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Catching up

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

I don’t recall when we last dd a roundup, so here’s nothing. Judge assigned to hear Troy Davis evidence; SSRN-Statewide Capital Punishment: The Case for Eliminating Counties’ Role in the Death Penalty by Adam Gershowitz; In Pennsylvania, Death sentence vacated for South Side killer; Rick Casey looks at refom at the Texas CCA in a snarkily entitled post My thanks to maligned Judge; The Innocence Project reports that a NJ Judge to Order Evidence Search looking for evidence of innocence in a decaeds long cliam of factual innocence; Human Rights Watch in a report released earlier this week looks at ?An Unfair Prison Litigation System;? Despite allegations of gross governmental error, ?Judge won’t drop Tarrant DA’s office from Richardson capital-murder appeal;? The Psychiatric Times has ?Discussing the Meaning of Life With a ‘Lifer‘;” and finally, via wire stories, Young Afghan Guantanamo inmate (claimed to have been taken from the battlefield at age 12) freed, returns home continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).