. 290, 2017 Court Below: Superior Court of the …
Brief • January 11, 2018
Kirkman v. State of Florida, FL, Opinion, Sentencing, Capital Punishment, 2018 Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC16-808 ____________ VAHTIECE ALFONZO KIRKMAN, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. [January 11, 2018] PER CURIAM. Vahtiece Alfonzo Kirkman appeals his conviction and sentence of death for the first-degree murder of Darice Knowles. …
State of Arizona v. Rushing, AZ, Appeal Brief, Wrongful Death by Inmate, 2017 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA STATE OF ARIZONA Appellee, v. JASPER PHILLIP RUSHING, Appellant. No. CR-15-0268-AP Filed November 6, 2017 Appeal from the Superior Court in Maricopa County The Honorable Michael W. Kemp, …
Brief • November 6, 2017
Dunn v. Madison, US, Certiorari Petition, Capital Punishment, 2017 Cite as: 583 U. S. ____ (2017) 1 Per Curiam SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES JEFFERSON DUNN, COMMISSIONER, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS v. VERNON MADISON ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE …
Brief • January 1, 2016
Ayestas v. Davis, DC, Certiorari Appeal, Ineffective Assistance, 2016 No. 16-6795 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States CARLOS MANUEL AYESTAS, Petitioner, v. LORIE DAVIS, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION), Respondent. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit …
Gay v. Chandra, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2015 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE/CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT For the sole and only consideration of TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 00/100 DOLLARS ($27,500.00), paid on behalf of RAKESH CHANDRA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, I do hereby fully and forever …
Brief • July 6, 2013
Rich v. Taser Intl, NV, Motion, Limine to Supress Leetsma Testimony 2013 1 2 3 John Snow, Nevada State Bar No. 4133 VANCOTT, BAGLEY, CORNWALL & McCARTHY 2300 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite 800, Las Vegas, NV 89102 E-mail: jsnow@vancott.com Telephone: (801) 532-3333 Facsimile: (801) 534-0058 4 5 6 7 8 …
Brief • July 5, 2013
Rich v. Taster Intl, NV, Motion, Limine to Exclude Expert Hinz, 2013 1 2 3 John Snow, Nevada State Bar No. 4133 VANCOTT, BAGLEY, CORNWALL & McCARTHY 2300 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite 800, Las Vegas, NV 89102 E-mail: jsnow@vancott.com Telephone: (801) 532-3333 Facsimile: (801) 534-0058 4 5 6 7 8 …
Gay v. Chandra, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2013 Case 3:10-cv-00336-NJR-DGW Document 77 Filed 01/11/13 Page 1 of 9 Page ID #257 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ANTHONY GAY, B62251, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, vs. RAKESH CHANDRA, M.D., Defendant. Cause …
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