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pre-long weekend coverage

By cdw

A quick recap before the long weekend of events since the last edition: A shortage in thiopental sodium, the drug used in lethal injection procedures may put executions in Arizona on hold a while longer. Hooks v. Workman, No 07-6152 (10th Cir 5/25/2010) Relief granted as the state trial court’s Allen charge in the penalty phase on these facts was inappropriate. “In a capital habeas matter, the denial of petitioner’s habeas petition is affirmed in part as to the murder convictions, but reversed and remanded for a grant of habeas relief on the death sentences where: 1) the Allen charge given by the trial court in the midst of penalty-phase deliberations, when considered in the context of all surrounding circumstances, coerced the jury into returning death sentences; and 2) the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision to the contrary was an unreasonable application of Lowenfield v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).