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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The email edition is now available. From that edition: No favorable decisions are noted for the period from May 19, 2006 to May 26, 2008. In the news, Prof. John Blume of Cornell University Law School has done the herculean task of compiling a rough number of cases, 83, in which an inmate?s death sentence was reduced in light of Atkins v. Virginia (2002). The Alabama Legislature finished its annual session at midnight on May 19, 2008 and among the bills dying at that hour was H.B. 456 which would have made repeat offenses of first degree rape, sodomy, or sexual abuse a capital crime where the victim was under the age of 12. A year has passed since a jury has recommend a death sentence in United States v. Gorge “Porgy” Lecco and Valerie Suzette Friend, this article looks at why a death sentence hasn’t been imposed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).