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Seventh Circuit reinstates federal death row inmate's lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional a policy that prohibits federal death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews with the media and from talking with the media about other inmates

Seventh Circuit reinstates federal death row inmate's lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional a policy that prohibits federal death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews with the media and from talking with the media about other inmates: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

Timothy McVeigh's interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes" appears to have given rise to the challenged policy. Today's opinion explains that the death row inmate who is challenging the policy is no longer sentenced to die, although the federal government's appeal from the order setting aside the death sentence remains in the process of being briefed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Notwithstanding the order vacating the inmate's death sentence, he continues to be housed on the federal death row at the Special Confinement Unit of the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 15, 2008 (boomark / email).