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The changed timing of executions

By Douglas A. Berman

Triggered by the fact that Tennessee has an execution scheduled for the middle of the night, the AP has this new piece headlined "States shift away from holding midnight executions."  Here are a few snippets from an interesting article:  Many states have adjusted their schedules in recent years, and the vast majority of U.S. executions now occur during daylight or early evening hours when courts are more accessible, according to an Associated Press review.  Of the 34 states where the death penalty has been carried out since 1976, 15 states still execute inmates in the middle of the night. One of them is Tennessee, where double-murderer Steve Henley is to die by injection at 1 a.m. CST Wednesday at Riverbend prison in Nashville.  The late hour has some victims' advocates in the state upset...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).