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Ohio Is First to Change to One Drug in Executions
Posted on November 15, 2009Breaking ranks with the 35 other states that use lethal injections to execute prisoners, Ohio on Friday became the first state to say it would switch to a single drug, rather than a three-drug cocktail, in its death penalty procedure.Critics have long argued that using a single drug, the preferred method in animal euthanasia, is more humane than the three-drug cocktail, which involves a short-acting barbiturate to render the inmate unconscious, followed by a paralytic and then a chemical to stop the heart...
Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland
Posted on October 23, 2009http://www.freemolandandfrench.com/index.htmlJoshua French and Tjostolv Moland received 5 death sentences each from a military tribunal in DR Congo on September 8. 2009. They were convicted solely based on circumstational evidence and two witnesses who weren't expected to give their oath...
Corsicana Sun hyping bogus Willingham 'confession' shames paper, state
Posted on October 18, 2009Locals in Corsicana are circling the wagons on the Todd Willingham case, and they've enlisted the enthusiastic assistance of the local newspaper, The Corsicana Sun, to their cause. It's hard not to conclude the paper is embarrassing itself, their town and the state with ignorant, hyperdefensive attempts to counter conclusions by arson experts in the Todd Willingham case...
Lawyers Speaking Out in Response to Todd Willingham's Trial Attorney's "Utterly Disgraceful" Performance on CNN
Posted on October 18, 2009Early Friday morning, we posted the video from last Thursday's CNN AC 360 program when Todd Willingham's trial lawyer was on the program and made remarks that we thought violated his attorney-client obligations, which bind a lawyer even after his client has died...
Eine Petition an Gouverneur Rick Perry: Texas sollte zugeben dass Todd Willingham unschuldig war
Posted on October 18, 2009Use google tranlation : Dutchaktuelle Signaturen. Texas sollte zugeben dass Todd Willingham unschuldig war Eine Petition an Gouverneur Rick Perry und den Staat von Texas anzuerkennen das dass Feuer in dem Cameron Todd Willingham Fall kein Fall von Brandstiftung war...
AC360 10/14/09 Keeping Them Honest
Posted on October 16, 2009Todd Willingham`s mother See the video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZddHNu_j7o8&feature=relatedSource(www.youtube.com)
Keeping them Honest, AC360 10/13/09
Posted on October 16, 2009Is the Governor trying to cover up the exceution of an innocent man? Look at the video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbo8QCVdSYo&feature=relatedSource(www.youtube.com)
Todd Willingham's Defense Lawyer Embarrasses Texas Justice System on National TV; Juror Now Has Doubts, says "may have to face my God and explain"
Posted on October 16, 2009Tonight on CNN AC360, Todd Willingham's trial lawyer David Martin, the person who was supposed to have vigorously defended his client, made an appearance on national TV arguing for his former client's guilt. Martin, appearing in a cowboy hat, drawled that the report submitted to the Texas Forensic Science Commission by Dr Craig Beyler was one of the "least objective reports" he has ever read...
CNN AC360 on Todd Willingham Execution and Rick Perry's Cover Up - Oct 13, 2009
Posted on October 15, 2009Klick on the link to watch the video.Source(www.youtube.com)
Reprieve calls on Brown to save death-row man
Posted on October 15, 2009Lawyers for a mentally ill British man facing execution in China on drug trafficking charges renewed their appeal on Tuesday for his psychiatric condition to be taken into account. Akmal Shaikh, from London, is believed to suffer from bipolar disorder, which makes him prone to delusions and impairs his judgement...
Een petitie aan Gouveneur Rick Perry: Texas moet toegeven dat Todd Willingham onschuldig was.
Posted on October 15, 2009Use google translation (Language : Dutch)Handtekeningen. Texas moet toegeven dat Todd Willingham onschuldig was. Een petitie aan gouveneur Rick Perry en de staat van Texas om te erkennen dat de brand in zaak van Cameron Todd Willingham geen brandstichting was...
Crist needs to rein in death-by-petition
Posted on October 14, 2009The Tampa TribunePublished: October 14, 2009Floridians who support the death penalty are understandably frustrated by the seemingly endless appeals that can delay justice for decades.Still, Gov. Charlie Crist sends a dangerous message when he allows petition drives to influence the signing of death warrants...
36 Years of Solitude
Posted on October 12, 2009Why is Bobby Jindal?s administration determined to keep Albert Woodfox in permanent lockdown?What's left of Albert Woodfox's life now lies in the hands of a federal appeals court in New Orleans. By the time the court hears his case on Tuesday, the 62-year-old will have spent 36 years, 2 months, and 24 days in a 6-by-9-foot cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola...
San Antonio Rally to Stop Execution of Reginald Blanton
Posted on October 12, 2009Klick on the heading to watch the video on YouTube.http://www.myspace.com/freereggiebhttp://marchforabolition.orgOctober 10, 2009 rally speakers included the oldest son of Reginald Blanton and his mother Anna Terrell. Gloria Rubac is also in this video...
Pétition au Gouverneur Perry: ?reconnaissez l?innocence de Todd Willigham et suspendez les exécutions!?
Posted on October 12, 2009Use google translation.Voir les signatures. Le Texas doit reconnaître l?innocence de Todd Willingham et suspendre les exécutions Une pétition adressée au Gouverneur Rick Perry et à l?Etat du Texas afin qu?ils reconnaissent que l?incendie dans l?affaire de Todd Willingham n?était pas d?origine criminelle, que par conséquent un homme innocent a été exécuté le 17 février 2004...
Scott Cobb: "I did feel some pressure from them, yes," says Former Chair of Texas Forensic Science Commission about Rick Perry
Posted on October 12, 2009The Chicago Tribune, which wrote a lengthy article about Todd Willingham in December 2004 that first brought the case to national attention, has a new article quoting the replaced chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, Samuel Bassett, saying that Governor Rick Perry pressured the committee...
Obama should have the U.S....
Posted on October 12, 2009Obama should have the U.S. Justice Department investigate Texas Governor Rick Perry's cover up of the execution of an innocent person.Source(www.obamashould.org)
Europeans press the US to end the death penalty
Posted on October 12, 2009With 37 prisoners executed last year, the United States is among the top five countries that still have the death penalty.Washington - The United States does not often find itself in a league with China, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. But as international human rights groups and a number of countries, particularly in the European Union [EU], prepare to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty Saturday, that list of the five countries where nearly all of 2008's executions were carried out is where the US finds itself...
Execution Methods Examined
Posted on October 12, 2009Ohio's Review After Botched Injection May Have Wide Impact.Romell Broom knew he was about to die when the Ohio prison warden came to his cell, escorted by guards, and read his death warrant. A court had rejected his final appeal. Soon, two nurses arrived and told Broom to lie down as they tried to insert a needle into his arm, readying a vein to receive the three drugs that would knock him out and eventually kill him...
Fourth member replaced on Texas panel probing execution
Posted on October 12, 2009(CNN) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has removed a fourth member of a state commission charged with investigating claims that an innocent man may have been executed, his office said. The Texas governor has now replaced all of the four members that, under law, he is allowed to appoint to the commission...
Perry's office quiet on expert's arson report
Posted on October 12, 2009Just 88 minutes before the February 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, Gov. Rick Perry's office received by fax a crucial arson expert's opinion that later ignited a political firestorm over whether Texas, on Perry's watch, used botched forensic evidence to send a man to his death...
Texas man on death row takes plea for 3 life terms
Posted on October 11, 2009HOUSTON ? A Texas man condemned to death for killing his father 25 years ago in a shooting spree that also killed his stepmother and a half brother is headed off death row after accepting a plea deal that gives him three life prison terms. Gene Wilford Hathorn Jr...
Death penalty 'utterly barbaric'
Posted on October 10, 2009Since 2003, human rights and international advocacy groups, bar associations, and NGOs have earmarked October 10 as World Day Against the Death Penalty. They have tried to raise awareness of the dangers of capital punishment and tried to mobilise public opinion against this practise...
Lethal Injection Revisited
Posted on October 10, 2009Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to. - Sir Henry Wotton, The Disparity Between Buckingham and Essex (1651)It is so easy to view the death penalty as nothing more than a means to an end that we sometimes overlook the fact that it should not be an unpleasant experience for the person involved...
Craig Watkins, `rock star' DA at a crossroads
Posted on October 10, 2009DALLAS ? Craig Watkins, the first black district attorney in the history of Texas, is having a midterm crisis. At 41, he has his own cable TV series. His novel determination to free the wrongly convicted landed him on "60 Minutes." He is a national champion of turning the penal system on its head and a "rock star" to many constituents...
Mother of Reginald Blanton Speaking at Rally Sept 26, 2009 to Stop His Execution (Texas Capitol)
Posted on September 28, 2009http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2fWLlN/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCi-25uPPAU/Mother of Reginald Blanton Speaking at Rally Sept 26, 2009 to Stop His Execution (Texas Capitol)Added to Quicklist4:29Delia Perez Meyer speaking at Texas Capitol Rally6 viewsAdded to Quicklist0:5910th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty ...
Paul Flemming: Death needs more than a simple majority
Posted on September 25, 2009You couldn't get spinach on your pizza after E. coli-tainted shipments of the leafy stuff killed a couple people. The Cardinals won the World Series. "Basic Instinct 2," "Ice Age 2" and "Jackass 2" played in theaters. Among those who died in 2006 was an odd musical trio: Buck Owens, Billy Preston and Syd Barrett...
De er kjent skyldige i drap. De er dømt til døden i Kongo. Vi har fått historiene fra familie, kjæreste og venner.
Posted on September 18, 2009Kisangani sentralfengsel, september 2009: Gitterporten smeller igjen. Utenfor den tjue meter høye muren sitter seks vakter med hver sitt maskingevær. Innenfor er eimen av svette trykkende. Halvnakne menn ? dømt for voldtekt, drap og tyveri ? krangler og kjøpslår...
The impact of Willingham?s execution
Posted on September 17, 2009One of the biggest news stories over the past week or so has been the wrongful conviction of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004. A state-sanctioned investigation (as well as several others conducted since the execution) has recently proven that there was no real evidence showing that the fatal fire for which he was killed was arsen and not an accident...
Another innocent inmate freed in NC
Posted on September 17, 2009Joseph Abbitt became a free man after spending 14 years for the rape of two teenagers, which DNA evidence has now proved him innocent of. In 1991, two sisters were preparing for school when someone broke into their home and raped them both. The girls believed that the intruder was a man who lived 2 doors down, and then picked Joseph out of a photo lineup...
Støre: - Holder Kongo ansvarlige for sikkerheten
Posted on September 08, 2009Støre: - Holder Kongo ansvarlige for sikkerhetenUtenriksminister Jonas Gahr Støre er klar på at norske myndigheter har fått forsikringer om at Moland og French ikke vil bli henrettet.AVJON DAGSLAND HOLGERSEN KRISTJAN MOLSTAD Les også:Dømt til døden - retten krever 358 millioner av NorgeAdvokat: - Moland og French får dødsstraff- Ble tilbudt å kjøpe bort punkter i Kongo-tiltaleJonas Gahr Støre hadde bare fått referert dommen fra Kongo via mediene da han møtte pressen på en pressekonferanse tirsdag ettermiddag...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JANUARY
Posted on September 08, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JANUARY 21, 2009George H. Ryan is nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Francis A. Boyle, long-standing Professor of International Law and Human Rights, has nominated retired Illinois Governor George H. Ryan for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize...
Trial by Fire
Posted on September 06, 2009Did Texas execute an innocent man?Cameron Todd Willingham in his cell on death row, in 1994. He insisted upon his innocence in the deaths of his children and refused an offer to plead guilty in return for a life sentence. Photograph by Ken Light.The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas...
Petition to Protest Todd Willingham's Execution
Posted on September 02, 2009Todd Willingham was innocent and Texas executed him. Texas should halt all executions.To: Texas Governor Rick Perry The State of Texas should halt all executions in light of the news that the investigator hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission has concluded that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was accidental and not arson...
CONGO: Death penalty for 2 Norwegians
Posted on August 30, 2009A military prosecutor in Congo asked a court to sentence to death 2Norwegians accused of killing their driver in the lawless east of thecountry in May this year.The Norwegians, Joshua French, 27, and Tjostolv Moland, 28, were chargedwith murder, attempted murder, espionage, conspiracy and armed robberyafter their driver was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head east ofthe city of Kisangani...
Tarnished justice
Posted on August 30, 2009Misconduct trial of Judge Keller depicts a court of confusion.Being Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller apparently means never having to say you're sorry, even if your actions have brought worldwide scorn upon the state's highest criminal court...
Keller is unsuited for top court job
Posted on August 29, 2009Even in Texas, the execution of a convicted murderer is not a commonplace occurrence. When the state is prepared to administer the ultimate, irreversible sanction of justice, its officials must ensure that the judicial process has functioned with meticulous care...
Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy on Death Penalty Information Center
Posted on August 29, 2009WATCH IT on youtube :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNy-fS5whg
Human Rights News: 8/29
Posted on August 29, 2009This week, a report by the CIA inspector general called for a full criminal investigation into post-9/11 detainee abuse by the Bush administration. US Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Tuesday his plans for a preliminary review of torture allegations...
New Moratorium Hopes
Posted on August 29, 2009An anti-death penalty group hopes new evidence that Texas may have executed an innocent man will finally put the death chamber on pause. The Chicago Tribune reports that an expert hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission says the fire that killed Cameron Todd Willingham?s three daughters was accidental, not arson...
Sharon Keller, Troy Davis, and the Duty of a Death Case Judge
Posted on August 25, 2009That's the title of Steve Sheppard's FindLaw commentary, posted today. Sheppard is the Judge Enfield Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He's also the author of I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials. LINKNo obligation of a judge is more awful than to rule on who should live and who should die at the hands of the state...
Editorial: Judge Keller's disappointing testimony
Posted on August 25, 2009It was impossible not to gasp last week when Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller addressed the question of what she would do differently if she had a do-over in the execution of Michael Richard.Nothing. That was the essence of Keller's answer at her misconduct trial...
My thanks to maligned Judge Keller
Posted on August 25, 2009I'd like to express my gratitude to Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller.She has made Texas' supreme court for criminal matters into a better institution.Unfortunately, she didn't do it by bringing organizational skills to a court that must deal more than any other state court in the nation with the pressures of last-minute appeals in death penalty cases...
Calif. Assembly balks at early release of inmates
Posted on August 21, 2009California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass plans to strip the most controversial provisions from a Senate-approved plan that would have trimmed the state's prison population by 27,000 inmates.The Assembly version would keep about 10,000 more inmates behind bars and leave the state with a new, nearly $200 million budget hole, Bass said early Friday...
Former Ohio executioner: EMT experience can be an asset
Posted on August 21, 2009COLUMBUS -- While others debate the death penalty and lethal injection, Ohio's longest-serving executioner provided a personal perspective on carrying out the unwanted job, saying his experience as an emergency medical technician helped him handle the stress...
Research Links Historical Lynchings to Modern Murder Rates and Capital Punishment
Posted on August 21, 2009Recent research has revealed a close correlation between the U.S. states that historically carried out the most lynchings and the states that today have the highest homicide rates and most death sentences. In a study led by sociologist Steven Messner of the State University of New York at Albany, county data from 10 southern states where historically reliable information on vigilante lynchings between 1882 and 1930 is available were examined (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee)...
EMT board ducks death-penalty flap
Posted on August 21, 2009The Ohio EMS board has no authority over the emergency medical technicians who administer lethal drugs in state executions. That's the opinion board lawyer Heather R. Frient made public yesterday during the board's meeting. Board members asked Frient to determine whether these technicians were under their jurisdiction...
Ohio can't stop EMTs working as executioners
Posted on August 21, 2009Ohio has no authority to stop certified emergency medical technicians from working as executioners in death penalty cases because they are not acting as EMTs when putting people to death, a state attorney ruled Wednesday.The EMTs are included on the state execution team because they possess skills such as inserting IV needles, not because they are working as EMTs under medical direction, according to the legal opinion by Heather Frient, a lawyer with the Ohio Department of Public Safety...
Take a direct approach to racial justice
Posted on August 21, 2009State legislators and Gov. Bev Perdue should play it straight about the death penalty: Just put an end to it. There are too many problems with implementation, too much inconsistency in application. Public opinion is slowly turning against it and juries are more reluctant to impose it...
Interview with Dean
Posted on August 21, 2009http://www.justice.eku.edu/courses/cor320/video/COR320_DeanInterview.htmlSource(www.justice.eku.edu)
Here's a good case for killing the death penalty
Posted on August 21, 2009Opponents of the death penalty have reason for hope this week. Two high-profile cases are exposing the sick, barbaric folly of execution in America. When the U.S. resumed executions in 1977, only 16 nations had abolished the death penalty; the number has since grown to 92...
Executing John Marek for Senate
Posted on August 21, 2009When I was looking for coverage of John Marek?s execution yet to see if there were any complications with the lethal injection, I ran across one of the more disgusting news stories I have ever seen. Governor Charlie Crist, who is running for U.S. Senate against arch-conservative and hero of the far right Fmr...
Scalia's Catholic Betrayal
Posted on August 19, 2009The Supreme Court justice?s shocking remarks about capital punishment are not just a distortion of the Constitution, says Alan Dershowitz, they?re also an outrage against his church. I never thought I would live to see the day when a justice of the Supreme Court would publish the following words: ?This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ?actually? innocent...
Supreme Court says Georgia man should get hearing
Posted on August 17, 2009WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose supporters say is innocent and should be spared from execution for killing a police officer 20 years ago.Davis has spent 18 years on death row for the 1989 slaying of Savannah, Ga...
Keller drags Texas through the mud
Posted on August 17, 2009No matter the outcome of the hearing scheduled to begin today that could end in sanctions against embattled Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Chief Justice Sharon Keller, her already battered reputation will be pounded some more. While the judge's many detractors will find some satisfaction in that, the Texas way of administering criminal justice also will take a beating...
Demonstration before Trial of Judge Sharon Keller
Posted on August 16, 2009Representatives of Peoples' Judicial Complaint Signed by About 1,900 Members of the Public to Participate in Demonstration at Trial of Sharon KellerA group of people who signed a judicial complaint against Judge Sharon Keller will hold a demonstration at 8 AM in San Antonio at the Bexar County Courthouse before Keller's trial begins on August 17...
Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis No. 5: Race, Death, and Justice in America
Posted on August 15, 2009Although not directed specifically at the case of Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis and slain policeman Mark Allen MacPhail, the state of North Carolina?s new Racial Justice Act, signed into law by Governor Beverly Perdue on August 11, 2009, shines a light on one of the major aspects of the Davis/MacAllen case: that of race and the death penalty...
Judges? Dissents for Death Row Inmates Are Rising
Posted on August 14, 2009It took just 80 words for a federal appeals court to deny Kevin Cooper?s most recent plea to avoid execution. But attached to that order was a forceful 101-page dissent by a judge, all but pleading to spare Mr. Cooper?s life.?The State of California may be about to execute an innocent man,? it began...
New bill aims to remove race from death penalty equation
Posted on August 11, 2009On July 15th the North Carolina House voted 61-54 to approve the Racial Justice Act, which, if signed into law, would allow death row prisoners in the state to appeal their sentences if racial prejudice played a role in their sentencing. Last night, the North Carolina Senate approved the legislation, which now goes to Governor Bev Perdue for her signature...
A Documentary Film Screening Sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida and Tallahassee Citizens Against the Death Penalty in opposition to the pen
Posted on August 10, 2009?Juan Meléndez - 6446? tells the incredible, true story of JuanMeléndez, who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.Puerto Rican migrant farmer raised in New York City, Meléndez wasaccused of murder in the state of Florida. While claiming his innocence,Juan Meléndez was convicted and put on death row for 17 years, 8 months1 day...
Study: 88% of criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent
Posted on August 10, 2009A recent study by Professor Michael Radelet and Traci Lacock of the University of Colorado found that 88% of the nation?s leading criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime. The study, Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists, published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Crimonology, concluded, ?There is overwhelming consensus among America?s top criminologists that the empirical research conducted on the deterrence question fails to support the threat or use of the death penalty...
Texas Strikes Again
Posted on August 10, 2009We found out this weekend that Earnest Sonnier spent 23 years in a Texas prison for a rape he didn?t commit: State district Judge Michael McSpadden asked for an expedited release for Ernest Sonnier, 46, who was convicted of a 1985 sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison...
Florida justice: Tough on youths
Posted on August 09, 2009TALLAHASSEE - While other young men were heading to college or finding their first jobs, Terrance Graham entered a state prison at the age of 19 where he will spend the rest of his life. The Jacksonville man, in the words of his own attorney, was "no angel...
Syrian Lawyer Faces Prosecution for Defending Human Rights
Posted on August 07, 2009Amnesty International Media ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseMonday, August 3, 2009Syrian Lawyer Faces Prosecution for Defending Human RightsContact: AIUSA media office at 202.544.0200x302A leading Syrian human rights lawyer was formally charged last Thursday in relation to his legitimate work in defending the rights of political prisoners in Syria...
Senate confirms Sotomayor for high court
Posted on August 06, 2009Chief Justice John Roberts will swear her in Saturday at Supreme Court.WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with politics...
Gov. Kaine pardons three members of the Norfolk Four
Posted on August 06, 2009Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today he has granted conditional pardons to three members of the ?Norfolk Four,? a group of sailors convicted of raping and killing young Navy wife Michelle Moore-Bosko in 1997 in Ocean View. Kaine said in a news conference that he has granted pardons to three sailors, still in prison, who were convicted of rape and murder...
4000 Kenyans on death row get life
Posted on August 05, 2009More than 4,000 prisoners facing execution in Kenya had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on Monday in the largest commutation in history, news sources reported. There have been no executions carried out in Kenya for 22 years.In a statement broadcast on the state-owned radio Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, President Mwai Kibaki said that an ?extended stay on death row causes undue mental anguish and suffering, psychological trauma, anxiety, while it may as well constitute inhuman treatment...
NAACP Youth and College Leaders Mobilize In Savannah, Georgia
Posted on August 03, 2009Troy Davis case galvanizes young people into action The case of Troy Anthony Davis, a likely innocent man on death row in Savannah, Georgia has inspired young people across the country to take action. Members from the NAACP Youth and College Division are convening in Savannah, this week for a ?Savannah Summer Field Experience? to help save Davis? life and to learn skills that will equip them to organize in their own communities...
12 and in Prison
Posted on August 03, 2009The Supreme Court sent an important message when it ruled in Roper v. Simmons in 2005 that children under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed were not eligible for the death penalty. Justice Anthony Kennedy drew on compassion, common sense and the science of the youthful brain when he wrote that it was morally wrong to equate the offenses of emotionally undeveloped adolescents with the offenses of fully formed adults...
DPIC & AP look at the death penalty in Pennsylvania
Posted on August 01, 2009Forty-seven years have past since Pennsylvania last executed someone who hadn?t ?dropped their appeals.? Since restoration of the Pennsylvania death penalty in the disco era 21 people on death row have died of natural causes, 3 agreed to drop the appeals and be executed...
The Nation: Beer And Sympathy
Posted on July 31, 2009Taxi drivers provide a perverse service to the racial conversation when they refuse to pick up black people. Clearly it would be better if they stopped, so that we wouldn't be left hailing the night air like fools or relying on white friends to sneak one past the censor like supplicants...
Troy Davis, A Man Without a Voice, Speaks for Too Many
Posted on July 30, 2009There is an entire group of citizens in the United States who are largely ignored by liberals and conservatives alike. They are the people on Death Row whose guilt contains "reasonable doubt." For better or for worse, Mr. Troy Anthony Davis is their poster child...
Uphold the rule of law on torture
Posted on July 29, 2009According to the Washington Post and recent articles in Newsweek the Attorney General is on the verge of making a decision on the appointment of a special prosecutor. We need for Holder to follow the facts and support the establishment of a commission of inquiry to look into the facts and the alleged abused associated with counterterrorism policies in the war on terror...
Texas Reform Creates Office for Capital Appeals
Posted on July 29, 2009A new law in Texas will create a state ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifffice to handle the appeals of death row inmates. The office was created in response to a series of well publicized scandals which brought international attention to the subpar representation of capital offense appeals...
Texas reporter's seen unrivaled number of U.S. executions
Posted on July 21, 2009(CNN) -- It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas.Mike Graczyk poses outside the Texas death chamber prior to an execution in January. At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men -- and a few women -- die...
State Commissions Seek to Prevent Wrongful Convictions
Posted on July 20, 2009(July 20, 2009) Newly created innocence commissions in New York and Texas will join a growing list of state commissions working to prevent future injustice by learning from previous mistakes. Both states have high numbers of wrongful convictions; 38 Texans and 24 New York State residents have been proven innocent through DNA testing after serving years or decades in prison...
Is it time to put the brakes on Alabama's death penalty?
Posted on July 19, 2009Posted by Joey Kennedy -- Birmingham News April 20, 2009 3:00 AMWhat do we gain when we execute people? I supposed there's a feeling of justice. A person committed a brutal murder and we take his life in return. Eye for an eye, and such. Or maybe it's revenge for the victim's family, but does killing another make it all better? Or maybe we've deluded ourselves into thinking we're protecting society, though our prisons are pretty good at keeping people locked up and preventing them from messing with society...
As More States Weigh Improving Lineups, New Innocence Project Report Shows Extent of the Problem and Effectiveness of Reform
Posted on July 16, 200975% of wrongful convictions overturned with DNA testing involve eyewitness misidentification; 17 states in last two years have considered reforms(New York, NY; July 16, 2009) ?A report released today by the Innocence Project shows that while eyewitness identification is among the most prevalent and persuasive evidence used in courtrooms, it is not error-proof and is the leading cause of wrongful convictions that have been overturned with DNA testing...
'Emotional rollercoaster' of an executioner
Posted on July 07, 2009By JAMES ELLIS - Tuesday, June 16, 2009Burl Cain, 67, is warden of the tough Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Some 90 per cent of inmates die while incarcerated, thanks to the length of their sentences. Since Cain became warden in 1995, violence among inmates is down 73 per cent...
?Strange Fruit? describes horrors of lynchings
Posted on July 07, 2009By Dolores Cox Harlem, N.Y. Published Jul 3, 2009 10:12 PMJune is Black Music Month, proclaimed so by former President Jimmy Carter. In honor of Black Music Month, there was a film series showing in New York at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture based in Harlem...
Face-to-face with death row inmates at London show
Posted on July 07, 2009By Julie MollinsLONDON (Reuters Life!) - Death row inmates depicted in oil paintings by British artist Claire Phillips, on view in London's South Bank gallery@oxo, have one thing in common."All are demonstrably innocent, or very probably innocent," according to Clive Stafford Smith, director of prisoners' rights organization Reprieve, which sponsors the touring five-day "Human Face of Death Row" exhibit on show at Oxo until July 5...
Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the EU on the formal abolition of the death penalty in Togo
Posted on July 07, 2009The EU welcomes the unanimous decision of the National Assembly of Togo on 23 June 2009 to abolish the death penalty for all crimes and to commute existing death sentences into life sentences. We congratulate the Togolese Parliament, the Togolese Government and the Togolese people on this important decision...
Death Penalty and Mental Illness: Families of Victims Speak out at National Convention; 'Double Tragedies' Report Released
Posted on July 07, 2009SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, families of murder victims have joined with families of persons with mental illness who have been executed to speak out against the death penalty.Double Tragedies, a report being released today at a special session on the first day of the annual convention of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), calls the death penalty "inappropriate and unwarranted" for people with severe mental disorders and "a distraction from problems within the mental health system that contributed or even directly led to tragic violence...
Brady claims confirmed in 11 circuit opinion in Derrick Smith
Posted on July 04, 2009Bill Dillon exonerated in Florida Read the 11 circuit opinion in Derrick Smith in FloridaLawyer Marty McClainhttp://www.oranous.com/florida/DerrickSmith/Smith%2011th%20Cir%20Opinion%206-30-09.pdfhttp://www.oranous.com/florida/DerrickSmith/Smith%2011th%20Cir%20Opinion%206-30-09...
Watch lawyer Marty McClain in oral arguments in Florida Supreme Court in John Marek
Posted on July 04, 2009Michael Conley in Broward Circuit Courthttp://johnmarek.us/legal/09-1080.ramWatch lawyer Marty McClain arguing in Florida Supreme Court in the case of John Marek
The Nation: Saving Troy Davis From Death Row
Posted on July 03, 2009by Benjamin JealousNPR.org, July 2, 2009 · In late May I went to Georgia, where I met with Troy Anthony Davis on Death Row. He has been there for eighteen years, and I wanted to speak with him. I came away convinced that he represents the most compelling case of innocence in decades...
Justin Grodin case will go on for several years
Posted on July 03, 2009Baby killer entitled to many appeals; competency question complicatesPAT GILLESPIEpgillespie@news-press.com When Justin Grodin is sentenced in August ? either to life in prison or most likely to death by lethal injection if his judge follows the jury?s recommendation ? it won?t create closure for the 9-year-old case...
Fight to save Troy Davis grows
Posted on July 03, 2009Author: Joe Sims People's Weekly World Newspaper, 07/03/09 16:12 The NAACP has initiated an ?I am Troy Campaign? as part of worldwide effort to prevent the execution of Troy Davis, a 40-year-old man on death row in Georgia. Davis, who is African American, was convicted 20 years ago for the death of a white off-duty police officer, Mark MacPhail...
Vermont to California, new laws take effect July 1
Posted on June 28, 2009Vermont to California, new laws take effect July 1By The Associated Press ? 1 day ago New laws taking effect in several states Wednesday:Alabama:_Makes more women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer eligible for treatment through Medicaid.California:_Bars schools from serving food containing transfats...
Jurors who sentenced man to die for '91 Ga. cop killing now split over appeal
Posted on June 28, 2009GREG BLUESTEIN, RUSS BYNUMAssociated Press Writers10:49 AM PDT, June 28, 2009SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ? Inside the jury room, seven men and five women huddled around a table to discuss a parade of witnesses in the case of an off-duty police officer shot and killed outside a fast-food restaurant...
OUR VIEW: Postconviction DNA testing should be available whether it's a constitutional right or not
Posted on June 28, 2009Posted by The Editorial Board June 27, 2009 2:01 AMThe U.S. Supreme Court says people who were wrongly convicted of old crimes have no constitutional right to the DNA testing that could prove their innocence. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling last week, said it's not their job to say who should get DNA testing in old criminal cases...
Supreme Court Expected to Take Up Davis Case
Posted on June 28, 2009Seven of nine witnesses have recanted testimony By AFRO Staff(June 28, 2009) - The fate of Troy Davis now rests in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation?s highest court is expected this week to consider hearing the case of Davis, a Georgia man convicted 20 years ago of killing a Savannah police officer...
Judge orders more DNA testing in death penalty case
Posted on June 25, 2009Judge orders more DNA testing in death penalty caseFlorida Supreme Court stayed David Johnston's execution in May.http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-david-johnston-dna-testing062309,0,3404529.story?track=rssSarah Lundy Sentinel Staff Writer5:38 PM EDT, June 23, 2009 An Orange Circuit Court judge is allowing a lab selected by the defense and another picked by the state to test evidence for DNA in the death penalty case against David Eugene Johnston, whose execution was stayed last month by the Florida Supreme Court...
Routier still waiting on DNA testing
Posted on June 25, 2009Tim SampsonThe Daily Times Published June 24, 2009Convicted child killer Darlie Lynn Routier sits on death row waiting for a new round of court-ordered DNA testing a year after the highest criminal appeals court in the state ordered that evidence be re-examined...
Dennis Skillicorn's widow reacts to the halting of Missouri executions
Posted on June 25, 2009By Nadia Pflaum in Follow That StoryThursday, Jun. 25 2009 @ 6:30AMJust a little over a month after the state ended the life of Dennis Skillicorn by lethal injection, executions are again on hold in Missouri. Incoming Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr...
Obama names Martin to federal appeals court
Posted on June 22, 2009Posted on Fri, Jun. 19, 2009 ATLANTAPresident Obama on Friday nominated U.S. District Judge Beverly B. Martin of Atlanta to fill a vacant seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.Martin, a former U.S. attorney in Macon, has been on the district court bench since 2000, when she was appointed by President Clinton...
Death penalty decisions loom for Barack Obama
Posted on June 22, 2009Death penalty decisions loomBy: Josh Gerstein June 21, 2009 07:03 AM EST For the first time in his career, President Barack Obama may soon confront one of the most weighty and unsavory decisions that a chief executive must make, whether to put a murder convict to death...
NAACP top exec says cop-killer conviction was built on 'lies'
Posted on June 20, 2009Jan Skutch | Morris News ServiceFriday, June 19, 2009 8:42 a.m.SAVANNAH -- If the conviction of Troy Anthony Davis and his subsequent death sentencing resulted from "lies," then a "cop killer" has remained at large for 18 years, the top executive of the national NAACP says...
Legal stalling is packing Death Row
Posted on June 15, 2009Tom HarmanMonday, June 15, 2009Legal executions have been the law of the land in California since the late 1800s. They were briefly abolished by the state Supreme Court in 1972 and reinstated by the voters in 1978. Yet only 13 executions have taken place in the 37 years since the death penalty was reinstated...
Former San Quentin warden honored for speaking out against death penalty
Posted on May 23, 2009Richard HalsteadPosted: 05/22/2009 06:37:40 PM PDTDuring her stint as warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford oversaw the execution of four death row inmates without ever discussing her personal feelings about the death penalty.On Thursday night, however, Woodford received an award from Death Penalty Focus for her courage in speaking out against capital punishment...
In the Absence of Proof
Posted on May 23, 2009By BOB HERBERTThe options are running out for Troy Davis, a man who has been condemned to death for killing a police officer in Georgia, but whose guilt is seriously in question.It?s bad enough that we still execute people in the United States. It?s absolutely chilling that we?re willing to do it when we?re not even sure we?ve got the right person in our clutches...
World Wide Protest for Death Row Inmate Troy Davis
Posted on May 22, 2009Thousands of people in 43 U.S. states and five continents participated in Amnesty International's "Global Day of Action," where people from all over the world protested the death sentence of Georgia man Troy Davis. The activists rallied in efforts to bring awareness and also pressure the state to overturn its decision...
Please Ask Connecticut Governor Rell To Sign The Death Penalty Abolition Bill
Posted on May 22, 2009Early this morning the Connecticut Senate voted to abolish Connecticut's death penalty. The vote was 19-17. The bill now goes to Governor Jodi Rell (R). She sounds like she will veto the bill. So, if you care about the value of human life and making Connecticut and America more just and ending the barbarism that is the death penalty, this is an important time to spend a few moments to call or email Governor Rell to ask her to sign the bill...
Voices raised for Troy
Posted on May 21, 2009Troy Davis could again come face to face with the Georgia execution machine. Following a federal court's rejection of his appeal, the stay of execution protecting Troy was lifted on May 16. Troy's lawyers are planning a new appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, pleading once again for justice--that the courts should at least hear persuasive new evidence of Troy's innocence...
Former judges push for hearing on Troy Davis innocence claim
Posted on May 21, 2009Group asks Supreme Court to send death row case back to federal court.Twenty-seven former judges, justices and prosecutors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow death-row inmate Troy Davis? innocence claims to be heard in federal court. The filing comes a day after Davis? lawyers filed their final legal bid...
After 22 Years on Death Row, Paul House is Cleared
Posted on May 20, 2009Paul House?s name has finally been cleared, bringing to an end two decades of struggle for freedom after a wrongful conviction in Tennessee. House (pictured above with his mother, Joyce) served more than two decades on Tennessee?s death row before the U...
Missouri executes Skillicorn for 1994 murder
Posted on May 20, 2009Dennis Skillicorn was calm ? ?remarkably calm? ? in his final hours. The convicted murderer was executed at the state corrections facility here at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, 11 minutes after being administered a series of injections that left him unconscious and ultimately stopped his heart...
Ex-Inmate Draws Attention To Need For Help
Posted on May 20, 2009Connecticut - Let us applaud the man's resourcefulness. Leroy James Gardner, a 44-year-old ex-bank robber just out of federal prison, needed help. Mr. Gardner, as reported by Courant columnist Stan Simpson last week, was released in Hartford with no money or contacts and without his anxiety medication...
Missouri prepares for first execution in 4 years
Posted on May 20, 2009BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) ? Missouri early Wednesday executed a man who killed a good Samaritan who had stopped on the road to help him, ending a nearly four-year period without an execution in the state. Texas, meanwhile, executed its 15th prisoner this year...
Missouri's other execution
Posted on May 19, 2009Obviously, there's been a lot of coverage about the Dennis Skillicorn execution, set for 12:01 a.m Wednesday. But the Missouri Supremes have also scheduled a date for Reginald Clemons, who will be put to death June 17. He is one of four men convicted in the murders of sisters Robin Kerry, 19, and Julie Kerry, 20, on the old Old Chain of Rocks Bridge in 1991...
Rally planned Tuesday to protest Troy Davis execution
Posted on May 19, 2009Final appeal to be filed with Supreme Court in case where witnesses recanted.Death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis will file a last-ditch appeal Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court, and a rally to protest his execution is planned for Tuesday night at the state Capiol...
As execution nears, Skillicorn loses two more appeals
Posted on May 19, 2009Legal options for a Kansas City man scheduled to be executed shortly after midnight tonight continue to dwindle with the denial of more appeals.The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis late Monday denied Dennis Skillicorn?s appeal of a federal judge?s ruling last week...
Missouri Supreme Court rejects delay in Skillicorn?s execution
Posted on May 19, 2009JEFFERSON CITY | The Missouri Supreme Court has denied a request to delay the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the slaying of a Good Samaritan 15 years ago.Dennis Skillicorn is to be executed at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for the 1994 killing of Richard Drummond, who stopped to help when Skillicorn?s car broke down...
America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates...
Posted on May 18, 2009America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates...By Louis A. RuprechtPosted on May 18, 2009, Printed on May 18, 2009http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/1216/It is one of the more striking features of the poorly-named ?Western tradition? that two of its foundational stories both involve an act of extraordinary injustice and an ultimately, unwarranted, state-sponsored execution...
KANSAS VIEWS ON DEATH PENALTY, WIND POWER, HUNGER, SEAT BELTS
Posted on May 18, 2009Death penalty -- Gov. Mark Parkinson revealed an interesting perspective on the state's death penalty when he said he would be open to re-evaluating it. As a state senator, Parkinson helped draft the law, which Kansas enacted in 1994. He said the purpose was to give murder defendants an incentive to plead guilty for a prison sentence without possibility of parole for 40 years...
Killer is a celebrity, thanks to death row
Posted on May 18, 2009His execution is set for Wednesday. So naturally we?re hearing a lot about how Dennis Skillicorn turned his life around while on Missouri?s death row.Just before a court order helped him avoid lethal injection last year, we also were made aware of how he?d found God...
Prison staffers back clemency for inmate facing death
Posted on May 18, 2009Tony Rizzo |last updated: May 17, 2009 02:06:20 PMKANSAS CITY, Mo. _ ?I know he?s not the same man who came into prison,? said Bill Henry, a volunteer who has worked with Skillicorn for years in a Christian-based group. ?The good things he?s done you can?t even count...
Prisons, corrections workers to speak on Skillicorn execution
Posted on May 18, 2009STATE CAPITOL -- Today at the State Capitol, Missouri prison and correctional workers will speak out against Wednesday's scheduled execution of Dennis Skillicorn.Skillicorn is one of three men convicted of killing a man in 1994 along Interstate 70 in Callaway County...
Local vigil to protest Death Penalty
Posted on May 18, 2009By JOE MEYERPosted May 18, 2009 at 1:02 p.m.Dennis Skillicorn is scheduled to be executed early Wednesday, marking the first execution in Missouri since 2005.A vigil is scheduled from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Boone County Courthouse on Walnut Street...
Death row's revolving door
Posted on May 18, 2009Post-trial evidence in Ga. case resonatesBy Kevin JohnsonUSA TODAY The timeline of Troy Davis' 18 years on death row reads like most other condemned prisoners' slow shuffle to the execution chamber.His appeals chart a legal marathon from a courtroom in Savannah, Ga...
Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics
Posted on May 18, 2009By HENRY FOUNTAINIt was time, the panel of experts said, to put more science in forensic science.A report in February by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences found ?serious problems? with much of the work performed by crime laboratories in the United States...
Dead Souls
Posted on May 15, 2009By ALEXANDER COCKBURNThe Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, nowhere with more caprice than with the criminal justice system. On the plus side, there are at least a couple of good trends: a tilt from the death penalty (with serious qualifications about the ?living death? alternative I discussed here recently) and a move away from imprisonment for victimless crimes?as evidenced by medical marijuana laws; impending reform of the Rockefeller drug laws; and Prop 36 in California, offering treatment alternatives to prison...
It's Up to You to Save Troy Davis
Posted on May 15, 2009By RON JACOBSOne wonders how many times this scenario has played out in the United States. Like a classic crime movie, the details go something like this: A group of young men, usually African-American, get involved in an activity of questionable legality...
The 132nd Death Row Exoneree: Implications for the Troy Davis Case
Posted on May 15, 2009Diann Rust-TierneyExecutive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death PenaltyPosted: May 14, 2009 06:12 PMOne of the many disturbing aspects of capital punishment is that it has no guarantee against mistaken convictions and executions. This risk of mistakes was driven home again on May 12th, just days ago, when a Tennessee District Attorney dropped all charges against former death row inmate Paul House, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1986...
Mo. House passes death penalty study
Posted on May 15, 2009Marshall Griffin, KWMUJEFFERSON CITY, MO (2009-05-13) The Missouri House has passed a crime bill that includes authorizing a commission to study the use of the death penalty in the state.The original amendment called for a moratorium on executions in Missouri while the study is conducted, but it was stripped out on a mostly party-line vote...
UPDATE: Missouri GOP leader urges commutation of death sentence
Posted on May 15, 2009By CHRIS BLANK/The Associated PressMay 13, 2009 | 5:32 p.m. CDTJEFFERSON CITY ? House Majority Leader Steven Tilley said Wednesday that Gov. Jay Nixon should commute the death sentence of a Missouri man who is scheduled to be executed May 20.Tilley, one of the chamber's top Republican leaders, urged the Democratic governor to change Dennis Skillicorn's sentence to life in prison...
Colo. may end death penalty to focus on cold cases
Posted on May 09, 2009By P. SOLOMON BANDA, The Associated Press2009-05-02 15:18:25.0Current rank: Not rankedDENVER -Colorado and nine other states considered abolishing the death penalty this year to save money, but Colorado's proposal has a twist: It would use the savings to investigate about 1,400 unsolved slayings...
Spencer hearing in Altersberger case starts Friday
Posted on May 09, 2009By BRAD DICKERSONHighlands TodayDefense counsel for Joshua Lee Altersberger will have one more chance to argue for life in prison for their client. Attorneys on both sides will be back in Judge J. Michael Hunter's courtroom Friday in Bartow for a Spencer hearing...
Accused child killer has violent past
Posted on May 09, 2009Tampa, Florida - The man accused of throwing 3-month-old Emmanuel Murray from his car window on I-275 was told Wednesday morning the charges he's facing could carry the death penalty.Richard McTear Jr. made his first appearance before a judge with his head bowed and hands crossed...
Death penalty study debated
Posted on May 09, 2009By BRENDAN RILEYAssociated Press Writerlast updated: May 05, 2009 06:03:11 PMCARSON CITY, Nev. -- ]Death penalty opponents joined with advocates of more funding for schools and other services in arguing Tuesday for a plan to determine how costly it is to continue the death penalty in Nevada...
Death penalty barrier lifted
Posted on May 04, 2009Ruling says N.C. Medical Board can't stop doctors from monitoring executions, but other legal issues remain.By Sarah Ovaskasarah.ovaska@newsobserver.comPosted: Saturday, May. 02, 2009RALEIGH In a major decision in the debate over the death penalty, the N...
Court: Doctor must be present during execution
Posted on May 04, 2009RALEIGH -- The North Carolina Supreme Court issued its ruling Friday on doctors being present during executions.Last November, the court began hearing arguments on what roles, if any, doctors should play in executions.Previously, the North Carolina Medical Board did not want doctors to participate in executions...
Supreme Court Gets Hamilton County Death Penalty Case
Posted on April 28, 2009Court To Determine If Disabled Standard Should Apply In 1992 CaseWLWT.comupdated 5:50 p.m. ET, Fri., April 24, 2009WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a 1992 murder case from Hamilton County.Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is asking the court to reverse a lower court decision that set aside the death sentence imposed on Michael Bies for his murder of a 10 year-old Cincinnati boy...
Ottawa 'disappointed' with beheading sentence
Posted on April 05, 2009Tiffany Crawford, Canwest News ServiceOTTAWA -- The Harper government said Thursday it was ?deeply disappointed' by news a Saudi court had upheld the death by beheading sentence of a Canadian man who was convicted in the 2007 death of another man."We are deeply disappointed at the reports that a Saudi court has upheld its decision to sentence Mohamed Kohail to death," said Deepak Obhrai, parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon...
Steve Goble's It's Debatable: Nothing sensible about the death penalty
Posted on April 05, 2009By STEVE GOBLENews Journal Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray thinks the appeals process for death penalty cases is far too lengthy.I can solve the problem in four words: Dump the death penalty.The long appellate process sometimes defeats the possibility of justice being served, Cordray said last week...
What if They Gave an Execution and No One Came?
Posted on April 05, 2009The state of Washington now finds itself without an executioner, following the abrupt resignation of its lethal injection team. The four volunteers who administer lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla quit their positions because of fears their identities might become revealed as a result of a judicial ruling...
State's execution team resigns, fearing identities would be reveale,"
Posted on April 03, 2009From the Blog Standdown :Friday, April 03, 2009More from Washington State"State's execution team resigns, fearing identities would be reveale,"is today's Seattle Times report.Four people who have volunteered to administer lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla quit their positions this week, apparently worried that their identities could become public as a result of an ongoing court case to decide whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment...
Death penalty rift in states continues
Posted on March 20, 2009http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=385489Thursday, March 19, 2009Death penalty rift in states continuesBy John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff WriterGov. Bill Richardson?s decision Wednesday (March 18) to repeal New Mexico?s death penalty and replace it with a maximum sentence of life without parole is being hailed by supporters as a major victory in the decades-old debate over state-sanctioned executions...
Campaign to End the Death Penalty Celebrates Abolition in New Mexico
Posted on March 20, 2009Campaign to End the Death Penalty Celebrates Abolition in New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson did the right thing when he signed House Bill 285, which outlawed the death penalty. New Mexico now becomes the 15th state without the death penalty, and the second state to abolish it legislatively, after New Jersey in 2007...
STATEMENT BY BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS
Posted on March 20, 2009ForImmediate ReleaseMarch 19, 2009CONTACT:Leila McDowell202/463-2940 ext. 1005STATEMENT BY BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUSPRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE NAACPON NEW MEXICO?S REPEAL OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTNew Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and the state legislature made the right decision in repealing capital punishment...
Gov. Richardson to Decide Future of Death Penalty in NM
Posted on March 15, 2009Gov. Richardson to Decide Future of Death Penalty in NMby Mary ShawOn Friday, March 13, the New Mexico Senate voted 24-18 to repeal the death penalty in that state. This action follows a corresponding vote in the New Mexico House of Representatives in February...
Capital punishment in New Mexico
Posted on March 13, 2009The New Mexican3/12/2009 - 3/13/09Here's a list of all legal executions performed by the New Mexico Department of Corrections (between 1913 and 1929 all executions there were the responsibilities of individual county sheriffs): July 21, 1933: Two men die in the state's new electric chair...
Death-penalty debate: Decades of doubt
Posted on March 13, 2009Death-penalty debate: Decades of doubtPhoto: Nov. 6, 2001: Maria Santelli, left, and Rian Haney pause for a moment of silence after Terry Clark is executed. Clark, who was convicted of the 1986 murder of 9-year-old Dena Lynn Gore in Artesia, voluntarily halted his appeals process...
Mixed Opinions of a Judge Accused of Misconduct
Posted on March 10, 2009Mixed Opinions of a Judge Accused of Misconduct A refusal to accept a last-minute appeal in a death penalty case could end the career of a top judge in Texas.By GRETEL C. KOVACHPublished: March 7, 2009DALLAS ? If Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of Texas? highest criminal court, has ever doubted her judgment, she has not shown it...
Correct a Terrible Mistake
Posted on February 18, 2009From the Standdown Blog :Correct a Terrible MistakeThat's the title of a Baltimore Sun OpEd by former Maryland Speaker of the House Casper Taylor. LINKIn 28 years in the Maryland House of Delegates, nine as speaker, I cast thousands of votes. I have few regrets...
Osborne : A case we`re watching
Posted on February 18, 2009From the blog of The Innocence Project of Florida :Wednesday, February 18, 2009Osborne: A case we're watching Arguments are set to begin in early March in the case of District Attorney?s Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne. This summary of the case comes from SCOTUSblog...
Innocence Project of Florida Plans to Test Tompkins Evidence
Posted on February 16, 2009Frank Lee SmithInnocence Project of Florida,Inc.1100 East Park Avenue,Tallahassee, FL 32301Telephone 850.561.6767Fax 850.561.5077For Immediate ReleasePRESS RELEASEFebruary 16, 2009Contacts:Seth Miller, Esq.: 202.341.2127Innocence Project of Florida Plans to Test Tompkins EvidenceTompkins could be First Ever Executed Man to be Proven InnocentToday the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) reiterated its intent to test the remaining DNA evidence in the case of Wayne Tompkins...
National Academy of Sciences blasts Nation`s Crime Labs
Posted on February 14, 2009Jimmy AtesFrom the blog of the Innocence Project of Florida :A report being released this month by the National Academy of Sciences is expected to be "a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on," according to The New York Times last week...
Man exonerated by DNA is freed after 24 years - IN FLORIDA
Posted on February 10, 2009Man exonerated by DNA is freed after 24 yearsAccused of robbery, rape, Floridian is glad for day ?a long time coming?Alan Crotzer throws his arms in the air Monday as he leaves the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa, Fla. updated 7:43 p.m. ET Jan...
NOTICE OF APPEAL - WAYNE TOMPKINS
Posted on February 10, 2009http://www.oranous.com/innocence/WayneTompkins/Filed_02-10-2009_Notice_Of_Appeal.pdfIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO. 84-CF-010538 STATE OF FLORIDA,Plaintiff,v. WAYNE TOMPKINS, Defendant...
Former Tampa man close to execution for killing teenager
Posted on February 10, 2009Marty McClain and Juan MelendezFormer Tampa man close to execution for killing teenagerBy Colleen Jenkins, Times Staff Writerhttp://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article974717.ecePosted: Feb 10, 2009 01:19 PMTAMPA ? After 23 years on death row, Wayne Tompkins has a day to live...
Letter from Florida Innocence Project to Governor Crist - the case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on February 10, 2009Letter from Florida Innocence Project to Governor Crist - the case of Wayne TompkinsThe letter from Florida Innocence Project to Governor Crist - the case of Wayne Tompkinshttp://www.oranous.com/innocence/WayneTompkins/crist_letter_tompkins_21009.pdf
Pressrelease from Florida Innocence Project - Wayne Tompkins
Posted on February 10, 2009Pressrelease from Florida Innocence Project - Wayne Tompkinshttp://floridainnocence.org/pdf/tompkins_release_21009.pdfInnocence Project of Florida, Inc.1100 East Park Avenue,Tallahassee, FL 32301Telephone 850.561.6767Fax 850.561.5077For Immediate ReleasePRESS RELEASEFebruary 10, 2009Contacts:Seth Miller, Esq...
PETITION SEEKING TO INVOKE THIS COURT'S ALL WRITS JURISDICTION AND APPLY TO THIS COURT FOR A STAY OF EXECUTION
Posted on February 09, 2009http://www.oranous.com/innocence/WayneTompkins/Filed_02-09-2009_Petition.pdfIN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA WAYNE TOMPKINS, Petitioner, v. CASE NO. SC09-___ BILL McCOLLUM,Attorney General of theState of Florida, and, WALTER A. McNEIL,Secretary,Department of Corrections,State of Florida, Respondents...
Tompkins Asks Justices For Stay Of Execution
Posted on February 09, 2009http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/09/tompkins-asks-justices-stay-execution/ Tompkins Asks Justices For Stay Of Execution The Associated Press Published: February 9, 2009 Wayne Tompkins TALLAHASSEE - A death row inmate wants the Florida Supreme Court to stay his execution...
Motion for DNA testing - Wayne Tompkins
Posted on February 08, 2009http://www.oranous.com/innocence/tompkins/Tompkins-CC-MotionForDNA12-1-08.pdfIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THETHIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGHCOUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 84-CF-010538STATE OF FLORIDA, Plaintiff, v.WAYNE TOMPKINS,Defendant...
Fla. man facing execution appeals in federal court
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Execution Set Wednesday
Posted on February 08, 2009By VALERIE KALFRIN vkalfrin@tampatrib.com Published: February 8, 2009 TAMPA - Lisa DeCarr had a headache and didn't want to go to school. The 15-year-old asked her mother if she could stay home that Thursday. Her mother, Barbara DeCarr, agreed. It was the last time DeCarr saw her daughter alive...
STATUS REPORT FROM WAYNE TOMPKINS COUNSEL
Posted on February 06, 2009IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDAWAYNE TOMPKINS, Appellantv. CASE NO. 67974STATE OF FLORIDAAppellee. ________________________/STATUS REPORT FROM WAYNE TOMPKINS= COUNSEL Yesterday, February 3, 2009, counsel for WAYNE TOMPKINS was advised that thisCourt had directed a status report to be filed...
We ask for your help to save an innocent man's life. Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed on January 27, 2009 by the State of Texas
Posted on January 01, 2009Dear Friends & fellow Abolitionists in the U.S.,We'd like to ask for your help to save an innocent man's life. LarrySwearingen is scheduled to be executed on January 27, 2009 by the Stateof Texas despite the fact that he didn't kill anyone.Larry is blessed by having very dear and loyal friends who helped andsupported him all through the years, unfortunately most of them are inOverseas/Europe...
Innocence Project lost funding in Madoff case
Posted on January 01, 2009Thursday, Jan 1, 2009Posted on Thu, Jan. 01, 2009Innocence Project lost funding in Madoff caseBy MAX B. BAKERmaxbaker@star-telegram.comAfter seeing money earmarked for DNA testing get swept away in the Bernard Madoff scandal, the chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas is calling on state lawmakers to improve overall funding for agencies investigating cases of inmates who may have been wrongfully convicted...
Union urges immediate boycott following Gaza university bombing
Posted on December 30, 2008http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10075.shtmlUnion urges immediate boycott following Gaza university bombingAppeal, Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, 30 December 2008The following appeal was issued on 29 December 2008:The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombing today of the campus of the Islamic University in Gaza...
Judge Overturns Jimmy Ates? Conviction: Use of Junk Science Leads to Release - PRESSRELEASE
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2009 May Be Watershed Year for Forensics
Posted on December 16, 20082009 May Be Watershed Year for Forensics Nearly 20 years after DNA testing first revolutionized forensic science, we still have no national standards for many forensic disciplines and techniques that law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and juries rely on every day...
Discredited forensics may upend rulings
Posted on December 16, 2008Discredited forensics may upend rulings By Meg Laughlin, Times Staff WriterIn print: Saturday, December 13, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article936409.ece Gainesville prosecutor Geoffrey Fleck has asked that Ates? murder conviction be overturned...
The Death Penalty Is Dying
Posted on December 16, 2008The Death Penalty Is Dying By Mike Farrell, Meet the BloggersPosted on December 15, 2008, Printed on December 16, 2008http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://meetthebloggers.org/112934/ The death penalty is dying. Fewer death sentences are being pronounced and fewer are being pursued, as prosecutors find America?s juries increasingly uncomfortable with the failures in the system...
Public defender-elect fires 10 seasoned attorneys
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Federal petition filed in the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008Federal petition in the innocence case of Wayne Tompkinshttp://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/federalpetition.pdf
Federal bench short on diversity
Posted on December 01, 2008ALABAMA:Federal bench short on diversityOther actions that presidents take may get more attention in the shortterm, but few have more long-term implications than appointments to thefederal courts. These are lifetime appointments, and as such can continueto exercise influence decades after a president has left office...
Motion to appoint counsel in federal court - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008The wrong manMotion to appoint counsel in federal courthttp://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/motionappointcounsel.pdf
Gradually, most of the civilized world has
Posted on December 01, 2008Dec. 1WEST VIRGINIA:Pro-death----Revenge mentality; Gradually, most of the civilized world hasabolished the death penalty. Conscientious people everywhere now realizethat killing prisoners is a medieval barbarism suited for dictatorships,but not for modern democracies...
Replybrief on all writs petition - the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_12-01-2008_Reply.pdfIN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDAWAYNE TOMPKINS,Petitioner,v. CASE NO. SC08-2168BILL McCOLLUM,Attorney General of theState of Florida,and,WALTER A. McNEIL,Secretary,Department of Corrections,State of Florida,Respondents...
A state witness, a jailhouse informant, admitted to providing false testimony at Tompkins? original trial in 1985.
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The state response to all writs petition - Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_11-25-2008_State_Response_All_Writs.pdf
All writs petition filed in Florida Supreme Court in the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008? http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_11-20-2008_Tomkins_Petition.pdfIN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA WAYNE TOMPKINS, Petitioner, v. CASE NO. SC08-___ BILL McCOLLUM, Attorney General of the State of Florida, and, WALTER A. McNEIL, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida, Respondents...
New federal order from judge Merriday - Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008New federal order denying Wayne Tompkinshttp://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/OrderMerridayNov25-2008.pdf
Motion for discovery - filed in Wayne Tompkins in federal court
Posted on December 01, 2008Federal motion for discovery filed - Wayne Tompkinshttp://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/motionfordiscovery.pdf
The federal order - Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/amendedfederalorder.pdf1 Rule 4, Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, requires a preliminary review of the petition for the writ of habeas corpus: ?If it plainly appears from the face of the petition and any exhibits annexed to it that the petitioner is not entitled to relief in the district court, the judge shall make an order for summary dismissal ...
MOTION TO ALTER OR AMEND JUDGMENT - Wayne Tompkins
Posted on December 01, 2008Case 8:08-cv-02212-SDM-MAP Document 12 Filed 11/19/2008 Page 1 of 17IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDATAMPA DIVISIONWAYNE TOMPKINS,Petitioner,v.CASE NO. 8:08-cv-2212-T-23MAPWALTER A. MCNEIL, et al.,http://www.waynetompkins...
Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution Despite Evidence of Witness Tampering by Prosecution
Posted on November 28, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/TompkinsPR.pdfFor Immediate ReleaseContact: Corinne Farrellcfarrell@deathpenaltyinfo.org(202) 289-2275Tuesday, November 11, 2008Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution DespiteEvidence of Witness Tampering by ProsecutionDissent in Florida Supreme Court Would Grant Wayne TompkinsHearing after "Bombshell Disclosure" by Jailhouse InformantWashington, D...
Exonerated Wilton Dedge inspired Dillon
Posted on November 27, 2008Exonerated Wilton Dedge inspired Dillon var gdn_auto_refresh = true; if (PluckGlobalControl == "0" || PluckSiteControl == "0") {gsl.enabled='false';} var min=8; var max=18; function increaseFontSize() { var p = document.getElementsByTagName('p'); for(i=0;i BY JOHN A...
The Election's Impact on the Federal Judiciary
Posted on November 26, 2008From the Standdown blog :The Election's Impact on the Federal Judiciary http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/ National Law Journal has a web-only article, "Election's outcome could have seismic effect on federal courts," reported by Pamela MacLean...
Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution Despite Evidence of Witness Tampering by Prosecution
Posted on November 26, 2008http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/florida-inmate-facing-imminent-execution-despite-evidence-witness-tampering-prosecution Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution Despite Evidence of Witness Tampering by Prosecution Posted: November 11, 2008 in Arbitrariness Innocence What's New A Florida inmate faces execution despite new revelations that the state prompted a trial witness to lie...
State supreme court blocks ex-cop's execution date
Posted on November 26, 2008State supreme court blocks ex-cop's execution date 12:19 PM CST on Wednesday, November 26, 2008Associated PressNEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's Supreme Court has blocked the scheduled Dec. 8 execution of a former police officer convicted of three murders...
When this is harmless error in Florida, what is not .... Florida prosecutor`s use of SNITCHES.
Posted on November 26, 2008Kenneth Turco testified Tompkins confided details of the murder while they were cellmates including that he buried the victim under his girlfriend?s house with some clothing and her pocketbook to make it appear she had run away. Turco said in sworn statement last week that prosecutor Michael Benito told him before he testified ?don?t forget the purse...
Florida can't cut corners in death cases
Posted on November 26, 2008A Times Editorial Florida can't cut corners in death cases In print: Saturday, November 8, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article894919.ece The Florida Supreme Court has set aside the Legislature's latest and hopefully final attempt to provide death row inmates with representation on the cheap...
Innocence Project of Florida pressrelease on William Dillon
Posted on November 26, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 18, 2008 PRESS ADVISORY Contacts: Seth Miller, Esq...
Supreme Court denies condemned inmate's appeals
Posted on November 26, 2008Supreme Court denies condemned inmate's appeals http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=5a76360a-39c8-43d1-9666-5513b737f36fLast Update: 11/07 8:49 pm Wayne Tompkins will be put to death for the murder of 15-year-old Lisa DeCarr in Tampa 25 years...
Dillon free on $100,000 bond
Posted on November 26, 2008Dillon free on $100,000 bondSentenced to life in slaying, man, family reunite after 27 yearsBY JOHN A. TORRESFLORIDA TODAY After nearly 28 years in prison, William Dillon hopes to spend the next few days making his first cell phone call, watching a DVD and eating some "real" food...
William Dillon to be released after 27 years for crime he didn?t commit - FLORIDA
Posted on November 26, 2008November 18th, 2008 From the blog Capital Defense Weekly :William Dillon to be released after 27 years for crime he didn?t commit http://www.capitaldefenseweekly.com/blog/?p=3911 William Dillon will be released today following 27 years for a murder DNA says he didn?t commit in Breward County, Florida...
Justice Anstead, Florida Supreme Court, dissent in Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 26, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/FSCopinionWaynedenied.htm For the reasons discussed above, we affirm the trial court?s summary denial of Tompkins?s fourth and fifth successive motions for postconviction relief and we - 39 - also deny his petition for all writs jurisdiction, or alternatively for writ of habeas corpus, or both...
Despite Obama Victory, Will Supreme Court Justices Sit Tight?
Posted on November 26, 2008Despite Obama Victory, Will Supreme Court Justices Sit Tight?Tony Mauro11-11-2008At her law clerks' reunion last June, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put the word out in no uncertain terms."If anyone asks you, 'When is she retiring?'" Ginsburg said, according to several who were there, "tell them I have a great role model in Justice [John Paul] Stevens, who is going strong at age 88...
Tampa killer loses death row appeal
Posted on November 26, 2008Tampa killer loses death row appeal By Colleen Jenkins, Times staff writerIn print: Saturday, November 8, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article895167.eceTAMPA ? A month after issuing a stay of execution for Wayne Tompkins, the Florida Supreme Court on Friday denied the death row inmate's latest round of appeals...
How Florida Supreme Court cares about prosecutorial misconduct and wrongful convictions
Posted on November 26, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_11-07-2008_Opinion.pdfTompkins?s Motion for Relinquishment of Jurisdiction for Consideration of New EvidenceFinally, we address Tompkins?s most recent allegations set forth in his motion for relinquishment filed in this Court on November 3, 2008...
Obama and the death penalty
Posted on November 26, 2008From the blog Capital Defense Weekly :Obama and the death penalty A quick primer on Obama in the death penalty that appeared some time ago in the Washington Post. ?In a nutshell: He?s pro-death penalty but he is also pro-let?s not execute the wrong guy? Five years later, Obama waded into a complex capital-punishment debate after a number of exonerations persuaded then-Gov...
Florida Supreme Court denies to relinquish in the prosecution/snitch issue - The wrongful conviction case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 26, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_11-04-2008_Order_Relinquish.pdf~upreme ~ourt of jflorfba TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2008 CASE NOS.: SC08-992 & SC08-1979 Lower Tribunal No(s).: 84-CF-OI0538 WAYNE TOMPKINS vs. STATE OF FLORIDA Appellant(s) Appellee(s) The Court having considered the motion to relinquish and the response thereto with the exception of the stricl(en footnotes 1 and 2, which are expressly not considered, hereby denies the motion to relinquish...
The Troy Davis filings to USSC
Posted on November 26, 2008Docket: 08-66Case name: Davis v. GeorgiaIssue: Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the execution of a defendant with substantial evidence supporting an innocence claim. Opinion below (Supreme Court of Georgia) Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition Brief amicus curiae of the Innocence Project (in supporter of the petitioner)
MOTION FOR RELINQUISHMENT of JURISDICTION FOR CONSIDERATION OF NEW EVIDENCE
Posted on November 25, 2008http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_11-03-2008_Motion_Relinquish.pdf 2008-11-0308;48 McClain &McDermott, 954564-5412 » P1/22 \, , IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA CASB NOS. SC08-992 , SC08-1979 WAYNE TOMPKINS I Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee...
Prosecution used snitch testimony to get a DP conviction - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 25, 2008Kathy Stevens? deposition occurred on June 12, 1985. Kenneth Turco?s deposition occurred on July 15, 1985.At thattime, he said that in late June, 1985, he first talked to WayneTompkins about his case, and that about a week and a half beforethe deposition, Mr...
Kathy Stevens testimony changes and is not consistent with the facts
Posted on November 25, 2008Benito first called Kathy Stevens on March 7, 1985. Thiswas two days after Barbara DeCarr?s March 5th deposition in whichshe indicated she went to Mr. Tompkins? mother?s house at?approximately 9:00 am.? (DeCarr depo. at 16). In her undatedstatement, she further indicated that Mr...
Conflicting testimony from Barbara de Carr and what did prosecutor Benito do?
Posted on November 25, 2008For over a year after this police report was dated, Mrs. DeCarr maintained that Lisa had run away.This was documented bynumerous police reports.Det. Gullo logged calls from Mrs. yesterday (24th). Thinks child may be pregnant.? Similarly,records from the Missing Child organization indicated thatBarbara contacted the organization on March 29, 1983, andreported Lisa as missing, saying, ?She may be on drugs and shemay be pregnant...
What if the bones in the garden are NOT Lisa de Carr`s remains? - The case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 25, 2008First, this Court overlooked Mr. Tompkins justification for DNA testing. He argued that the DNA testing of the bone identified as the remains of the victim could determine definitely whether the remains were those of Lisa DeCarr. See Reply/Cross-Answer at 32 ("if the DNA testing of the bone, hair or other organic material established that the decedent was not Lisa DeCarr, Mr...
Troy Davis Granted Stay of Execution
Posted on November 24, 2008From DPIC Troy Davis Granted Stay of Execution Troy Davis (pictured) was to be executed in Georgia on October 27. On October 24, he was granted a stay of execution by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, a federal court that reviews habeas corpus petitions from prisoners in Georgia...
11th Circuit Raises Big Questions by Delving Into Death Row Case
Posted on November 24, 2008http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=120242618790311th Circuit Raises Big Questions by Delving Into Death Row CaseAlyson M. PalmerFulton County Daily ReportNovember 21, 2008When the U.S. Supreme Court last month refused to hear the case of Troy Anthony Davis, whose claims of innocence had delayed the lethal injection he was to undergo for killing a Savannah, Ga...
Judge delays 114 habeas cases
Posted on November 23, 2008From Scotus BlogJudge delays 114 habeas cases Friday, November 21st, 2008 4:23 pm | Lyle Denniston The federal judge coordinating 114 habeas cases, involving some 200 Guantanamo Bay detainees, on Friday lifted temporarily the timelines he had laid down for key filings by one or both sides, effectively delaying most if not all of those cases...
Date Set for Davis Oral Arguments - Odette Yousef
Posted on November 23, 2008This article is more clear than others about what Troy's lawyers legally must prove to win another round of appeals.http://publicbroadcasting.net/wabe/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1420310§ionID=1Date Set for Davis Oral Arguments Odette YousefATLANTA, GA(2008-11-20)A hearing date has been set for convicted killer Troy Davis before the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals...
Florida secrecy continues
Posted on November 23, 2008During the warrant proceedings, Mr. Tompkins sought public records pursuant to Fla. Stat. Ch. 119 and Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.852(h)(3). On October 7, 2008, Mr. Tompkins sent public recordsrequests to FDLE and DOC. The records sought concerned the recentexecutions that Florida carried out...
U.S. Military Schedules Execution
Posted on November 23, 2008U.S. Military Schedules Execution "Military has date for first execution since 1961," is the title of an AP report via the San Francisco Chronicle.A former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders is set to die next month in what would be the U...
Judicial Restraint
Posted on November 23, 2008Judicial Restraint That's the title of an editorial in today's Winston-Salem Journal on North Carolina's lethal injection challenge. LINKCritics of our appellate courts often skewer judges for being "judicial activists." But a case before the N...
UN vote shows growing support of death penalty ban
Posted on November 23, 2008UN vote shows growing support of death penalty banBy JOHN HEILPRIN ? November 20, 2008UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee voted Thursday for the second year in a row to urge a global moratorium on the death penalty...
Abolishing the Death Penalty in the Era of Hope
Posted on November 23, 2008Diann Rust-Tierney Posted November 22, 2008 | 05:39 PM (EST) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diann-rusttierney/abolishing-the-death-pena_b_145760.html Abolishing the Death Penalty in the Era of HopeThe outcome of the election for President, and for state and local legislators, not only demonstrates how much Americans want change...
The UN just voted in favor of the resolution for a death penalty moratorium
Posted on November 22, 2008November 20, 2008News: The UN just voted in favor of the resolution for a death penalty moratoriumThe resolution passed the UN vote a little while ago:105 in favor, 48 against and 31 abstentions.Last year it passed with 99 in favor, 52 against and 33 abstentions...
STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS - Wayne Tompkins - wrongful conviction
Posted on November 22, 2008STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS Factual Background On March 23, 1983, Lisa DeCarr and Kathy Stevens wereexpelled from school after they were discovered outside smoking under a tree. Lisa and Kathy were in special classes foremotionally troubled students...
The Texas Prison Circus and the European Death Row Connection
Posted on November 22, 2008The Texas Prison Circus and the European Death Row Connection November 13, 2008 It had been a long time since we had seen the prison circus in town in Texas, orchestrated by a popular Senator then relayed and amplified by the local media. And for once I am taking side with the TDCJ...
Panel recommends abolishing death penalty in Md.
Posted on November 22, 2008Panel recommends abolishing death penalty in Md.The Associated Press6:16 PM EST, November 12, 2008A state commission has voted to recommend abolishing the deathpenalty in Maryland.The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7 to make therecommendation in its report to lawmakers and the governor next month...
Florida Supreme Court ignores the dangers in the lethal injection procedure in Florida
Posted on November 22, 2008Given that the former Secretary of the Department ofCorrections, Harry K. Singletary, who was a member of theGovernor?s Commission has publicly stated, ?We know for sure thatthis is going to happen again,? it would make more sense to openthe process to the light...
California lethal injection
Posted on November 22, 20081Filed 11/21/08CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATIONIN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIAFIRST APPELLATE DISTRICTDIVISION FIVEMICHAEL MORALES et al.,Plaintiffs and Respondents,v.CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENTOF CORRECTIONS ANDREHABILITATION et al.,Defendants and Appellants...
Reply brief lethal injection in Florida
Posted on November 22, 2008IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. SC08-992 WAYNE TOMPKINS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ON APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA REPLY BRIEF OF APPELLANT MARTIN J...
California Lethal Injection Protocol Invalidated
Posted on November 22, 2008California Lethal Injection Protocol Invalidated From the blog The Dream AntillesGreat news.A California Court of Appeal has invalidated California's lethal injection protocol because the state failed to comply with the state's Administrative Procedure Act...
Florida and executions - Former Secretary Singletary?s statement, ?We know for sure this is going to happen again?,
Posted on November 22, 2008THE EXISTING PROCEDURE THAT THE STATE OF FLORIDA UTILIZES FORLETHAL INJECTION VIOLATES THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITEDSTATES CONSTITUTION AS IT CONSTITUTES CRUEL AND UNUSUALPUNISHMENT. Well after the imposition of Mr. Tompkins?s sentence ofdeath, Florida adopted lethal injection as its method ofexecution...
Should doctors monitor execution
Posted on November 22, 2008Should doctors monitor execution? High court wants clarification on lawDan Kane, Staff WriterComment on this story RALEIGH - The N.C. Supreme Court dove into the two-year stalemate on executions Tuesday by asking attorneys to define what legislators meant by requiring a doctor to be present when convicted murderers are put to death...
REPLY TO RESPONSE TO PETITION SEEKING TO INVOKE THIS COURT'S ALL WRITS JURISDICTION AND/OR PETITION FOR WRITOF HABEAS CORPUS
Posted on November 22, 2008IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA WAYNE TOMPKINS, Petitioner, v. CASE NO. SC08-2000 BILL McCOLLUM, Attorney General of the State of Florida, and, WALTER A. McNEIL, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida, Respondents.____________________________________/ REPLY TO RESPONSE TO PETITION SEEKING TO INVOKE THIS COURT'S ALL WRITS JURISDICTION AND/OR PETITION FOR WRITOF HABEAS CORPUS The position taken by the State in its response is that "[i]n the instant case, this Court already has ultimate jurisdiction over the instant issues...
One more step towards universal abolition
Posted on November 22, 2008One more step towards universal abolitionPublished by Thomas Hubert on 2008/11/20 The Third Committee of the United Nations' General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on executions for the second time. More countries supported the text...
The notion that finality should trump justice does not comport with fundamental due process- The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 22, 2008The purpose of the criminal justice system is to instillconfidence in the public that justice can be and will be served.The notion that finality should trump justice does not comportwith fundamental due process. It undermines the public?sconfidence in the functioning of the criminal justice system forindividuals to be executed for crimes that they did not commit...
10 Executions in 30 Days: Is there no halt to the 'Texas Killing Machine?'
Posted on November 21, 2008Texas is set to thin out its death row before the week is over. Since mid-October Texas has executed eight inmates, with another two scheduled for execution by the end of this week. That's a total of ten executions in a little over thirty days, a new record even for the country's most active death penalty state...
The affidavit of Kim Lisenby contradicts Kathy Stevens? testimony. - the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 02, 2008Mr. Tompkins alleged in his Rule 3.851 motion that neitherhe nor counsel were able to locate and speak with Ms. Quillinpreviously, despite repeated attempts to find her, because KathyStevens, in her testimony, said that Ms. Lisenby accompanied herto Lisa DeCarr?s house...
New evidence - Sworn Affidavit of Kimberly Quillin - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 02, 2008In addition, on October 10, 2008, Mr. Tompkins obtained anaffidavit from Kimberly Quillin, formerly known as Kim Lisenby.In this affidavit, Ms. Quillin provided additional impeachmentevidence which the jury never heard: Sworn Affidavit of Kimberly Quillin State of Florida ) ss County of Hillsborough ) Before me this day personally appeared Kimberly Quillinwho being duly sworn, hereby deposes and says: 1...
Witness to Innocence News Conference Today
Posted on November 02, 2008Witness to Innocence News Conference Today Witness to Innocence, an organization composed of exonerees who had been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, is holding its annual meeting in Austin this weekend, as noted in this post...
Testimony by Maureen Sweeney - the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on November 02, 2008In the course of the collateral proceedings, withheldexculpatory evidence has surfaced, along with witnesses anddocuments that were not presented by the defense whichdemonstrate that Kathy?s story - the basis of the prosecution?stheory of the case - could have been thoroughly impeached and shown to not be true...
Obama and crime
Posted on November 02, 2008Obama and crimefrom the NYT:Mr. Obama has emphasized civil liberties, sensitivity to racial inequality and tough penalties for the most violent felons. He was a state lawmaker when the Illinois police and prosecutors were under siege. In 2003, doubt was cast on the convictions of several Illinois death-row inmates leading to a death-penalty moratorium that is still in effect...
The 3 "credible" key witnesses of one Florida innocence case
Posted on October 31, 2008Following Kathy Stevens report that she witnessed Mr.Tompkins? strangling Lisa at around 8:30 AM, Mrs. DeCarr was ableto remember that contrary to her earlier statements that she hadleft the house before 8:30 AM, and at that time Mr. Tompkins wasstill there, as was Lisa...
The Exonerated
Posted on October 31, 2008The Exonerated That's the title of Texas Monthly Senior Editor Michael Hall's report in the November TM. The subtitle is, "These 37 men spent 525 years in prison for crimes they didn?t commit. Then came the hard part: freedom."Here's an excerpt from the introduction...
Using a snitch to get a wrongful conviction in Florida - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on October 31, 2008Kathy Stevens? deposition occurred on June 12, 1985.Kenneth Turco?s deposition occurred on July 15, 1985. At thattime, he said that in late June, 1985, he first talked to WayneTompkins about his case, and that about a week and a half beforethe deposition, Mr...
The non-credible testimony of prosecution witness Kathy Stevens - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on October 31, 2008Benito first called Kathy Stevens on March 7, 1985. Thiswas two days after Barbara DeCarr?s March 5th deposition in whichshe indicated she went to Mr. Tompkins? mother?s house at?approximately 9:00 am.? (DeCarr depo. at 16). In her undatedstatement, she further indicated that Mr...
The missing teen and the conflicting testimony - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on October 30, 2008On March 23, 1983, Lisa DeCarr and Kathy Stevens wereexpelled from school after they were discovered outside smokingunder a tree. Lisa and Kathy were in special classes foremotionally troubled students. Pot was found in Kathy?s purse.Lisa was told that she could not return to school until she wasaccompanied by a parent...
SANDERS: Shameful record of executions
Posted on October 30, 2008http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/bob_ray_sanders/story/1003495.html SANDERS: Shameful record of executions By BOB RAY SANDERS bobray@star-telegram.com function PopupPic(sPicURL, sHeight, sWidth) { window.open( "http://media.star-telegram...
Despite the numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct in Florida capital cases
Posted on October 27, 2008Despite the numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct in Florida capital cases, no investigation has been launched nor program instituted to address the prevalence of such misconduct. The ABA?s assessment team stated that to stop prosecutorial abuses, "there must be meaningful sanctions, both criminal and civil, against prosecutors who engage in misconduct...
Snitch Testimony - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins, Florida
Posted on October 27, 2008Snitch Testimony Testimony from in-custody informants, often referred to as ?jailhouse snitches? has been widely used in the American criminal justice system. Unfortunately prosecutors often utilize jailhouse snitches despite their testimony being widely regarded as the least reliable form of evidence in the criminal justice system...
The snitch system
Posted on October 27, 2008Wilton DedgeHow snitch testimony sent innocent americans to death rowwww.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/issues/causesandremedies/snitches/SnitchSystemBooklet.pdf
The prosecutor located a jail house informant - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on October 27, 2008Kathy Stevens? deposition occurred on June 12, 1985.Kenneth Turco?s deposition occurred on July 15, 1985.At that time, he said that in late June, 1985, he first talked to WayneTompkins about his case, and that about a week and a half beforethe deposition, Mr...
People's movement stops execution of Troy Davis
Posted on October 27, 2008People's movement stops execution of Troy DavisOn Oct. 23, rallies for Troy Davis, an innocent Black man scheduled to beexecuted in Georgia, were held in 14 U.S. cities including Atlanta,Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco, and throughout Europe...
Affidavit of James M. Davis, Jr. - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins
Posted on October 25, 2008Similarly, Kathy Stevens? testimony was contradicted by?Junior? Davis, Lisa DeCarr?s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, when he was located in 2002. After years ofsearching and after the State finally provided previouslyundisclosed documents about Davis in 2001, Mr...
Death Penalty Report Ignored - Reforms recommended two years ago have yet
Posted on October 25, 2008Oct. 25 FLORIDA: Death Penalty Report Ignored----Reforms recommended two years ago have yet to occur. 2 years ago, an independent panel made 12 recommendations to reform Florida's death penalty process.That report has since done little more than gather dust ever since...
Court issues stay of execution for Troy Davis
Posted on October 25, 2008GEORGIA:Court issues stay of execution for Troy DavisThe federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday halted Troy Anthony Davis'execution, the third time his life has been spared shortly before he wasto be put to death.Davis' claims of innocence, based largely on the recantations ofprosecution witnesses, have attracted international attention and protest...
Will Florida execute an innocent man?
Posted on October 24, 2008STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS Factual Background On March 23, 1983, Lisa DeCarr and Kathy Stevens were expelled from school after they were discovered outside smoking under a tree. Lisa and Kathy were in special classes for emotionally troubled students...
My Visit With Troy Davis, a Man Facing Death on October 27th
Posted on October 24, 2008Dear Fellow Activists, My Visit With Troy Davis, a Man Facing Death on October 27thBy Federica Valla, American ObserverPosted on October 23, 2008, Printed on October 23, 2008http://www.alternet.org/story/104293/They come out of the corridor all dressed up,with perfectly ironed white suits with bluecollars and tennis shoes, a white smile upontheir shaved faces...
FLORIDA INNOCENCE - SUMMARY OF WAYNE TOMPKINS CASE
Posted on October 24, 2008SUMMARY OF WAYNE TOMPKINS CASE In March of 1983, Wayne Tompkins was living in Tampa with Barbara DeCarr and her three children, including 15-year-old Lisa. On the morning of March 24, 1983, between 8:30 and 9:00, Barbara went to Wayne?s mother?s house to help her move...
Federal appeals court stays execution of Ga. man convicted of killing officer in 1989
Posted on October 24, 2008http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-georgia-execution,0,3444098.storyFederal appeals court stays execution of Ga. man convicted of killing officer in 1989By GREG BLUESTEIN | Associated Press Writer12:54 PM EDT, October 24, 2008ATLANTA (AP) _ A federal appeals court gave a last-minute reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the1989 killing of an off-duty police officer even though several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime...
Court issues stay of execution for Troy Davis
Posted on October 24, 2008Court issues stay of execution for Troy DavisBy BILL RANKIN, RHONDA COOKThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFriday, October 24, 2008The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday stayed the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Monday evening...
Execution blocked by Texas appeals court
Posted on October 24, 2008Execution blocked by Texas appeals court© 2008 The Associated PressOct. 23, 2008, 11:48AMHUNTSVILLE, Texas ? The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stoppedthe scheduled execution of convicted killer Bobby Wayne Woods.The court agreed to put off the lethal injection, scheduled forThursday evening, after lawyers raised new claims that the 42-year-old Woods is mentally retarded and legally ineligible for executionunder U...
EU legislature protests US death sentence
Posted on October 24, 2008Troy Davis's scheduled execution, and Georgia's broken death penalty, continue to draw scrutiny. Here are a couple ofarticles worth reading:*EU legislature protests US death sentence*Supreme Court Justice Stevens Calls Georgia Death Penalty Reviews "Utterly Perfunctory"EU legislature protests US death sentence8 hours agoSTRASBOURG, France (AP) ? The European parliament is strongly protesting plans to execute a man in the UnitedStates who has been sentenced to death for killing a police officer...
Georgia Death Row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis
Posted on October 24, 2008From: laura bradyThanks for sending this out, Julien! I would like to also add an event in Austin, Texas today. If you get a chance,could you forward this out? So excited to see such an international push for Troy!-Laura Brady, Austin CEDPDate: Thursday, October 23, 2008Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation: On the steps in front of the Texas Union fountain at UTStreet: Guadalupe between 21st and 24th St...
Only your action can save Troy Davis!
Posted on October 24, 2008Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on October 27, despite serious claims of innocence.Only your action can save Troy Davis! Dear Supporter,Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia on October 27, even though his serious claims of innocence have never been heard in court...
Lawyers for Alabama Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get to make their case early next year for DNA testing
Posted on October 24, 2008Lawyers for Alabama Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get to make their case early next year for DNA testing Wednesday, October 22, 2008 THE ISSUE: Lawyers for Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get to make their case early next year for DNA testing...
Global Day of Action for Troy Davis - October 23, 2008
Posted on October 24, 2008Fellow Abolitionists,Activists are working around the clock to stop the scheduled execution of Troy Davis from happening on October 27.The time is now to attend actions and contact public officials (contact info listed at the bottom of this message)...
Concerned Professors for Troy Davis
Posted on October 24, 2008Hello all, This is an initiative by Professors to show their support for Troy Davis.Already hundreds have signed on!!If you are a professor and would like to include your name in this growing list, please send me an email or respond to the email listed at the bottom of this message...
It is my duty to tell the world what happened - from Oslo today
Posted on October 16, 2008- Det er min plikt å fortelle verden om det som skjedde http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article2717747.ece Iraj Mesdaghi var politisk fange og unnslapp så vidt å bli henrettet. I går deltok han på et arrangement i Oslo mot dødsstraff. FOTO: SHAHRIAR NOURI Iraj Mesdaghi hørte at bestekameratens navn ble lest opp, og så ryggen hans forsvinne i enden av «dødens korridor» ANBJØRG BAKKEN Sommeren 1988 utstedte Irans øverste leder, ayatollah Khomeini, en fatwa om å drepe alle fanger som fortsatt erklærte støtte til opposisjonelle grupper og dermed "erklærte krig mot islam"...
An Opera is born - Oslo new Opera House - today exhibition from Texas death row
Posted on October 16, 2008An Opera is born Norway's new Opera House, due to open April 12, rises from the Oslo Fjord east of downtown, and will anchor a newly redeveloped waterfront district known as Bjørvika.
The new Oslo Opera House today
Posted on October 16, 2008You are here: /Home /Performances /Opera /Dead Beat Escapement DEAD BEAT ESCAPEMENT - a chamber opera of life and death Stage 2 The death penalty as entertainment? Yes, not only possible, but desirable.- When lives are taken in the name of the state, is it execution or murder? With this question the Norwegian composer Cecilie Ore started her research on a topic which is both current and has strong roots in our history: the death penalty...
Kerry Max Cook and Iraj from Iran in Oslo today
Posted on October 16, 2008Dømt til døden i Iran og USA: - Så vennene gå i døden http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=538384 Av Lars Akerhaug og Marianne Tessem 16.10.2008 kl. 18:30 Kilde: VG NETT OSLO/BLINDERN (VG Nett): Iraj Mesdaghi og Kerry Max satt i fengsel og ventet på døden...
The Long Road To The Davis Case
Posted on October 14, 2008The Long Road To The Davis Case Oct. 14, 2008(AP) Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and CBSNews.com. The decades-long, law-and-order-fueled trend toward restricting appellate avenues in criminal cases may be reaching its gruesome but inevitable conclusion in the case of Troy Davis, a death row inmate who apparently will be executed soon despite a series of post-trial revelations about his lack of culpability that ought to shock the conscience of even the most ardent supports of capital punishment...
STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!
Posted on October 14, 2008Announcing a Troy Davis Demonstration in Washington DC.For more information contact, mikestark2003@yahoo.comSTOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!US Supreme Court denies justice for Troy Davis & lifts stay of execution!What: Demonstration for Troy DavisWhen: Saturday, October 18th at 2 PMWhere: 14th St...
LAST DAY TO STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
Posted on September 23, 2008Fellow Abolitionists, The State of Georgia is scheduled to execute Troy Davis at 7 PM tonight. This is a travesty. There is no physical evidence in the case, and 7 out of 9 witnesses have recanted. Troy's legal options are dwindling. The Georgia Supreme Court, by a 6-1 vote, declined to issue a stay of execution today...
THIS IS THE DOCTOR WHO WILL PERFORM TROYS EXECUTION
Posted on September 23, 2008Info from Abolish :THIS IS THE DOCTOR WHO WILL PERFORM TROYS EXECUTIONTHE CORRECT SPELLING IS MUSSO NOT MUSTO Dr. Carlo Musto is a graduate of LSU School of Medicine. He also happens to be the doctor who will perform the execution this evening at 7 pm...
What`s the Rush?
Posted on September 21, 2008In the New York Times....September 20, 2008Op-Ed ColumnistWhat*s the Rush?By BOB HERBERTTroy Davis, who was convicted of shooting a police officer to death in the parking lot of a Burger King in Savannah, Ga., is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday...
Stay application to USSC for Richard Henyard
Posted on September 21, 2008No. 08A248 Title: Richard Henyard, Applicantv.FloridaDocketed:Lower Ct: Supreme Court of FloridaCase Nos.: (08-222, 08-1544, 08-1653)~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sep 19 2008 Application (08A248) for stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas...
Petition to USSC for writ of certiorari - Richard Henyard
Posted on September 21, 2008No. 08-6392 *** CAPITAL CASE *** Title: Richard Henyard, Petitioner v. Florida Docketed: September 18, 2008 Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida Case Nos.: (08-222, 08-1544, 08-1653) Decision Date: September 10, 2008 ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sep 18 2008 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed...
"It won't bring back my girls," she said recently.
Posted on September 21, 2008COMMENTARY Killer's execution would close chapter on mom's nightmare Lauren Ritchie | COMMENTARYSeptember 21, 2008 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/lake/orl-lritchie2108sep21,0,159878.column Dorothy Lewis likely will be at her Umatilla home cooking dinner by 6 p...
Lawyers for Richard Henyard of Eustis ask U.S. Supreme Court to stay execution
Posted on September 20, 2008Lawyers for Richard Henyard of Eustis ask U.S. Supreme Court to stay execution Stephen Hudak |Sentinel Staff Writer September 20, 2008 Richard Henyard, 34, is scheduled for execution this month for the murders of two Lake County girls. (ASSOCIATED PRESS / July 9, 2008) Lawyers for Richard Henyard turned to the U...
Bishops ask Gov. Crist to spare murderer?s life
Posted on September 20, 2008Bishops ask Gov. Crist to spare murderer?s life http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/rop/2008_rop/2008_roparticles/20080918_rop_bishops_execution.php DENISE O?TOOLE KELLY | FLORIDA CATHOLIC STAFF Posted: 09.18.08 Florida?s bishops asked Gov...
Catholic Bishops of Florida Urge Mercy for Richard Henyard
Posted on September 20, 2008http://www.flacathconf.org/Publications/pressreleases/Prsrel08/Henyard9-17-2008.htm 201 W. Park Avenue * Tallahassee, FL * 32301-7760 * www.flacathconf.org For Immediate ReleaseWednesday, September 17, 2008 Contacts: Michele M...
FLORIDA - KILLING MENTALLY ILL IS NO SOLUTION
Posted on September 10, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 FLORIDA - KILLING MENTALLY ILL IS NO SOLUTION The death penalty has one so called social purpose and that is to deter prospective offenders from commiting any future crimes. Though this is questionable in itself, and debatable in more ways than one, what is more frightening is when we impose a death sentence on an individual who is mentally ill and who has diminished capacities to understand and process information; an individual who is unable to communicate, to abstract from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others...
Troy Davis: Finality over Fairness
Posted on September 09, 2008Troy Davis: Finality over FairnessUPDATE: AN EXECUTION DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR SEPTEMBER 23 AT 7 p.m.Troy Davis, a man who may well be innocent, faces execution following a trial with no physical evidence. Further, 7 out of 9 state witnesses have since recanted or altered their testimony...
URGENT ACTION APPEAL - Troy Davis
Posted on September 09, 2008URGENT ACTION APPEAL - From Amnesty International USA09 September 2008UA 250/08 Death penalty / Legal concernUSA (Georgia) Troy Anthony Davis (m), black, aged 40Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7pm local time on 23September. He has been on death row for 17 years for a murder he maintainshe did not commit...
Doctors at Angel Diaz execution
Posted on September 05, 2008Testimony regarding Physician Assistant William Matthews role during the Diaz execution was conflicting: was he an observer or part of the team?The FDLE observer saw two medical people behind the executioners during Diaz. According to Matthews, he was there with two other medical people...
FL: Trial begins on gassing mentally ill inmates
Posted on September 05, 2008FL: Trial begins on gassing mentally ill inmatesSeptember 3, 2008 Trial begins on gassing mentally ill inmates By Paul Pinkham, The Times-Union A Jacksonville judge begins hearing evidence today about the use of pepper spray, tear gas and other chemical agents on mentally ill inmates by guards at Florida State Prison...
Clemency petition postpones Skillicorn execution
Posted on August 22, 2008Clemency petition postpones Skillicorn execution By JASON NOBLEThe Star?s Jefferson City correspondent function PopupPic(sPicURL, sHeight, sWidth) { window.open( "http://media.kansascity.com/static/popup.html?"+sPicURL, "", "resizable=1,HEIGHT=" +sHeight+ ",WIDTH=" +sWidth); } NBC Action News JEFFERSON CITY | The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed the scheduled execution of Dennis Skillicorn to give his lawyers more time to gather information for a clemency petition...
Dennis Skillicorn video
Posted on August 22, 2008You can see the video here :http://ozarksfirst.com/media_player.php?media_id=95791
LETTER: State of savagery in United States
Posted on August 22, 2008LETTER: State of savagery in United States Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:15 PM CDT When I read the Missouri Department of Corrections has scheduled the Aug...
Condemned inmate Dennis Skillicorn gets temporary reprieve
Posted on August 22, 2008Condemned inmate Dennis Skillicorn gets temporary reprieve Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 5:34 PM By Steve Walsh Convicted killer Dennis Skillicorn, scheduled for execution on August 27th, is going to live a while longer. The State Supreme Court has issued a couple of rulings in the Skillicorn case...
Catholics, Protestants ask Missouri to spare man's life
Posted on August 17, 2008Catholics, Protestants ask Missouri to spare man's life August 15, 2008 if (SITELIFE_ENABLED == true){ gSiteLife.Recommend("ExternalResource", "1109340,CST-NWS-relside15", "http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/religion/1109340,CST-NWS-relside15...
Sanders: Another execution is scheduled under flawed law-of-parties provision
Posted on August 17, 2008http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/bob_ray_sanders//index.htmlSunday, Aug 17, 2008 Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2008 Sanders: Another execution is scheduled under flawed law-of-parties provisionBOB RAY SANDERSbobray@star-telegram.com Make a note of this name: Jeffery Lee Wood...
Killeen inmate set to die receives stay of execution
Posted on August 16, 2008Aug. 15TEXAS----stay of impending executionKilleen inmate set to die receives stay of executionFor the 2nd time this year, a condemned Killeen killer received good news.Denard Manns, 43, was scheduled to die Aug. 20, but a U.S. district judgeordered that the execution be delayed since Manns was without counsel...
A gentle Garner dissident is jailed, unbowed
Posted on August 16, 2008http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1180159.html Mary Rider, 48, is the mother of eight children. A gentle Garner dissident is jailed, unbowedExecution protester gets a 15-day term By Yonat Shimron, Staff WriterComment on this story RALEIGH - Among the women confined at the jail on Hammond Road are prostitutes, crack users and an occasional domestic aggressor...
Study needed for Missouri death penalty
Posted on August 16, 2008Study needed for Missouri death penalty By JOE AMRINESpecial to The Star A particularly important anniversary took place at the end of July: the day the state of Missouri admitted it nearly put an innocent man to death for a crime he did not commit...
Group looks to prevent killer's death
Posted on August 16, 2008Group looks to prevent killer's death ST. LOUIS | An anti-death penalty group is asking Gov. Matt Blunt to commute the death sentence for convicted killer Dennis Skillicorn.Skillicorn, of Kansas City, is scheduled to die by injection on Aug...
AP Interview: Doctor behind executions speaks out
Posted on August 16, 2008AP Interview: Doctor behind executions speaks out CHERYL WITTENAUER | August 15, 2008 05:30 AM EST |http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080815/execution-doctor/ST. LOUISHe owns three Harleys, is a self-described staunch Roman Catholic _ and has helped kill dozens of men...
Mo. bishops oppose man`s execution
Posted on August 15, 2008August 15, 2008 Mo. bishops oppose man`s execution by Joseph Kenny, Review Staff Writer Bishop Robert Hermann has joined a group of religious leaders in the state who have asked Gov. Matt Blunt to spare the life of Dennis Skillicorn, who is set to be executed Aug...
Dennis Skillicorn
Posted on August 15, 2008Editor's Biography Dennis SkillicornPotosi Correctional Center573-438-6000Dennis Skillicorn, 44, was named editor of Compassion in March 2003 after serving as assistant editor the previous year. As editor, he focuses on victims and reconciliation. He also encourages other death row inmates to make positive contributions to Compassion, society, and their own environments...
Please sign the petition to help save Dennis Skillicorn
Posted on August 15, 2008Please sign the petition to help save Dennis Skillicorn http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-dennis-skillicorn
From Compassion - pray for Dennis Skillicorn
Posted on August 15, 2008Click on the picturefile to read
New resource: Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing
Posted on August 15, 2008New resource: Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing The Justice Project has developed a series of policy reviews on the leading causes of wrongful convictions that explain the problems and recommend common sense solutions Improving Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing: A Policy ReviewThis policy review provides an overview of problems with current post-conviction DNA testing laws, offers solutions to these problems, profiles cases of injustice, highlights states with good laws and policies for DNA testing, and includes a model policy...
Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency
Posted on August 15, 2008Email addy for Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles bpp-pio@tdcj.state.tx.us Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ Office of Governor Perry, P.O. Box 12428, Austin, Texas 78711, Phone: (512) 463-2000, Fax: (512) 463-1849 http://www...
Please call the Parole Board to save Jeff Wood
Posted on August 15, 2008Dear friend, We have seven days to save the life of a man who did not kill anyone. Jeff Wood is scheduled for execution in Texas on August 21, despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. If you have not yet written Governor Perry click here to contact Governor Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles...
Texas Man Who Didn't Kill May Be Executed
Posted on August 14, 2008Texas Man Who Didn't Kill May Be Executed Jeff Wood Didn't Kill Kris Keeran, but He Is Set to Be Executed for Keeran's Death By SCOTT MICHELS http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5532710&page=1 Aug. 8, 2008 var addthis_pub = 'abcnews'; Texas is scheduled to put a man to death this month even though he never killed anyone, in what would apparently be the first execution of its kind in more than a decade...
Save Jeff Wood - music video
Posted on August 14, 2008Rativist Capital-"X" advocates for Jeff Wood, an innocent man set to die by lethal injection on August 21, 2008 in Texas: Check it out and please pass it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouLkZNNTjk
New petition site for Jeff Wood
Posted on August 14, 2008New petition site for Jeff WoodWe closed Jeff's original petition in order to get the majority of signatures to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. We have people still interested in signing so we created another one. Here is the web address:http://www...
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley should lead the way
Posted on August 14, 2008Alabama Gov. Bob Riley should lead the way in trying to figure out what happened to rape evidence in the capital murder case against Thomas Arthur. Thursday, August 14, 2008 THE ISSUE: Gov. Bob Riley should lead the way in trying to figure out what happened to rape evidence in the capital murder case against Thomas Arthur...
Church leaders ask Blunt to commute death sentence
Posted on August 14, 2008Church leaders ask Blunt to commute death sentenceAugust 12, 2008 | 11:08 p.m. CDTBY CHRIS BLANK, The Associated PressJEFFERSON CITY ? Several religious leaders have asked Gov. Matt Blunt to grant clemency to a convicted killer scheduled to be executed Aug...
Should murder accomplices face execution?
Posted on August 14, 2008Should murder accomplices face execution? By John Gramlich, Stateline.orgStaff Writer An execution last month in Mississippi and another scheduled for this month in Texas have reignited a debate over whether the death penalty should be given to those who participate in killings ? but do not personally carry them out...
The letter from Ramsey Clark to Governor Perry
Posted on August 13, 2008RAMSEY CLARK TH LAWRENCE W. SCHILLING 37 WEST 12 STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011212-989-6613 212-979-1583 FAX August 12, 2008 The Honorable Rick PerryGovernor, State of TexasState Capitol, Room 2S.IAustin, Texas 78701 Ms. Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek BoulevardAustin, Texas 78757 Re: Jeffrey Wood, TDJC No...
Urge Governor Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency
Posted on August 13, 2008Urge Governor Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency Jeff Wood is waiting to die on Texas Death Row with an execution date of August 21st, 2008. This page allows you to directly contact Governor Perry and the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles via E-mail, on behalf of Jeff...
Petition for Jeff Woods closed with 2467 signatures
Posted on August 13, 2008http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-jeff-wood-from-the-texas-executioner
Wood seeks reprieve
Posted on August 13, 2008Wood seeks reprieve By Caleb Chapman The Daily Times Published August 9, 2008 Jeffery Lee Wood does not deserve to die.That?s the plea made in an application to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole seeking clemency for the man sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of a Kerrville convenience store clerk, Kriss Keeran...
Mike Farrell Writes Letter Asking for Clemency for Jeff Wood
Posted on August 13, 2008Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Mike Farrell Writes Letter Asking for Clemency for Jeff Wood From: Mike FarrellAugust 11, 2008Ms. Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.Austin, TX 78757Dear Ms. Owens,I write in support of clemency for Jeff Wood, who is scheduled to be executed in your state in ten days...
Medellin death penalty case exposes hollow Texas brand of gunslinger politics
Posted on August 10, 2008Excellent piece by the Austin CEDP's Bryan McCann...http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2008/07/medellin-death-penalty-case-exposes.phpHOTLINE BUZZReal-time perspectives on legal news by newsmakers, activists, legal experts and special guests...Friday, July 25, 2008Medellin death penalty case exposes hollow Texas brand of gunslinger politics10:30 AM ETBryan McCann [Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Austin, TX Chapter]:"Two years ago, a fellow anti-death penalty activist and I participated in a public debate on the University of Texascampus with the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT)...
Texas's Disdain
Posted on August 10, 2008The Washington Post - EditorialTexas's DisdainIn carrying out two executions, the state endangers Americansdetained abroad.Friday, August 8, 2008; A16THE STATE of Texas had an opportunity this week to display a victor'sgrace. Instead, it rebuffed pleas by the U...
Medellin execution highlights flaw in international law: experts
Posted on August 10, 2008Medellin execution highlights flaw in international law: expertsAugust 8, 2008THE HAGUE (AFP) ? The execution of a Mexican citizen by the UnitedStates against the orders of the UN's highest court highlights a flawin international law that enables countries to snub rulings without repercussions, experts say...
USSC order in Heliberto Chi
Posted on August 10, 2008(ORDER LIST: 554 U.S.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2008 CERTIORARI DENIED 08-5652 Chi, Heliberto V. Texas (O8A112) The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court is denied...
The Chi Execution
Posted on August 10, 2008The Chi Execution In the New York Times, David Stout reports, "Texas Executes Inmate After High Court Steps Aside."An Honduran immigrant convicted of murder was put to death in Texas on Thursday evening after the Supreme Court declined to block the execution, despite his lawyers? complaints that he should have been told that he could get assistance early on from Honduran diplomats...
Execution of Honduran Allowed
Posted on August 07, 2008Execution of Honduran Allowed That's the title of Lyle Denniston's updated post at SCOTUS Blog. LINKUPDATE 4:30 p.m. Without recorded dissent, the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon refused to delay the execution in Texas of a Honduran for a 2001 murder in Arlington, Texas...
A Renewed Focus on Consular Notification and Heliberto Chi
Posted on August 07, 2008A Renewed Focus on Consular Notification and Heliberto ChiWith the clock ticking toward's a 6:00 p.m. death warrant and legal papers filed at the Supreme Court, there is a new focus on the Chi case.At The BLT, Tony Mauro posts, "Supreme Court Weighs Another Texas Execution...
Chi Case at Supreme Court
Posted on August 07, 2008Chi Case at Supreme Court Lyle Denniston reports, "New treaty-based challenge to execution," at SCOTUS Blog.A Honduran national, scheduled to be executed Thursday evening in Texas, asked the Supreme Court Thursday morning to delay that process and hear his claim that Texas violated a U...
From UK's The Independent
Posted on August 07, 2008From UK's The Independent David Usborne writes, "The Big Question: Why is the United States still imposing the death penalty?" from New York. Here's an excerpt: What America does in its own prisons is its own business, most of the time...
Mexico Protests Medellin Exeuction
Posted on August 07, 2008Mexico Protests Medellin Exeuction "Mexican government protests Texas execution," is the CNN report.The United States violated international law by putting a Mexican national to death in Texas, the Mexican government said Wednesday. Protesters for and against Jose Ernesto Medellin's execution gathered before he was put to death Tuesday night in Huntsville, Texas, for raping and murdering two teens in 1993...
Heliberto Chi
Posted on August 07, 2008Heliberto ChiFor the second time in two weeks a Texas execution threatens to violate international law. Like Jose Medellin, law enforcement officials failed to provide Heliberto Chi the consular notification that he had the right to contact the government of Honduras at the time he was arrested...
Statements of Attorneys in the Medellin Case
Posted on August 07, 2008Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Statements of Attorneys in the Medellin Case This is from Sandra Babcock, one of Jose Medellin's attorneys:Congress should act immediately to implement the Avena judgment and provide for judicial review in the cases of other Mexican nationals who were denied consular access...
Commentary: Medellin
Posted on August 06, 2008Commentary: Medellin, via SCOTUSblog von Lyle Denniston am 06.08.08 Commentary Many thousands of words about the death penalty have beeen written or spoken to or by the Supreme Court in recent months, but in the past few days the Court ? supposedly on its summer break ? has had to think hard about the meaning of silence...
Execution in Texas: US should end its pick and choose attitude towards international law
Posted on August 06, 2008Press release - 570(2008)Execution in Texas: US should end its pick and choose attitudetowards international lawStatement by Council of Europe Secretary General Terry DavisStrasbourg, 06.08.2008 - ?I am most concerned by the execution ofMexican national José Medellin yesterday in Texas...
You still have all those Mexicans sitting on death rows in the United States
Posted on August 06, 2008Well you still have all those Mexicans sitting on death rows in the United States. so Mexico could do two things, suggested before: 1. invoke the Arbitration Clause of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; 2. negotiate and conclude an international executive agreement with the United States government settling this entire dispute that could then be enforced upon the States of the Union holding Mexicans on death row under the Belmont and Pink cases...
Technically, it was the United States of America that defied the World Court and the United Nations Charter
Posted on August 06, 2008Technically, it was the United States of America that defied the World Court and the United Nations Charter.fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc...
This statement by the State Department is not true
Posted on August 06, 2008This statement by the State Department is not true:1. The United States government had an obligation to intervene in thelatest request to the Supreme Court for a Stay, which it failed andrefused to do.2. The USG could have entered into an international executive agreementwith Mexico resolving this dispute one way or another, which then couldhave been enforced against the State of Texas by the US Supreme Courtunder the Belmont and Pink Cases...
US LOST ITS LAST CREDIBILITY IN THIS WORLD
Posted on August 06, 2008Dont ever believe in any signatures from US anymore. Signatures can be circumvented as they please americans anytime. US has decided an isolation policy. Sorry, but you lost it all. americans. Your chance is gone.
USSC OPINION ON APPLICATION TO RECALL AND STAY MANDATE
Posted on August 06, 2008http://josemedellin.info/legal/medellin-opinion-8-5-08.pdfCite as: 554 U. S. ____ (2008) Per Curiam SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Nos. 06?984 (08A98), 08?5573 (08A99), and 08?5574 (08A99) JOSE ERNESTO MEDELLIN06?984 (08A98) v.TEXAS ON APPLICATION TO RECALL AND STAY MANDATE AND FORSTAY JOSE ERNESTO MEDELLIN08?5573 (08A99) v...
UN chief appeals for stay in execution
Posted on August 05, 2008UN chief appeals for stay in execution Article from: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Mexico City August 06, 2008 05:07am UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called on the United States to abide by a ruling of the International Court of Justice and stay the scheduled execution of a Mexican prisoner in Texas...
SUPPLEMENTAL APPENDIX - Jose Medellin
Posted on August 05, 2008Nos. 08-5573, 08-5574, 08A98 & 08A99 ===================================== IN THE Supreme Court of the United States --------------------------------- . --------------------------------- JOSÉ ERNESTO MEDELLÍN, Petitioner, vs...
REPLY TO BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PETITION FOR CERTIORARI - Jose Medellin
Posted on August 05, 2008http://www.josemedellin.info/legal/medellin-reply.pdfNos. 08-5573, 08-5574, 08A98 & 08A99 ===================================================================== IN THE Supreme Court of the United States --------------------------------- ...
For the United States government and the Mexican government to enter into an immediate international executive agreement settling this matter
Posted on August 05, 2008As I suggested before the only effective thing to be done would be for the United States government and the Mexican government to enter into an immediate international executive agreement settling this matter, then for either one or both governments to seek the enforcement of this agreement in a United States federal court...
US VIOLATIONS
Posted on August 05, 2008His execution would violate The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations;The Optional Protocol thereto; two Orders of Provisional Measures of Protection on his behalf by the World Court ; one Judgment by the World Court on his behalf; and the United Nations Charter...
Protecting them protects us
Posted on August 04, 2008Protecting them protects us Why you should care about what happens to 51 Mexican nationals on death row. By Jeffrey DavidowAugust 4, 2008 In one of his earliest comedies, Woody Allen had a stereotypical pompous U.S. ambassador bellow to an equally stereotypical group of thuggish Eastern European cops that no American could be dragged off and shot without his personal approval...
Governor Rick Perry Must Halt Medellin Execution Immediately
Posted on August 04, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 4, 20082:30 PM http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0804-08.htm CONTACT: Amnesty International USAWende Gozan at 212-633-4247or Brian Evans at 202-544-0200 x496 Governor Rick Perry Must Halt Medellin Execution Immediately,Says Amnesty InternationalTexas Goes 'Beyond the Pale if it Insists on Going Forward' With Execution WASHINGTON - August 4 - Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to stay the execution of José Medellin to comply with a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice, or World Court...
Texas parole board won't stop execution of Mexican
Posted on August 04, 2008Posted on Monday, August 4, 2008Texas parole board won't stop execution of MexicanBy Dave Montgomery | McClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON ? The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Mondayunanimously recommended against a reprieve for Jose Ernesto Medellin,a Mexican national who's facing execution in Texas on Tuesday forraping and murdering two teenage girls 15 years ago in Houston...
Case highlights broader concern
Posted on August 04, 2008Case highlights broader concern August 4, 2008 http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080804/OPINION01/808020329 A lot of heated rhetoric has bounced back and forth in the case of Thomas Arthur, the Alabama inmate sentenced to die for a murder committed more than 26 years ago...
From the statement of Judge Price, CCA Texas
Posted on August 04, 2008V. Executive Clemency For all of the above reasons, this Court is not at liberty to stop the applicant's execution. But the Governor is. The applicant informs us that he has requested that the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommend to the Governor that he grant the applicant a 240-day reprieve so that there will be time for the proposed federal legislation to be considered in Congress...
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS
Posted on August 03, 2008http://www.josemedellin.info/legal/08-5573-medellin-petition.pdfNo. 08-_____===============================================================IN THESupreme Court of the United States--------------------------------- . ---------------------------------JOS? ERNESTO MEDELL?N,Petitioner,vs...
Application for stay in Jose Medellin
Posted on August 03, 2008Can be read here :http://www.josemedellin.info/legal/08a99-medellin.pdf
Motion to recall and stay the court`s mandate In Medellin vs Texas
Posted on August 03, 2008Can be read here :http://www.josemedellin.info/legal/08a98-medellin.pdf
ON PETITION FOR ORIGINAL WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS - Jose Medellin
Posted on August 03, 2008No. 08-_____ =============================================================== IN THE Supreme Court of the United States --------------------------------- . --------------------------------- IN RE JOSÉ ERNESTO MEDELLÍN, Petitioner, --------------------------------- ...
Time to end the death penalty's cycle of violence
Posted on August 03, 2008Editorials & Opinions Posted on Sun, Aug. 03, 2008 Time to end the death penalty's cycle of violence By RONALD CARLSON Special to the Star-Telegram function PopupPic(sPicURL, sHeight, sWidth) { window.open( "http://media.star-telegram...
Binding legal obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs.
Posted on August 03, 2008July 17, 2008 The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader U.S. Senate 528 Senate Hart Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Joseph Biden Chairman, Committee on ForeignRelations U.S. Senate 438 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy Chairman, Committee on Judiciary U...
Mexican National Seeks Last-Minute Reprieve From Death Penalty
Posted on August 03, 2008Mexican National Seeks Last-Minute Reprieve From Death PenaltyPOSTED: 3:54 pm CDT August 1, 2008UPDATED: 4:00 pm CDT August 1, 2008WASHINGTON -- Four months after losing his case at the Supreme Court, a Mexican citizen facing execution next week in Texas asked the justices Friday for a last-minute reprieve...
Phone Governor Perry to stay Medellin :
Posted on August 03, 2008Phone Governor Perry to stay Medellin : GOVERNOR PERRY'S PHONE NUMBER: 1 512 463 2000 GOVERNOR PERRY'S FAX NUMBER: 1 512 463 1849
Move to head off Medellin execution
Posted on August 03, 2008From Scotus BLOG :Move to head off Medellin executionFriday, August 1st, 2008 1:58 pm | Lyle DennistonFURTHER UPDATE 4:50 p.m. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has now refused to issue a stay of the execution and has dismissed the latest state court challenge...
Medellin v. Texas - SCOTUS WIKI
Posted on August 03, 2008Read the case here :http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Medellin_v._Texas
Despite calls for delay, Mexican citizen set for execution
Posted on August 03, 2008http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5919299.html Despite calls for delay, Mexican citizen set for execution By ALLAN TURNER Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has dealt capital killer Jose Medellin a major setback in his bid to escape the executioner's needle, throwing out his bid for a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus and his motion for a stay...
AMERICANS ABROAD ENDANGERED?
Posted on August 03, 2008Texas set to defy World Court with execution03 Aug 2008 12:20:48 GMT Source: Reuters By Ed StoddardAMERICANS ABROAD ENDANGERED?Support for the death penalty may be strong in Texas but opinion on the issue is by no means uniform...
The interview with Sherrie Stone on the Pamela Furr show
Posted on August 03, 2008Listen to the interview with Sherrie Stone on the Pamela Furr show :http://www.thomasarthur.info/media/pamelafurr_2008-07-28T17_33_31-07_00.mp3
Listen to the Pamela Furr show on Thomas Arthur case
Posted on August 03, 2008Listen to the Pamela Furr show on Thomas Arthur case http://www.thomasarthur.info/media/pamelafurr_2008-07-28T17_31_11-07_00.mp3
Alabama must improve handling of key evidence
Posted on August 03, 2008Alabama must improve handling of key evidence http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080803/NEWS/723391437/0/NEWS03 Published: Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 3:30 a.m.Last Modified: Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 9:40 p.m. Alabama Attorney General Troy King calls Bobby Gilbert, whose 11th-hour murder confession apparently led the state Supreme Court to delay the execution of Thomas Arthur, 'an incredible person' ? meaning that Gilbert lacks credibility...
Help Dennis Skillicorn
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The filing to Alabama Supreme Court, which gave the stay for Thomas Arthur
Posted on August 01, 2008The filing to Alabama Supreme CourtClick on the image to readClick on the image to read
Even Thomas Arthur deserves justice
Posted on August 01, 2008http://www.al.com/opinion/huntsvilletimes/dperson.ssf?/base/opinion/121758214544970.xml&coll=1 Opinion Columnist David Person Even Thomas Arthur deserves justice Friday, August 01, 2008 Huntsville Times Imagine the joy in my little anti-death penalty heart when I learned that the Alabama Supreme Court granted Thomas Arthur his third stay of execution on Wednesday...
Update: Media coverage of stay in Alabama case
Posted on August 01, 2008Innocence Blog Update: Media coverage of stay in Alabama case http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/1499.php Posted: July 31, 2008 10:15 amYesterday, Tommy Arthur?s execution (previously set for today) was stayed by the Alabama Supreme Court. Read media coverage of the developments below...
Big news from Alabama
Posted on August 01, 2008Dear Thank you for writing to Alabama Gov. Bob Riley expressing your views aboutthe case of Tommy Arthur. Your voice makes a difference and we?re writingtoday to share some important news in the case. On Wednesday, the Alabama Supreme Court blocked Arthur?s execution, which had been scheduled for Thursday, until the court can consider criticalnew evidence in the case...
State can't find rape kit in Thomas Arthur case
Posted on July 30, 2008http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/07/state_cant_find_rape_kit_in_th.html State can't find rape kit in Thomas Arthur case Posted by Stan Diel -- Birmingham News July 30, 2008 2:40 PMAn attorney for the state of Alabama in a filing today says he has been unable to locate a rape kit tied to the case of Death Row inmate Thomas D...
New developments in Alabama case; Governor should stay execution to conduct DNA testing
Posted on July 30, 2008Innocence BlogNew developments in Alabama case; Governor should stay execution to conduct DNA testingPosted: July 30, 2008 11:55 amTommy Arthur has been on Alabama?s death row for a quarter-century for a murder he says he didn?t commit. He is scheduled to be executed tomorrow night, and the Alabama Supreme Court rejected one of his final appeals yesterday by a 6-2 vote...
Dueling affidavits on eve of Arthur execution
Posted on July 30, 2008Dueling affidavits on eve of Arthur execution http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-37/121743836557530.xml&storylist=alabamanews 7/30/2008, 12:13 p.m. CDT By GARRY MITCHELL The Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) ? On the eve of Thomas Arthur's scheduled execution, attorneys were in court with dueling affidavits ? one from a convicted murderer who claims he's guilty of the killing that sent Arthur to death row, and another disputing that claim...
Clearly, these claims must be investigated before the execution occurs
Posted on July 30, 2008Thomas Arthur is to be executed Thursday for a murder another prisoner now claims he committed. Clearly, these claims must be investigated before the execution occurs Wednesday, July 30, 2008 http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1217405808196090...
Examination of crime scene - Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 30, 2008Click on the images to read themClick on the images to read them
Convicted murderer serving life says he, not Thomas Arthur, killed Troy Wicker Jr. in 1982
Posted on July 30, 2008Assistant Alabama Attorney General Clay Crenshaw Convicted murderer serving life says he, not Thomas Arthur, killed Troy Wicker Jr. in 1982 Convicted murderer says he killed Troy Wicker http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1217405743196090...
Other inmate confesses to killing; widow disputes it
Posted on July 30, 2008Arthur denied execution delay Other inmate confesses to killing; widow disputes it http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080730/NEWS/319226380/1003/news01&title=Arthur_denied_execution_delay By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Published: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 3:30 a...
Affidavit: another inmate admits Wicker killing
Posted on July 29, 2008Affidavit: another inmate admits Wicker killingJuly 29, 2008 16:31 EDT http://www.wztv.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.al/2652e22e-www.fox17.com.shtml MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Attorneys attempting to delay Thomas Arthur's execution have sent Gov...
HI Governor Riley
Posted on July 29, 2008HI Governor Riley I have been following the case of Tommy Arthur from all the out here in Los Angeles and decided I should write to you. I am asking you to grant a stay of execution and order the DNA testing that will clear up for once and all the guilt or innocence of Mr Tommy Arthur...
Honorable Governor Riley
Posted on July 29, 2008Honorable Governor Riley: This letter comes to you in the hopes that you truly listen to what the people [you represent] have to say. I write to you today concerning the life of Mr. Thomas Arthur, so please do not dismiss me, until you have read the (entire) letter I have taken the time to write, as that is the least of which you should grant...
Listen to the Pamela show with Sherrie Stone and incoming calls
Posted on July 29, 2008First hour :http://www.thomasarthur.info/media/pamelafurr_2008-07-28T17_33_31-07_00.mp3Second hour :http://www.thomasarthur.info/media/pamelafurr_2008-07-28T17_31_11-07_00.mp3
Dear Honorable Governor Riley
Posted on July 29, 2008Letter to Governor Riley, 7-29-08, sent via email through his official website: Subject: Prison and Paroles Re: Mr. Thomas Arthur's Execution Dear Honorable Governor Riley: During your time in office you have used the name of Jesus, spoken of your faith and of doing the right thing...
Two days to execution in Alabama, still no DNA test
Posted on July 29, 2008Two days to execution in Alabama, still no DNA test www.innocenceproject.org For nearly 25 years, Tommy Arthur has sat on Alabama?s death row. His appeals have been repeatedly denied, and he is now scheduled to die on Thursday night, July 31, despite the fact that critical evidence in his case has still not been subjected to DNA testing...
W?tpliwo?ci kata - o karze ?mierci w USA
Posted on July 29, 2008W?tpliwo?ci kata - o karze ?mierci w USA Marc Pitzk 2008-07-29, ostatnia aktualizacja 2008-07-29 11:29 http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80281,5500915,Watpliwosci_kata___o_karze_smierci_w_USA.html Thomas Arthur ze stanu Alabama od 1982 roku czeka w celi ?mierci na egzekucj?...
SHERRIE STONE LIVE on Thomas Arthur case NOW
Posted on July 28, 2008LISTEN and Call 1-866-494-WVNN in 2 minutes at 5 PM http://player.cumulusstreaming.com/Audioplay.html?WVNN-AM And the website is here : http://www.wvnn.com/pamela.shtml
To Governor Riley from Mario in Italy
Posted on July 28, 2008Kind Mr Governor, I am italian and catholic. I am sorry if my english it is bad. I write at His Person for Mr Thomas Arthur, inmate of the Alabama State. Kind I ask of to stop his execution and to grant to him the possibility to show his innocence through the Dna test...
Federal officials try to block Texas execution to allow world court review of case
Posted on July 28, 2008Federal officials try to block Texas execution to allow world court review of case12:00 AM CDT on Monday, July 28, 2008By DIANE JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning Newsdjennings@dallasnews.comFourteen years and numerous judicial reviews have passed since José Medellin was sentenced to die after confessing to the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston...
Arthur's fate can be tied to DNA tests
Posted on July 28, 2008Arthur's fate can be tied to DNA tests Sunday, July 27, 2008 HANS SHERRER http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/121714657049090.xml&coll=2 We like to think the legal system gets it right when a person is convicted of murder and sentenced to prison or death...
Mo. Supreme Court to set execution date
Posted on July 28, 2008July 26MISSOURI---new execution dateMo. Supreme Court to set execution dateThe Missouri Supreme Court said Friday it plans to set a date for thestate's 1st execution since 2005.The court announced it would issue a warrant to execute Dennis Skillicornon Aug...
WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR.
Posted on July 28, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 7, 2008 WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR. Allowing the State of Alabama to execute Thomas Arthur in the full knowledge that strong doubtexists concerning the certainty of his guilt, doubt which could be resolved with DNA testing,amounts to nothing less than murder...
Former Dartmouth resident, once on Florida death row, freed
Posted on July 26, 2008Former Dartmouth resident, once on Florida death row, freed http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/NEWS/807260329 By Brian Boyd Standard-Times staff writer July 26, 2008 6:00 AM A Dartmouth native who spent 13 years on Florida's death row in a murder-for-hire case was released Friday after he agreed to a plea deal, his lawyer said...
Clemency in Oklahoma
Posted on July 25, 2008Clemency in Oklahoma The Oklahoman reports, "Governor commutes inmate's death sentence."Gov. Brad Henry today approved clemency for death row inmate Kevin Young. The governor commuted his sentence to life without the possibility of parole as recommended by the state Pardon and Parole Board...
Attorneys Urge Congressional Leaders to Address Issue of Mexican Nationals on Death Row
Posted on July 24, 2008Attorneys Urge Congressional Leaders to Address Issue of Mexican Nationals on Death Row http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423200889 Marcia CoyleThe National Law JournalJuly 24, 2008 image: New York Law Journal The current president and nine past presidents of the American Society of International Law have written to congressional leaders urging them to take legislative action to resolve a treaty dispute between Mexico and the United States over Mexican nationals on death row in the U...
Suit challenges Mo.'s lethal injection
Posted on July 24, 2008Suit challenges Mo.'s lethal injection By Cheryl Wittenauer ASSOCIATED PRESS 07/24/2008ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Inmates, families, clergy and legislators claimed in a new lawsuit that Missouri's method of lethal injection violates state law. Meanwhile, a doctor who once performed executions in Missouri apparently has resurfaced in Arizona...
Dyslexic doc involved in lethal injection in Arizona
Posted on July 24, 2008From the blog : "Sentencing, Law and Policy" :July 24, 2008 Dyslexic doc involved in lethal injection in Arizona http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2008/07/dyslexic-doc-in.html As first discussed here two years ago, a federal judge ordered Missouri's machinery of death to come to a halt in 2006 based in part on evidence that the doctor involved in lethal injections readily admitted that he is dyslexic and had thus could have problems carrying out the execution protocol...
Doctor Banned From Executions in Missouri Now In Arizona
Posted on July 24, 2008From Standdown BLOG :Doctor Banned From Executions in Missouri Now In Arizona That's the title of a report in today's Arizona Republic. LINK http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/2008/07/doctor-banned-f.html A Missouri surgeon who was banned by a federal judge from taking part in capital executions by lethal injection in his home state apparently participated in Arizona's most recent execution...
Doctor banned from executions in Mo. now in Ariz.
Posted on July 24, 2008ARIZONA:Doctor banned from executions in Mo. now in Ariz.A Missouri surgeon who was banned by a federal judge from taking part incapital executions by lethal injection in his home state apparentlyparticipated in Arizona's most recent execution.Dr. Alan Doerhoff is believed to have taken part in the May 22, 2007,execution of Robert Comer, 11 months after Doerhoff's Missourilethal-injection procedure was ruled unconstitutional and eight monthsafter the physician was prohibited from further executions in Missouribecause of questions about his standards and competence...
11 circuit order in Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 24, 2008http://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/The11circuitorder.htmhttp://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/Arthur07-23-08-11thCircuitorder0001.pdf4043356662 11 th Circuit Clerk's Offic 10:24:45 a.m. 07-24-2008 1/7 for the 'E£'EY'ENI':Jf CI'RCW'I' C{erR's Office 56 :Forsyth St...
Appeals panel won't stop Arthur execution
Posted on July 24, 2008Breaking News Appeals panel won't stop Arthur execution http://www.annistonstar.com/breaking/2008/as-wireupdate-0724-0-8g24m1354.htm By Garry MitchellAssociated Press Writer Updated 12:23 p.m. MOBILE ? A federal appeals panel has denied a stay of execution for 66-year-old Thomas Arthur, who faces lethal injection next week in Alabama for a 1982 murder...
Letter to Governor Riley from Rev. David J. Tokarz, Pastor
Posted on July 24, 200824 July 2008 The Honorable Bob Riley, Governor State Capitol 600 Dexter Avenue Montgomery, AL 36150 Dear Governor Riley: I write to encourage you in the strongest possible terms to grant a stay of execution to Thomas Arthur pending DNA testing to establish his guilt or innocence definitively...
Lawsuit challenges Missouri?s lethal injection
Posted on July 24, 2008Lawsuit challenges Missouri?s lethal injectionST. LOUIS | Inmates, families, clergy and legislators are initiating a new civil action that challenges Missouri?s method of lethal injection, claiming it violates the state?s Administrative Procedure Act...
Event Video: Boumediene and Medellin: The Supreme Court?s 2008 International Law Opinions
Posted on July 24, 2008Event Video: Boumediene and Medellin: The Supreme Court?s 2008 International Law Opinionshttp://www.asil.org/asiltv/video_080701.html July 1, 2008 The International Law Section Public International and Criminal Law Committee Litigation Section of the DC Bar in cooperation with the American Society of International Law presented a luncheon program...
Urge Congressional Leaders to Address Issue of Mexican Nationals on Death Row
Posted on July 24, 2008Marcia CoyleThe National Law JournalJuly 24, 2008 image: New York Law Journal The current president and nine past presidents of the American Society of International Law have written to congressional leaders urging them to take legislative action to resolve a treaty dispute between Mexico and the United States over Mexican nationals on death row in the U...
VIRGINIA: Killer scheduled to die today
Posted on July 24, 2008VIRGINIA: Killer scheduled to die today Associated Press ? July 24, 2008 RICHMOND ? A man who beat a co-worker to death with a lamp and then claimed Virginia's method of executing prisoners by lethal injection was inhumane was scheduled to die today at 9 p...
Thomas Arthur, slated for execution next week, asks court to give his attorneys access to evidence for DNA testing
Posted on July 24, 2008Thomas Arthur, slated for execution next week, asks court to give his attorneys access to evidence for DNA testing Wednesday, July 23, 2008 http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/121680109623450.xml&coll=2 STAN DIEL News staff writer Thomas Arthur, scheduled to be executed next week for the 1982 murder of Muscle Shoals' Troy Wicker Jr...
Oppose execution and support DNA tests for Thomas Arthur in Alabama
Posted on July 24, 2008Oppose execution and support DNA tests for Thomas Arthur in AlabamaThomas Arthur is scheduled for execution on July 31 in Alabama. The state is pursuing his execution even though his conviction was based mainly on the testimony of an admitted perjurer who had an incentive to lie at his trial...
HELP STOP VIRGINIA`S 102nd EXECUTION July 24th
Posted on July 24, 2008V A Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty PO Box 4804 â? Charlottesville, VA 22905 (434) 960-7779 â? (888) 567-VADP â?Fax (434) 984-2803 office@VADP.org â?  www.vadp.org D P HELP STOP VIRGINIAâ??S 102nd EXECUTION â?? July 24th Christopher Scott Emmett is scheduled to be killed by the people of Virginia at 9 p...
Letter to Governor Riley - Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 24, 2008Honorable Governor Riley, July 23, 2008 I have always had the utmost and deepest respect for you and the fine service you have given to your country and the state of Alabama, and the integrity and honesty with which you have conducted your government and private matters...
'JUDICIAL MURDER'
Posted on July 23, 200807/23/2008 http://www.spiegel.de:80/international/world/0,1518,567593,00.html 'JUDICIAL MURDER' Despite Doubts, Alabama Man Faces Execution By Marc Pitzke in New York Thomas Arthur has been on death row since 1982. His execution is set for July 31 -- although strong doubts remain about his guilt...
Push to Stop Arkansas' Next Scheduled Execution
Posted on July 23, 20082:40 p.m. - Push to Stop Arkansas' Next Scheduled Execution http://arkansasmatters.com:80/content/fulltext/news/?cid=88871 Reported by: KARK 4 News Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 @02:42pm CST Attorneys for the first inmate scheduled to be executed in Arkansas in three years have petitioned for a reduction in his sentence to life imprisonment without parole...
Letter from pro bono counsel to Governor Riley - Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 23, 2008Click on the picturefile to read the letter
Thomas Arthur`s motion for access to DNA evidence before July 31, 2008
Posted on July 23, 2008http://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/DNAmotion.htmhttp://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/Arthur07-21-08ASCDNAMotion.pdfIN THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA --------------------------- EXECUT:ION DATE SCHEDULED FOR JULY 31, 2008 v. ))))Peti tioner, ))))) Case No...
WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR.
Posted on July 23, 2008http://www.thomasarthur.info/Arthurdraft.htmFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 7, 2008 WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR. Allowing the State of Alabama to execute Thomas Arthur in the full knowledge that strong doubtexists concerning the certainty of his guilt, doubt which could be resolved with DNA testing,amounts to nothing less than murder...
Bishop asks for clemency, Miss. execution pending
Posted on July 23, 2008Bishop asks for clemency, Miss. execution pending (Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:05 PM CDT)JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Barring a reprieve from the courts or clemency from the governor, Dale Leo Bishop will be executed Wednesday for participating in the claw hammer beating death of one of his friendsThe execution is scheduled for 6 p...
Next Missouri execution set for September
Posted on July 23, 2008Posted on Tue, Jul. 22, 2008 04:16 PM Next Missouri execution set for September The Missouri Supreme Court today announced a September date for the state?s first execution since 2005. The court previously stayed a scheduled July 30 execution for John Middleton, a northern Missouri drug dealer convicted of killing three people in two separate cases...
Letter to Governor Perry
Posted on July 22, 2008Governor Perry: When you took your oath of office as governor, did you swear to uphold the constitution of the United States? Does Texas conduct its own foreign policy? Is Texas part of the United States, or is it a rogue nation? Sir, Texas is bound by US treaty obligations, not only when you want...
Congress must stop Texas
Posted on July 22, 2008EDITORIALS Congress must stop Texas Sunday, July 20, 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that the president cannot force Texas to review the death penalty case of Jose Er nesto Medellin, as the World Court wants. But Congress can and should...
Urgent Action for Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 22, 2008http://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/urgentaction.htm 8 July 2008UA 195/08 Death penalty/Legal concernUSA (Alabama) Thomas Douglas Arthur (m), white, aged 66 Thomas Arthur is scheduled for execution on 31 July in Alabama. The state is pursuing his execution even though hisconviction was based mainly on the testimony of an admitted perjurer who had an incentive to lie at his trial...
Perry has chance to show another side of Texas justice
Posted on July 22, 2008July 21, 2008, 10:10PMPerry has chance to show another side of Texas justiceGovernor should honor U.S. commitment to treaty termsBy STATE SEN. RODNEY ELLIS and CRAIG JACKSONCopyright 2008 Houston ChronicleLast Wednesday's decision by the International Court of Justice, theWorld Court, ordering the stay of the executions of several Mexicaninmates in Texas, pending review and reconsideration of theirconvictions, was the right thing to do...
Letter from Justice Denied to Governor Riley - Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 22, 2008The letter can be found herehttp://justicedenied.org/gov_riley_letter.pdf
Urgent action Jose Medellin
Posted on July 21, 2008http://www.josemedellin.info/legal/urgentaction.htmhttp://www.josemedellin.info/legal/uaa20408.pdfAmnesty International's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights...
Stop the execution of Jeff Wood
Posted on July 20, 2008http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/223/t/7156/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25043Jeff Wood is waiting to die on Texas Death Row with an execution date of August 21st, 2008. Please contactGovernor Perry and the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles on behalf of Jeff Wood...
Miss. to execute man not directly at fault in killing
Posted on July 20, 2008Miss. to execute man not directly at fault in killingThirteen states, military bar execution of criminals in such murder casesJERRY MITCHELL ? JMITCHELL@CLARIONLEDGER.COM ? JULY 20, 2008Mississippi prison officials plan to execute Dale Leo Bishop Wednesday - unless a court halts them...
Judge: ?World?s eyes on Guantanamo?; Lawyers: no appeal now
Posted on July 19, 2008Judge: ?World?s eyes on Guantanamo?; Lawyers: no appeal now From Scotus Blog :Judge: ?World?s eyes on Guantanamo?; Lawyers: no appeal nowFriday, July 18th, 2008 1:01 pm | Lyle Denniston UPDATE 2:15 p.m. The judge?s refusal to delay the Hamdan trial starting Monday will not be challenged in a higher court...
Md. Surveillance Ended in 2006, Governor Says
Posted on July 19, 2008Activist Groups Not Being WatchedMd. Surveillance Ended in 2006, Governor SaysBy Lisa ReinWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, July 19, 2008; B01Gov. Martin O'Malley said yesterday that the Maryland State Policehave ceased the surveillance of war protesters and death penaltyopponents conducted under his predecessor, Robert L...
Letter to Governor Riley - Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 19, 2008Governor Bob RileyI am concerned that the State of Alabama has set a new execution date in the case of Thomas Arthur despite the fact that there has been no DNA testing in the face of serious doubt about his guilt. Arthur was sentenced to death for the murder of Troy Wicker in 1982, yet maintains his innocence...
Stopping the Execution of Mexican Citizens in the United States
Posted on July 19, 2008Subject: Stopping the Execution of Mexican Citizens in the United States Dear Friends: In light of the execution of a Mexican Citizen by the State of Texas last week, I would like to revive a strategy to stop such executions that I worked on a few years ago with Alvaro Luna: Namely, try to convince the Mexican government to invoke the arbitration clause of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo...
USA (Texas) Jose Ernesto Medellin Rojas (m), Mexican national, aged 33
Posted on July 19, 2008URGENT ACTION APPEAL- From Amnesty International USATo read the current Urgent Action newsletter, go tohttp://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent/newslett.html----------------------------------For a print-friendly version of this Urgent Action (PDF):http://www...
Judge delays ruling on DNA tests in 1983 slayings near Sherman
Posted on July 19, 2008July 18TEXAS:Judge delays ruling on DNA tests in 1983 slayings near ShermanAfter a contentious 90-minute hearing, a state district judge on Thursdaydelayed ruling on whether possible evidence in a 1983 quadruple slayingshould be submitted for further DNA analysis...
Initial brief filed in Richard Henyard
Posted on July 19, 2008IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. SC08-222 RICHARD HENYARD, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ON APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FOR LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA INITIAL BRIEF OF APPELLANT Mark S...
Florida Supreme Court orders new briefing schedule in Richard Henyard
Posted on July 19, 2008SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDATHURSDAY, JULY 10,2008CASE NO.: SC08-222 Lower Tribunal No(s).: 93-159-CF RICHARD HENYARD vs. STATE OF FLORIDAAppellant(s) Appellee(s)Appellant's Motion to Relinquish Jurisdiction to the Trial Court in Light of Baze v. Rees is hereby denied; however, in light of the scheduled execution of appellant on September 23, 2008, the trial court has jurisdiction to consider any successive motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3...
Torture As Official US Policy
Posted on July 19, 2008Torture As Official US Policy by Stephen Lendman / July 19th, 2008 Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush ? authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to surface. First some background...
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names
Posted on July 19, 2008Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the ACLU based upon the government's own reported numbers for the size of the list."America's new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what's wrong with this administration's approach to security: it's unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent as an afterthought, and is a very real impediment in the lives of millions of travelers in this country," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Program...
JUDGE MILLS ALLOWS APPEAL ABOUT POOR COUNSEL ISSUE
Posted on July 19, 2008JUDGE MILLS ALLOWS APPEAL ABOUT POOR COUNSEL ISSUE7/19/2008 9:19:16 AMDaily JournalBY PATSY R. BRUMFIELDDaily JournalOXFORD - Dale Leo Bishop of Guntown, condemned for his role in a 1998murder-kidnapping, can try to convince the 5th Circuit Court ofAppeals that incompetent counsel cost him a chance at life in prisoninstead of the death penalty...
Update from Guantánamo
Posted on July 19, 2008Update from Guantánamo A federal district judge ruled Thursday that the military trial of Yemeni national Salim Hamdan can proceed, despite acknowledging questions about the constitutionality of the Guantánamo military commission system. The ACLU is at Guantánamo Bay this week in order to observe Hamdan?s hearings...
The ACLU file on Maryland surveillance
Posted on July 19, 2008The ACLU file on Maryland surveillancehttp://www.aclu-md.org/aPress/Attachments/MSP_Documents.pdf
Police Spied on Activists In Md.
Posted on July 18, 2008http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701287.htmlPolice Spied on Activists In Md.Officers Infiltrated Groups During Ehrlich YearsBy Lisa ReinWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, July 18, 2008; A01Undercover Maryland State Police officers conducted surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents,including some in Takoma Park, for more than a year while Robert L...
Stopping the Execution of Mexican Citizens in the United States
Posted on July 18, 2008Memorandum February 11, 1993 To: All Progressive People in Mexico From: Professor Francis A. Boyle Subject: Stopping the Execution of Mexican Citizens in the United States Dear Friends: I am writing on behalf of all Mexican Citizens and Mexican-American dual nationals who have been sentenced to death and are currently awaiting execution in prisons here in the United States, as well as on behalf of Mexican Citizens and Mexican-American dual nationals who undoubtedly will be sentenced to death in this country...
Bishop Wants Appeals Court To Stop Execution
Posted on July 17, 2008Bishop Wants Appeals Court To Stop ExecutionConvicted Murderer Scheduled For Execution WednesdayPOSTED: 10:20 am CDT July 17, 2008 Mississippi death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop is asking a federal appeals court to block his execution, which is scheduled for Wednesday...
Lawyers: Arkansas' Execution Method 'Dangerous'
Posted on July 17, 2008Lawyers: Arkansas' Execution Method 'Dangerous' Lawyers for four Arkansas death-row inmates are urging a federal judge to allow a challenge to the state's lethal injection method to be heard after the U.S. Supreme Court found a similar method used in Kentucky to be constitutional...
NY Partner Faces Off Against U.S. in World Court in Pro Bono Fight
Posted on July 17, 2008Pro Bono New York City Pro Bono Training CalendarNew York State Pro Bono Opportunities GuideNY Partner Faces Off Against U.S. in World Court in Pro Bono FightNew York LawyerJuly 17, 2008 By Nate RaymondThe American Lawyer Subscribe to The American Lawyer In the race to stop the execution of a Mexican citizen in Texas, a Debevoise & Plimpton lawyer has found himself facing off against the United States in the World Court...
Federal judge upholds Missouri execution procedure
Posted on July 17, 200807/16/2008 A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Missouri's lethal-injection procedure is not cruel or unusual punishment, possibly ending a series of lawsuits that kept the state's death chamber closed for nearly three years. The ruling was issued by U...
World Court seeks to block 5 U.S. executions
Posted on July 17, 2008World Court seeks to block 5 U.S. executions Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 12:21 pm | Lyle Denniston | Acting on a claim by Mexico?s government that the U.S. government has not done enough to assure the treaty rights of Mexican nationals facing execution for murders in the U...
Kevin Young Gets a 30 Day Stay-- PLEASE ACT NOW!
Posted on July 17, 2008Death PenaltyKevin Young Gets a 30 Day Stay-- PLEASE ACT NOW!death-penalty on July 16, 2008 at 11:28 AMOn July 15th, Governor Brad Henry of Oklahoma granted a 30-day stay of execution to Kevin Young, who was originally scheduled to be executed on July 22nd...
Mexico v. United States of America
Posted on July 17, 2008http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=1&code=&case=139&k=11 Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America) (Mexico v...
Federal judge's ruling opens door to renewal of executions in Missouri
Posted on July 16, 2008Federal judge's ruling opens door to renewal of executions in Missouri by The Associated Press http://www.ky3.com/news/local/25508089.html Story Updated: Jul 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM CDT By Gene Hartley KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the state's method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal injection is constitutional...
World Court: US should halt executions of Mexicans
Posted on July 16, 2008World Court: US should halt executions of Mexicans By MIKE CORDER http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600511.html?hpid=moreheadlinesThe Associated PressWednesday, July 16, 2008; 12:47 PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The U...
Request for the indication of provisional measures
Posted on July 16, 2008INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, Netherlands Tel.: +31 (0)70 302 2323 Fax: +31 (0)70 364 9928 Website: www.icj-cij.org Press Release Unofficial Summary 2008/3 16 July 2008 Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v...
the United States of America shall take "all measures necessary" to ensure that five Mexican nationals are not executed pending its final judgment
Posted on July 16, 2008INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, Netherlands Tel.: +31 (0)70 302 2323 Fax: +31 (0)70 364 9928 Website: www.icj-cij.org Press Release Unofficial No. 2008/20 16 July 2008 http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index...
U.N. court orders U.S. to 'take all measures' to stop execution of condemned Mexicans
Posted on July 16, 2008U.N. court orders U.S. to 'take all measures' to stop execution of condemned MexicansJuly 16, 2008An international court ruled today that the U.S. government must takesteps to ensure that five Mexican nationals aren't put to deathpending its decision in a suit that challenges the application of thedeath penalty in murder cases where defendants weren't told they hadthe right to request consular assistance...
In Re: State of Missouri, Respondent, vs. John Middleton, Appellant.
Posted on July 15, 2008Jul,ll, 2008 5:49PM THOMAS F, SIMON CLERK CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT STATE OF MISSOURI POST OFFICE BOX 150 JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI 65102 July 11, 2008 No,m9 p, 2/2 TELEPllONE (573) 751-4144 Mr. John W. Simon Suite 12 2683 South Big Bend Boulevard St...
Court holds back Missouri execution
Posted on July 15, 2008Court holds back Missouri execution By Jeremy Kohler ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 07/15/2008 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/DFBB82CDBEB1B05C86257487001367CA?OpenDocumentThe Missouri Supreme Court has postponed what would have been the state's first execution in nearly three years, to allow further legal challenges to its lethal-injection protocol...
4 death row inmates file suit to stop lethal injections in Miss.
Posted on July 15, 20084 death row inmates file suit to stop lethal injections in Miss. Holbrook Mohr ? The Associated Press ? July 15, 2008 http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080715/NEWS/807150342/1001/news function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window...
Innocence Matters-----March to Save Troy Davis!
Posted on July 15, 2008Innocence Matters-----March to Save Troy Davis!Troy Davis was sent to death row in 1991 for the shooting of a whitepolice officer in Savannah, Georgia, but serious questions about his guilthave surfaced. He came within 23 hours of execution in July, 2007, and anew date is likely to be set soon...
Prosecutor may drop charges in Paul House case
Posted on July 14, 2008Prosecutor may drop charges in Paul House casePosted: July 10, 2008 3:25 pmA Tennessee prosecutor told the Associated Press yesterday that further DNA testing could persuade his office to drop charges against Paul House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee?s death row before he was released on bond last week ? for a murder he has always said he didn?t commit...
Letter to Governor Riley - DNA testing
Posted on July 14, 2008July 14, 2008 The Honorable Governor Bob RileyState Capitol N 10411 S. Union St. # 600Montgomery, AL 36130-2751 Dear Governor Riley, I do not know whether Thomas Arthur is guilty or innocent of the crime of which he was convicted and sent to death row...
Alabama column: Why no DNA testing for Tommy Arthur?
Posted on July 14, 2008Alabama column: Why no DNA testing for Tommy Arthur? Posted: July 11, 2008 4:10 pm http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/Blog.php "It seems a simple thing. Before the state of Alabama executes someone, it should leave no room for doubt about a person's guilt," columnist David Person writes in today?s Huntsville Times...
Why no DNA testing in Alabama?
Posted on July 13, 2008» More From The Huntsville TimesOpinion Columnist David Person http://www.al.com/opinion/huntsvilletimes/dperson.ssf?/base/opinion/121576774178420.xml&coll=1&thispage=1 if (_pdata) { addpdata("ptype", "story"); addpdata("stuid", "121576774178420"); addpdata("sttitle", "Why no DNA testing in Alabama?"); addpdata("stcat", "codperson"); addpdata("stsource", "Huntsville"); addpdata("stdate", "07/11/08"); addpdata("stpnum", "1"); addpdata("stnpgs", "2"); } Why no DNA testing in Alabama? Friday, July 11, 2008 Huntsville Times It seems a simple thing...
Letter to Governor Bob Riley
Posted on July 11, 2008st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Governor Bob RileyState of Alabamavia e-mail attachment Re Thomas Arthur Dear Governor Riley: It has come to my attention that you are considering orderingDNA testingof material related to Arthur?s conviction; I urge you to order it, and if you have no authority to do so, urge a court to order theappropriate testing...
Court to Rule on Mexico Bid to Halt U.S. Executions
Posted on July 11, 2008Court to Rule on Mexico Bid to Halt U.S. Executions That's the title of a Reuters report from Amsterdam. It refers to the International Court of Justice, also know as the World Court. LINK The World Court said on Friday it will rule next week on a Mexican request that it seek a delay of the imminent U...
Still no DNA test for Alabama man; July 31 execution date set
Posted on July 11, 2008Still no DNA test for Alabama man; July 31 execution date setPosted: July 8, 2008 2:48 pmTommy Arthur has been on Alabama?s death row for most of a quarter-century, and he has maintained his innocence the entire time. Now, Alabama officials say they plan to execute him on July 31st, and the possibility looms that he could be executed without a DNA test that could show whether he is guilty or innocent...
11 circuit order denying Mark Schwab 1983 lawsuit
Posted on July 11, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/200813435.pdfFILED U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT June 27, 2008 THOMAS K. KAHN CLERK [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 08-13435 ________________________ D...
The Case Against the Death Penalty
Posted on July 10, 2008The Case Against The Death Penaltyby Hugo Adam Bedau --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ContentsPrefaceIntroductionDeterrenceUnfairnessInevitability of ErrorBarbarityRetributionFinancial CostsPublic OpinionAbolition TrendsFor Further Information & ReferenceNotes--------------------------------------------------------------------------------PrefaceHugo Adam Bedau is Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University...
Motion to stay the execution of Thomas Arthur
Posted on July 08, 2008You can find the motion here :http://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/Arthur%20Motion%20to%20Stay%20Execution%2007-04-08.PDF
Killer seeking delay of execution
Posted on July 08, 2008Killer seeking delay of execution Arthur says `new' step merits challenge Tuesday, July 08, 2008 STAN DIELNews staff writer After convicted killer Thomas D. Arthur is strapped to a gurney at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore later this month, he'll be given 100 cc's of sodium pentothal...
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley should order DNA tests for Tommy Arthur, who is scheduled to be executed July 31
Posted on July 07, 2008Alabama Gov. Bob Riley should order DNA tests for Tommy Arthur, who is scheduled to be executed July 31 Sunday, July 06, 2008 THE ISSUE: Gov. Bob Riley should order DNA tests for Tommy Arthur, who is scheduled to be executed July 31. Death Row inmate Tommy Arthur has been here before...
WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR.
Posted on July 07, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 7, 2008 WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR. Allowing the State of Alabama to execute Thomas Arthur in the full knowledge that strong doubtexists concerning the certainty of his guilt, doubt which could be resolved with DNA testing,amounts to nothing less than murder...
Healing
Posted on July 05, 2008"The death penalty is about revenge and hate, and revenge and hate is why my daughter and those 167 other people are dead today."Bud Welch, father of Julie Marie Welch, victim in the Oklahoma City bombing"I have come to believe that the death penalty is not what will help me heal...
Order dated May 19, 2008 in US District Court Middle District in Mark Schwab
Posted on July 02, 2008The judge`s order in federal filings dated May 19, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/gruberfiling.pdf
Notice of federal appeal dated June16, 2008 - Mark Schwab
Posted on July 02, 2008Notice of federal appeal for Mark Schwab was filed June 16, 2008 by CCRC Middlehttp://www.markschwab.us/legal/noticeoffederalappeal.pdf
USSC docket - Mark Schwab
Posted on July 02, 2008http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08-5020.htmNo. 08-5020 *** CAPITAL CASE *** Title: Mark Dean Schwab, Petitionerv.FloridaDocketed: July 1, 2008Lower Ct: Supreme Court of FloridaCase Nos.: (08-1199)Decision Date: June 27, 2008~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Jun 30 2008 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed...
USSC docket Mark Schwab - application for stay
Posted on July 02, 2008http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08a8.htm No. 08A8 Title: Mark Dean Schwab, Applicant v. Florida Docketed: Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida Case Nos.: (08-1199) ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jun 30 2008 Application (08A8) for stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas...
Hidden order from 11 circuit?
Posted on July 02, 2008Has the order from 11 circuit been hidden and unpublished?I encourage media to look for it today.We cannot wake up Mark today, but we can analyze how this process is working.Media is the important investigator.
Time, Appeals Running Out For Death Row Inmate----Mark Dean Schwab Is Scheduled To Die On Tuesday
Posted on July 01, 2008June 30FLORIDA----impending executionTime, Appeals Running Out For Death Row Inmate----Mark Dean Schwab IsScheduled To Die On TuesdayTime and appeals are running out for Florida death row inmate Mark DeanSchwab who is scheduled to be put to death this week for the rape andmurder of an 11-year old girl...
Mark Schwab 1983 federal appeal to 11 circuit
Posted on July 01, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/replybrieffederal.htmhttp://www.markschwab.us/legal/Schwab-Reply-Brief.pdfny-821133 No. 08-13435-P _____________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT _____________________________ MARK DEAN SCHWAB, Plaintiff - Appellant, v...
Florida's system of capital punishment fails on many fronts
Posted on July 01, 2008Gerald Kogan Florida's system of capital punishment fails on many fronts By Gerald Kogan, Special to the TimesIn print: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article652532.eceIn April, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the method of lethal injection utilized by Florida, among other states, does not violate the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment...
Death penalty future rides on Schwab execution
Posted on July 01, 2008Death penalty future rides on Schwab executionMuch will be at stake when the curtains part on Florida's death chamber atFlorida State Prison this evening. It will be one of the most importantdays in the history of the state's ultimate punishment.Pending an unlikely 11th-hour stay, Mark Dean Schwab will be strapped to agurney to face a 6 p...
Execution success may lead to more
Posted on July 01, 2008Execution success may lead to more BY JOHN A. TORRES ? FLORIDA TODAY ? July 1, 2008 http://www.floridatoday.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS01/807010326/1006 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } If Florida's succeeds in ending the life of child killer Mark Dean Schwab without incident, that likely will result in a return to multiple executions per year...
Exhibit A - filed to Florida Supreme Court in Mark Schwab
Posted on July 01, 2008Click on each picture file to read the text
Florida is killing another child today
Posted on July 01, 2008Child killer Mark Dean Schwab faces execution Tuesday Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer June 29, 2008 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-schwab2908jun29,0,2176755.story In 1992, Mark Dean Schwab was sentenced to death in the 1991 slaying of Junny Rios-Martinez...
Junny's family plans quiet trip to execution site
Posted on July 01, 2008Child-killer's final hours may be ticking away Junny's family plans quiet trip to execution site BY JOHN A. TORRES ? FLORIDA TODAY ? July 1, 2008 http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS01/807010333/1006 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window...
The letter from Governor Crist to warden Bryant, Florida State Prison
Posted on June 30, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/A9108808519.pdf
The death warrant for Mark Schwab
Posted on June 30, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/A979683718.pdf
Exhibit A filed to Florida Supreme Court in Mark Schwab
Posted on June 30, 2008Click on each picture to see the text
Florida set to resume executions
Posted on June 30, 2008Florida set to resume executions By Nathan CrabbeSun staff writer http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080630/NEWS/55764390/1002/NEWS Published: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 6:01 a.m.Last Modified: Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:24 p.m. The Gainesville Sun A gurney sits in the Florida State Prison's new execution chamber this year...
Warden on death penalty: "This is wrong"
Posted on June 29, 2008Warden on death penalty: "This is wrong"By DARA KAMPalm Beach Post Capital BureauSaturday, June 28, 2008TALLAHASSEE ? Murderer Pedro Medina was strapped into "Old Sparky"shortly after midnight on March 25, 1997, at Florida State Prison.Warden Ron McAndrew stood nearby as a guard placed a wet sponge toconduct more than 2,000 volts of electricity onto Medina's shaved head...
Child killer Mark Dean Schwab faces execution Tuesday
Posted on June 29, 2008Child killer Mark Dean Schwab faces execution Tuesday Sarah Lundy |Sentinel Staff Writer June 29, 2008 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-schwab2908jun29,0,3460938.story Child killer Mark Dean Schwab -- who kidnapped, raped and murdered 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez of Cocoa -- is set to die Tuesday by lethal injection...
Exhibit A - Filing to Florida Supreme Court in Mark Schwab
Posted on June 29, 2008Click on the picture file to see the text
Florida prepares for 1st execution since foul up
Posted on June 29, 2008Florida prepares for 1st execution since foul up By RON WORD ? 39 minutes ago http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipkPe4h1Nkcs5or6Az7CpU_FzRmQD91JP7400 STARKE, Fla. (AP) ? Florida's new procedure for lethal injections could be tested Tuesday when executioners strap down a condemned inmate for the first time since a botched execution...
Court denies Schwab's appeal
Posted on June 28, 2008Court denies Schwab's appeal BY BILL COTTERELL ? FLORIDA TODAY ? June 27, 2008 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } TALLAHASSEE -- Mark Dean Schwab's legal alternatives are diminishing ahead of his Tuesday execution...
Florida Supreme Court denies Mark Schwab - USA today ....
Posted on June 28, 200806/27/2008 DISP-AFFIRMED We affirm the circuit court's order denying relief. No motion for rehearing will be entertained by the Court. The mandate shall issue immediately.
Florida Bishops: No to Death Penalty
Posted on June 28, 2008Florida Bishops: No to Death Penalty 6/27/2008 http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=28396 Zenit News Agency (www.zenit.org) "Killing someone because they killed only perpetuates violence and coarsens the public?s attitude about the sanctity of life" TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Zenit) - Nine bishops of Florida sent a letter to Governor Charlie Crist urging him to stop executions in Florida, beginning with the scheduled execution of Mark Dean Schwab next week...
Florida Supreme Court order on motion to strike - Mark Schwab
Posted on June 28, 200806/27/2008 ORDER-STRIKE DY Appellee's Motion to Strike Exhibit is hereby denied. __._,_.___ p://jweb.flcourts.org/pls/docket/ds_docket?p_caseyear=2008&p_casenumber=1199
Florida Supreme Court order of briefing schedule in Mark Scwab
Posted on June 27, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-25-2008_Briefing_Schedule.txt http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-25-2008_Briefing_Schedule.pdf ~uprtmt ((ourt of jflortba WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008 CASE NO.: SC08-1199 Lower Tribunal No(s).: 05-1991-CF-7249 AXXX MARK DEAN SCHWAB vs...
Notice of appeal - Mark Schwab
Posted on June 27, 2008Signature: Peter J. Cannon Peter J. Cannon IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-25-2008_Notice_Appeal.txt http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-25-2008_Notice_Appeal...
Obama's Draconian New Death Penalty Stance
Posted on June 27, 2008http://www.alternet.org/rights/89573 Obama's Draconian New Death Penalty Stance By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted June 27, 2008. In a reactionary political calculation, Barack Obama comes out in support of the death penalty for child rape. What a difference a general election makes...
Attorney General tells Florida Supreme Court executions need not be painless
Posted on June 27, 2008Attorney General tells Florida Supreme Court executions need not be painless By Bill Cotterell ? Florida Capital Bureau Political Editor ? June 27, 2008 http://www.news-press.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/NEWS01/80627021/1002 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window...
The State`s answerbrief in Mark Schwab
Posted on June 27, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/stateanswerbriefschwab.htm http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-27-2008_Answer_Brief.pdf IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. SC08-1199 MARK DEAN SCHWAB, Appellant, v. Death Warrant Signed Execution Scheduled for July 1, 2008 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee...
MOTION TO STRIKE EXHIBIT - Mark Schwab
Posted on June 27, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/motiontostrike.htm http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-27-2008_Motion_Strike.pdf IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA MARK DEAN SCHWAB Appellant, Case No. SC08-1199 **DEATH WARRANT** STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee...
The exhibits filed in Schwab
Posted on June 27, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-26-2008_Initial_Brief_Appendix_A.pdf The exhibits filed in Schwab
Bishops to Gov. Crist, ?set a new standard of respect for life?
Posted on June 27, 2008RELATED: Death penalty foe presses on Bishops to Gov. Crist, ?set a new standard of respect for life? DENISE O?TOOLE KELLY | FLORIDA CATHOLIC STAFF http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/rop/2008_rop/2008_roparticles/20080626_rop_schwab_execution.php Published: 06...
INITIAL BRIEF OF APPELLANT - Mark Schwab
Posted on June 27, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/inibriefexecution.htm http://www.markschwab.us/legal/Filed_06-26-2008_Initial_Brief.pdf IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 08-1199 MARK DEAN SCHWAB, Appellant, Death Warrant Signed Execution July 1, 2008 STATE OF FLORIDA Appellee...
Virginia Botches 100th Execution
Posted on June 27, 2008Virginia Botches 100th ExecutionVirginia Abolitionists Ring the Toll Bell 100 Times in Protest By Dee Takeaways Virginia executes 100 th inmate Virginia correctional officers botched the execution It took 17 minuets to insert the IV A Virginia inmate, Robert Stacy Yarbrough was executed by the state of Virginia last night bringing the number of executions to 100...
Florida Bishops Urge Rethinking of Death Penalty
Posted on June 27, 2008ZE08062603 - 2008-06-26 Permalink: http://www.zenit.org/article-23026?l=english Florida Bishops Urge Rethinking of Death Penaltyhttp://www.zenit.org/article-23026?l=english Ask Governor to Halt Execution of Child Murderer TALLAHASSEE, Florida, JUNE 26, 2008 (Zenit...
Judge: Chance of pain definite during Schwab execution
Posted on June 26, 2008Judge: Chance of pain definite during Schwab execution BY JOHN A. TORRES FLORIDA TODAY Titusville Judge Charles Holcomb on Wednesday cleared the way for the execution next week of child rapist and murderer Mark Dean Schwab, who argued that a lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment...
MARK DEAN SCHWAB - SUCCESSIVE MOTION TO VACATE SENTENCE OR STAY EXECUTION
Posted on June 21, 2008IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, INAND FOR BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO. 91-7249-CF-ASTATE OF FLORIDA, CAPITAL CASEEXECUTION SCHEDULEDPlaintiff, JULY 1, 20086:00 P.M.v.MARK DEAN SCHWAB,Defendant______________________/SUCCESSIVE MOTION TO VACATE SENTENCE OR STAY EXECUTIONMark Dean Schwab, by undersigned counsel, files this motion to vacate hissentence of death pursuant to Fla...
Schwab's Attorneys File For Stay Of Execution
Posted on June 21, 2008Lawyers Said Injection Would Cause 'Substantial Risk Of Serious Harm'TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- The man who would be first to die when Florida resumes prisoner executions has filed new court motions to try to avoid his date with death.Mark Dean Schwab?s execution is set for July 1...
Child killer challenges execution
Posted on June 21, 2008Attorney: State method could cause painBY JOHN A. TORRES ? FLORIDA TODAY ? June 21, 2008Arguing that the state's revised execution protocol is not good enough and still may cause an inmate pain, attorneys for convicted child killer Mark Dean Schwab petitioned the court Friday to vacate his death sentence...
Burge orders change in lethal injection protocol
Posted on June 10, 200806/10/2008BREAKING NEWS: Burge orders change in lethal injection protocolELYRIA - Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge ordered thismorning that Ohio change the lethal injection protocol used toexecute condemned prisoners.The ruling comes after two days of testimony from anesthesiologistsand written arguments submitted in the case...
Condemned Man's Lawyers Claim 'Racism'
Posted on June 02, 2008Posted: 8:42 AM May 31, 2008Reporter: Associated PressEmail Address: News@wctv.tvATLANTA (AP) A condemned man who blames racism by a defense attorney for sending him to death row is asking a parole board to commute his sentence.Jack Osborne's lawyers argued to the board today that his defense attorney, Johnny Mostiler, presented a flimsy defense because he was "infected by racism...
The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penalty
Posted on May 30, 2008The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penalty----After being heldprisoner by the US for 6 years, inmate to be charged with terrorismoffences despite protesting his innocenceA British resident who is facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay hasmade a final desperate plea to Gordon Brown to end his 6-year ordeal andbring him home today...
Stop Missouri's Renegade Anesthesiologist From Executing Someone!
Posted on May 26, 2008Support the Campaign "Stop Capital Punishment Now!" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 26, 2008 Stop Missouri's Renegade Anesthesiologist From Executing Someone! The State of Missouri has obtained a Board Certified anesthesiologist to implement its next execution of a human being, in gross violation of his most fundamental human rights under international law...
Missouri hires doctor for executions
Posted on May 26, 2008Missouri hires doctor for executionsThe state of Missouri has added an anesthesiologist to its execution team,despite professional guidelines against doctors taking part in executions.The Kansas City Star reported Sunday the doctor's presence on the team wasrevealed in a federal court case brought by several death row inmatesconcerning the qualifications and training of Missouri's execution teammembers...
Sister?s change began with pen pal
Posted on May 26, 2008Sister?s change began with pen pal BY DUSTIN TRACY Northwest Arkansas Times http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/65601/ Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 Email this story | Printer-friendly version One of the biggest changes in Sister Helen Prejean's life came in the form of a letter from an unlikely pen pal...
Anesthesiologist Joins Missouri's Execution Team
Posted on May 24, 2008Anesthesiologist Joins Missouri's Execution Team Posted on: Friday, 23 May 2008, 18:00 CDT http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1400451/anesthesiologist_joins_missouris_execution_team/ KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Despite the medical profession's ethical guidelines against it, an anesthesiologist has joined the team that will carry out executions in Missouri...
At the death house door
Posted on May 18, 2008through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous "Walls" prison unit in Huntsville. During Pickett's remarkable career journey, he presided over 95 executions, including the world?s first lethal injection...
UPDATE: Hamdan trial delayed
Posted on May 18, 2008UPDATE: Hamdan trial delayed Friday, May 16th, 2008 12:21 pm | Lyle Denniston | Print This Post Update 7:15 a.m. Saturday On Friday afternoon, the military judge heading the commission scheduled to try Salim Ahmed Hamdan postponed the date for starting that trial until July 21...
State rejected execution safeguard
Posted on May 12, 2008State rejected execution safeguard Before a prolonged execution last year, the Florida Department of Corrections decided against using a machine to ensure an inmate is fully unconscious before lethal chemicals are injected.An Aug. 15, 2006 memo from department attorney Sara Dyehouse recommended the use of a bispectral index monitor in executions...
Between life and death
Posted on May 12, 2008http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN90051208.htm OPINION: EditorialMay 12, 2008 Between life and death Too many accused of murder lack adequate counsel With the U.S. Supreme Court's approval of lethal injection as a means of capital punishment, many states see a green light to go ahead with executions...
Henrettelse stoppet etter EU-press
Posted on May 12, 2008Henrettelse stoppet etter EU-press Av Idun Brekke 07.05.2008 kl. 09:08 Kilde: VG NETT (VG Nett) Behnood Shoajee som etter planen skulle henrettets i Iran i dag, ble reddet i siste liten etter press fra EU. UTSETTES:Behnoods henrettelse er utsatt i en måned...
Death Row: Big number, no meaning
Posted on May 12, 2008exonerees Death Row: Big number, no meaning By Randy Schultz Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor Sunday, May 11, 2008 Florida's Death Row is a fraud. As of last week, 385 people were under sentence of death - 237 white men, 134 black men, 13 men of other races or ethnicities and one white woman...
Commentary: War crimes trials and outside pressure
Posted on May 12, 2008From the SCOTUS blog :Commentary: War crimes trials and outside pressure Sunday, May 11th, 2008 1:01 pm | Lyle Denniston | Commentary The Nation?s first war crimes trial in the post-9/11 era is still set to begin in 17 days ? unless the D...
Spinning Baze for lower courts
Posted on May 12, 2008From the BLOG Sentencing Law and Policy : Spinning Baze for lower courts Elisabeth Semel has this new piece in The National Law Journal, headlined "Fearing too much justice," which tries its darnedest to argue that Baze should be viewed by lower courts and state officials not as a green light for resuming lethal injection executions, but rather as a yellow light calling for additional caution and inquiry concerning modern execution realities: Chief Justice John G...
Nathan Crabbe on CBS - Angel Diaz execution
Posted on May 12, 2008You can see the video here :http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3510366nand you can see the Watchdog Blog here :http://watchdog.gainesville.com/?q=angel+diaz&Submit=GoHow can Florida start the executions again after this ....
Stevens alters stance on lethal-injection methods
Posted on May 11, 2008Stevens alters stance on lethal-injection methods http://www.orlandosentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/orl-stevens1108may11,0,4444089.story The Associated Press May 11, 2008 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death-row prisoners do...
Posted on Sat, May. 10, 2008
Posted on May 10, 2008Posted on Sat, May. 10, 2008Tenn. Supreme Court Justice derides lethal injectionThe Associated PressCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death row prisoners do...
In Memory of WILLIAM CODAY - Florida death row suicide April 2008
Posted on May 02, 2008In Memory of WILLIAM CODAY A friend who died before his time. ~THEN I DIED~ Freedom taken Life forsaken Steel bars Painful scars Mental strains Concrete walls No one hears your calls Nothing?s fair Hard to bear Mind games Nicknames Count bells Stair wells Masked strangers Constant dangers Jingling keys Trembling knees Lonely hours Faith sours Years wasted Hope tasted Questions Why Then I died?...
Lethal injections resuming in Florida
Posted on April 27, 2008Lethal injections resuming in Florida Megan McArdle, over at Asymmetrical Information blog at the Atlantic, has a fantastic new piece on Florida?s governor and his quest to restart lethal injection: I heard something that sounded very odd on the radio yesterday: news that Florida?s governor had expressed his ?gratitude? that lethal injection was once again legal, and his intention of getting a death warrant out there as quickly as possible...
Florida still risks botched executions
Posted on April 27, 2008A Times Editorial Florida still risks botched executions http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article473702.ece Published Friday, April 25, 2008 7:17 PM Florida is about to rev up its death chamber again. The U.S. Supreme Court has given the go-ahead to states like Florida to continue using a three-drug cocktail for lethal injections, and the state's attorney general and governor have wasted no time in calling for the resumption of executions...
Rulings on death penalty
Posted on April 19, 2008Reasons to abolish I am disheartened that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to tackle the method used in executions. (Please see "COUNTY GEARS UP FOR EXECUTIONS / High court: Backs Kentucky's lethal injection," Page One, Thursday.) This three-drug protocol was developed by an Oklahoma pharmacist in the 1970s, and it stands even when the veterinarian association abandoned it for a more humane method using only an overdose of anesthetic...
Deborah Denno on the Baze Ruling
Posted on April 19, 2008Deborah Denno on the Baze Ruling Fordham Law prof Deborah Denno, the leading scholar examining lethal injection issues, has this reaction to the Baze ruling: Baze v. Rees is a splintered plurality decision in which the Supreme Court puts forth an Eighth Amendment standard that an execution method must constitute a "substantial" or "objectively intolerable" risk of serious harm before it can be rendered a violation of the Eighth Amendment...
SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI - Earl Berry
Posted on April 19, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/EarlBerry/berry-supp-brief-4-17-08.pdfNo. 07-7348 IN THESUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES EARL WESLEY BERRY, Petitioner V, CHRISTOPHER EPPS, Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections,LAWRENCE KELLY, Superintendent ofthe Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman,and JOHN DOES 1-50, Respondents ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARITO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF IN SUPPORT OFPETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI Petitioner, Earl Wesley Berry, filed his Petition for Writ of Certiorari on October 29,2007...
MOTION TO VACATE STAY OF EXECUTION - Florida
Posted on April 19, 2008http://www.markschwab.us/legal/schwab-application.pdf CASE NO. 07-10275CAPITAL CASE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES MARK DEAN SCHWABPetitioner,v.FLORIDA,Respondent. MOTION TO VACATE STAY OF EXECUTION COMES NOW the State of Florida, and moves this Court to vacatethe stay of execution entered in this case on November 15, 2007...
Justice Stevens Renounces Capital Punishment
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A Supreme Court ruling shouldn't end the debate on the methods or morals of lethal injection.
Posted on April 19, 2008A Less Cruel Punishment A Supreme Court ruling shouldn't end the debate on the methods or morals of lethal injection.THE SUPREME Court has spoken: The current method of injection to execute inmates does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. But this declaration, delivered in a splintered, 97-page opinion Wednesday, should not end the public debate about capital punishment -- nor about whether states, as long as executions continue, should consider alternatives that may be more humane and reliable and less likely to impose unnecessary pain...
States plan to resume executions
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In a reversal, Justice Stevens calls the death penalty 'anachronistic'
Posted on April 19, 2008In a reversal, Justice Stevens calls the death penalty 'anachronistic' Part of the Supreme Court majority that reinstated capital punishment in the U.S. in 1976, he says it no longer serves any purpose. By James Oliphant, Chicago TribuneApril 17, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The nation's longest-serving Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens, on Wednesday declared his formal opposition to capital punishment...
The Supreme Court Brings Back the Death Penalty
Posted on April 19, 2008The Supreme Court Brings Back the Death Penalty By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted April 17, 2008. With a 7-2 ruling ending a moratorium on state-sanctioned killing, states across the country are gearing up to resume executions. GA_googleFillSlot("alt_rights_btf_right_300x250"); sr_adspace_id = 1900707; sr_adspace_width = 300; sr_adspace_height = 250; sr_adspace_type = "graphic"; sr_color_back = "#FFFFFF"; sr_color_text = "#000000"; sr_color_url = "#E15F00"; sr_color_title = "#3F66B3"; sr_color_border = "#3366CC"; sr_color_your_ad = "#2852A3"; sr_color_your_adbk = "#FFDD81"; sr_ad_new_window = true; rnum=Math...
JUSTICE STEVENS, concurring in the judgment.
Posted on April 16, 2008Cite as: 553 U. S. ____ (2008) STEVENS, J., concurring in judgment SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 07?5439 RALPH BAZE AND THOMAS C. BOWLING, PETI-TIONERS v. JOHN D. REES, COMMISSIONER,KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OFCORRECTIONS, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURTOF KENTUCKY http://www...
JUSTICE BREYER, concurring in the judgment.
Posted on April 16, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/Bazeopinion.htmCite as: 553 U. S. ____ (2008) 1 BREYER, J., concurring in judgment SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 07?5439 RALPH BAZE AND THOMAS C. BOWLING, PETI-TIONERS v. JOHN D. REES, COMMISSIONER,KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OFCORRECTIONS, ET AL...
Ginsburg and Souter dissent
Posted on April 16, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/Bazeopinion.htm GINSBURG, J., dissenting SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 07?5439 RALPH BAZE AND THOMAS C. BOWLING, PETI-TIONERS v. JOHN D. REES, COMMISSIONER,KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OFCORRECTIONS, ET AL...
Today?s Opinions
Posted on April 16, 2008Today?s Opinions http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/todays-opinions-31/ Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 10:13 am | Ben Winograd | Comments Off Today?s opinion by Justice Breyer in Begay v. United States (06-11543) is now available here. Justice Scalia filed an opinion concurring in the judgment...
Lethal injection allowed
Posted on April 16, 2008Lethal injection allowed http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/lethal-injection-allowed/ Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 10:13 am | Lyle Denniston | Comments Off | In a widely splintered decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for death-row executions to resume across the country, concluding that the most common method of lethal injection does not violate the Constitution...
With his license on the line, Mississippi doctor responds
Posted on April 13, 2008With his license on the line, Mississippi doctor responds http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/Blog.php Posted: April 9, 2008 3:25 pmAfter the Innocence Project filed a formal complaint yesterday to revoke Steven Hayne?s Mississippi medical license due to his autopsy misconduct, the doctor broke his long silence to the media and tried to defend his record...
"People Who are Well Represented at Trial do not Get the Death Penalty."
Posted on April 12, 2008Two pieces addressing racial and economic inequality, legal representationand the death penalty:*Printed in Counterpunch: Opening remarks in the Senate's subcommittee onthe Constitution Hearing on "The Adequacy of Representation in CapitalCases"*New Hampshire Public Radio: Two Very Different Death Penalty Defendants"(To listen to the piece, go to http://www...
Put an end to Mississippi autopsy misconduct
Posted on April 12, 2008Put an end to Mississippi autopsy misconduct Posted: April 8, 2008 3:50 pmThe Innocence Project and the Mississippi Innocence Project today formally asked officials to revoke the medical license of Dr. Steven Hayne, whose fraud and misconduct has led to an unknown number of wrongful convictions...
Two Very Different Death Penalty Defendants
Posted on April 11, 2008http://www.nhpr.org/node/15776Two Very Different Death Penalty DefendantsBy Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, April 10, 2008.The two defendants in New Hampshire facing the death penalty couldn¹t bemore different.There¹s John Brooks, a white millionaire who¹s charged with plotting andhiring men to kill an associate...
Medellín Case Has Huge Implications Abroad
Posted on April 11, 2008Medellín Case Has Huge Implications AbroadApril 9, 2008; Page A13 Your March 26 editorial "International Law, and Domestic Order," correctly recognizes that the importance of the recent Supreme Court decision in Medellín v. Texas is not related to the death penalty, but instead on the relationship between U...
Kentucky Lethal Injection Procedure Released
Posted on April 11, 2008Kentucky Lethal Injection Procedure Released The redacted procedure, in Adobe .pdf format is here. The state's justification for secrecy is here. The Louisville Courier-Journal reports, "Kentucky releases rules for executions."Kentucky's once secret protocol for executing inmates by lethal injection describes in chilling detail what to do if an execution goes bad, and even spells out measures to revive the condemned if there is a last-minute stay...
Suspend death penalty, decriminalize misdemeanors
Posted on April 11, 2008Suspend death penalty, decriminalize misdemeanors 2 SUGGESTIONS FOR FLORIDA COURTS TO REDUCE COSTS http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/letters/orl-myword11b08apr11,0,5383492.story Robert Wesley April 11, 2008 News of the past few weeks includes reports of budget cuts for hospitals, nursing homes and schools...
Kentucky DOC justification for secrecy
Posted on April 11, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/DOC_justification_for_keeping_protocol_portion_under_seal.source.prod_affiliate.79.pdf
Kentucky releases rules for executions----Supreme Court orders Kentucky to release policy
Posted on April 11, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/Baze_v__Rees_JA_Vol__IV_redacted_version_filed_with_SCOTUS.source.prod_affiliate.79.pdfKentucky releases rules for executions----Supreme Court orders Kentucky torelease policyKentucky's once secret protocol for executing inmates by lethal injectiondescribes in chilling detail what to do if an execution goes bad, and evenspells out measures to revive the condemned if there is a last-minutestay...
Doctor says prisoners die worse than dogs
Posted on April 08, 2008AP via Google NewsCleveland Plain DealerLorain Chronicle-Telegram- - - - -http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUdzDJsVKYD8hDRPuIJ48w4d2qEQD8VTKRB02Tuesday, April 08, 2008Hearing Continues Over Lethal InjectionBy JOE MILICIA - 4 hours agoELYRIA, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's lethal injection method was assailed asunfit foreven household pets byan anesthesiologist testifying in a case challenging theconstitutionality ofthe procedure...
Ohio?s Use of Lethal Injection is Unconstitutional, Says ACLU
Posted on April 08, 200804.03.08 Ohio?s Use of Lethal Injection is Unconstitutional, Says ACLU Media Advisory For immediate release CLEVELAND- The ACLU of Ohio is challenging Ohio?s administration of lethal injection as illegal and unconstitutional in the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas...
Serial killer sues state on execution method
Posted on April 08, 2008Serial killer sues state on execution method Tuesday, April 08, 2008 STAN DIELNews staff writer Alabama's new execution procedure, which critics have blasted as a thinly veiled attempt to get around a federal moratorium on the death penalty, still amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a Death Row inmate argues in a lawsuit against the state...
Doctor: Ohio's Lethal Injection Inhumane
Posted on April 08, 2008Doctor: Ohio's Lethal Injection InhumaneApr 7, 6:50 PM (ET)By JOE MILICIA http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080407/D8VTABNG0.htmlELYRIA, Ohio (AP) - An anesthesiologist testified Monday that Ohio's lethal injection procedure isn't appropriate for dogs or cats, let alone humans...
Judge orders death row inmate Paul House released
Posted on April 08, 2008Judge orders death row inmate Paul House releasedFreedom scheduled after hearing May 28BY CHRIS ECHEGARAY ? STAFF WRITER ? APRIL 8, 2008The decades-long court saga of convicted rapist and killer Paul Housetook a dramatic turn Monday when a federal judge ordered thecondemned man's release from prison...
Race plays key role in death-row cases, says speaker
Posted on April 08, 2008ALABAMA:Race plays key role in death-row cases, says speakerMore often than not, race of the victim and the defendant determineswhich criminals land on death row in Alabama, death penalty opponent BryanStevenson told an audience at Auburn Montgomery on Sunday...
Number of Innocents on Death Row Mandate Moratorium
Posted on April 08, 2008John Holdridge http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-holdridge/number-of-innocents-on-de_b_95524.htmlNumber of Innocents on Death Row Mandate Moratorium Posted April 7, 2008 | 06:57 PM (EST) Support for the death penalty in the U.S. is at its lowest point in many years...
Head Strong: Evidence the Pa. death penalty is punishment existing in name
Posted on April 06, 2008PENNSYLVANIA:Head Strong: Evidence the Pa. death penalty is punishment existing in nameonlyMaureen Faulkner called me in a panic.She'd just retrieved a voice mail from Philadelphia Assistant DistrictAttorney Hugh Burns, alerting her to a federal appellate decisionconcerning the man who a jury said murdered her husband...
Death penalty no joke to judge
Posted on April 06, 2008Death penalty no joke to judgeBrad Dicken | The Chronicle-Telegram ELYRIA ? Darth Vader won?t be making an appearance next week when county Common Pleas Judge James Burge holds hearings on the constitutionality of the state?s lethal injection process...
A successor to Greenhouse
Posted on April 06, 2008A successor to Greenhouse Friday, April 4th, 2008 3:47 pm | Lyle Denniston The New York Times indicated on Friday that its new Supreme Court reporter will be Adam Liptak, succeeding Linda Greenhouse, who is headed for an academic appointment at Yale Law School...
Burge says he can offer fair hearing in death case
Posted on April 06, 2008Burge says he can offer fair hearing in death case By MATT SUMAN, Morning Journal Writer04/04/2008 ELYRIA - Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said despite his efforts to save the life of the last inmate executed in Ohio, he can conduct a fair hearing for two death penalty defendants challenging Ohio's method of lethal injection...
With injustice of AEDPA, presidential candidates must discuss death penalty
Posted on March 28, 2008With injustice of AEDPA, presidential candidates must discuss death penalty http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24072 To the Editor: The AEDPA law mentioned in Ben Jones? column ?Still, candidates avoid death-penalty debate? (3/26) is affecting my father, Alabama death row inmate, Thomas Arthur Z-427...
Ruling: Bush can't order hearing for condemned Mexican
Posted on March 26, 2008SUPREME COURT | DEATH PENALTY CASE Ruling: Bush can't order hearing for condemned Mexican The Supreme Court sided with Texas against President Bush in denying an appeal for a Mexican national who is on Death Row in Texas. Posted on Wed, Mar. 26, 2008 h1:first')...
Still, candidates avoid death-penalty debate
Posted on March 26, 2008Still, candidates avoid death-penalty debateGuest ColumnistPublished Wednesday, March 26, 2008As contenders for the presidency tailor their campaigns to addresspredominately middle-class concerns ? health care, the economy, Iraq? they are giving short shrift to other issues that, though pressing,fail to capture the attention of their primary demographic...
Nebraska retains the death penalty
Posted on March 26, 2008Nebraska retains the death penalty By ANNA JO BRATTONAssociated Press Writer function PopupPic(sPicURL, sHeight, sWidth) { window.open( "http://media.kansascity.com/static/popup.html?"+sPicURL, "", "resizable=1,HEIGHT=" +sHeight+ ",WIDTH=" +sWidth); } Nebraska Legislature Nebraska lawmakers rejected an attempt to repeal the death penalty on Tuesday, a month after courts left the state with no way to execute its killers...
Death penalty debate coming back to the Capitol
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Vigil against capital punishment is today
Posted on March 24, 2008Vigil against capital punishment is today staff reports ? Argus Leader ? March 21, 2008The 11th annual Good Friday vigil against the death penalty is set for noon to 1 p.m. today at the state penitentiary.The event, hosted by the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center, will be near the flagpole at the entrance to the Jamison Annex, just north of the main prison...
No urgency this time on executions
Posted on March 24, 2008No urgency this time on executions By: Leslie Reed, Midlands News Service 03/24/2008 Updated 03/24/2008 11:31:41 AM EDT LINCOLN -- The Nebraska Supreme Court last month decided to pull the plug on the electric chair. This week, the Legislature will consider whether to close the execution chamber for good...
Activist walks to abolish death penalty
Posted on March 24, 2008Activist walks to abolish death penalty katia-r Updated: 2008-03-21 23:10:59-06 Andre Latallade, hip-hop artist and prison rights activist, also known as Capital-X, will walk from New Jersey to Texas to advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment in the US...
Are legislators up to the test?
Posted on March 24, 2008Are legislators up to the test? Monday, March 24, 2008 THE ISSUE: Alabama is one of only a handful of states without a law to help wrongly convicted people get access to DNA testing. Our Legislature should change that. People convicted of crimes before DNA science had been developed ought to have access to testing now if it could prove their innocence...
HOW LETHAL INJECTION REFORM CONSTITUTES IMPERMISSIBLE RESEARCH ON PRISONERS
Posted on March 24, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/impermissibleresearch.htmhttp://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/2008.shaw.pdfHOW LETHAL INJECTION REFORM CONSTITUTES IMPERMISSIBLE RESEARCH ON PRISONERS Seema Shah** This essay exposes how recent attempts at lethal injection reform have involved unethical and illegal research on prisoners...
Baze v. Rees
Posted on March 23, 2008Baze v. Rees http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/LethalInjection/Public/briefs.html Supreme Court Briefs Party Briefs Brief for Petitioners Brief for Respondents Reply Brief for Petitioners Amicus Briefs Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Petitioners Brief for Michael Morales, Michael Taylor, et al...
House approves controversial death penalty bill
Posted on March 22, 2008House approves controversial death penalty bill 10 jurors could decide capital punishment By BEN SMITH, BILL RANKINThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/19/08 Imposing the death penalty in Georgia would take only 10 of 12 jurors under an amended bill approved by the state House Wednesday...
The Book Of Clarence Thomas
Posted on March 22, 2008The Book Of Clarence Thomas Andrew Cohen: Court's Only Black Justice Won't Oppose Legal Racism In Death Penalty Case http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/21/opinion/courtwatch/main3958407.shtml(CBS) Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and CBSNews...
Vijaya Rajiva,Book Review,'Breaking All the Rules'
Posted on March 22, 2008Friends & Colleagues, Vijaya Rajiva,Book Review,'Breaking All the Rules' Palestine Chronicle,March 20,2008. Francis Boyle international lawyer extraordinaire & political activist who teaches at the University of Illinois,U.S.A., is known to us all and needs no special introduction...
Land Behind Bars
Posted on March 21, 2008Land Behind Bars The Hidden Casualities of America's "War on Crime" By MARLENE MARTIN The number of people behind bars in the "land of the free" is grown as large as the combined populations of Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Pittsburgh...
Former death row inmate pleads guilty to 1985 crime
Posted on March 21, 2008Former death row inmate pleads guilty to 1985 crime Thursday, March 20, 2008 DALLAS (AP) ? A man who was on death row for nearly 20 years until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his verdict because of racial discrimination in his trial has pleaded guilty to the 1985 slaying for which he was originally sentenced to die...
Letter to Obama from Sherrie Stone
Posted on March 21, 2008Dear Barak,I am a republican, but have been very impressed with you.I would like to know why the Presidential Candidates are not speaking up about the death penalty. The United States Supreme Court will be making a historic ruling in a month or so, executions are on hold and we have a very flawed system...
How to Build an Execution Chamber
Posted on March 18, 2008How to Build an Execution Chamber By Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, March 18, 2008. listen: The New Hampshire Department of Corrections has a lot of work to do. The federal government is requiring New Hampshire to execute convicted murder Gary Sampson...
Georgia Supreme Court to Troy Davis: Innocence doesn't matter
Posted on March 17, 2008Decision in Davis v. State is here.http://www.gasupreme.us/pdf/s07a1758.pdf In a sharp 4-3 decision the Georgia Supreme Court denies relief. The evidence of innocence comes too late. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying Davis?s extraordinary motion for new trial without first conducting a trial...
Demand Clemency for Troy Davis
Posted on March 17, 2008Troy Davis, a man who may well be innocent, faces execution. Call on the Georgia Board of Pardon and Paroles to commute the death sentence for Troy Davis!Today's stunning decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to let the death sentence stand in the Troy Anthony Davis case means that the state of Georgia might execute a man who well may be innocent...
The Torture of Sami Al Arian
Posted on March 17, 2008The Torture of Sami Al Arian Date Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 http://www.masnet.org/views.asp?id=4941 PITTSBURG (JURIST) March 11, 2008 - Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa - now on hunger strike and in danger of irreversible renal failure at a federal prison hospital - is abuse of power amounting to torture taking place in the United States itself under the aegis of the Bush Administration and its "war on terror"...
Ailing death row inmate gets appeal hearing Thursday
Posted on February 28, 2008Ailing death row inmate gets appeal hearing ThursdayPosted: 8:33 AM Feb 28, 2008Last Updated: 8:35 AM Feb 28, 2008 0 comments http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/16069512.html A | A | A NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A hearing for ailing death row inmate Paul House will be held Thursday in federal court...
Faulty bullet-test cases finding way to court
Posted on February 26, 20082008 National Law Journal OnlinePage printed from: http://www.nlj.comBack to Article CRIMINAL LAW Faulty bullet-test cases finding way to courtVesna Jaksic / Staff reporterFebruary 25, 2008Martin Mcclain, a defense lawyer in Florida, says his client is on death row in large part due to unreliable science...
The ruling in 2nd DCA - Michael Mordenti
Posted on February 23, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Florida/MichaelMordenti/2ndDCAopinion.htmhttp://www.floridasupport.us/Florida/MichaelMordenti/2D05-4407.pdf NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT MICHAEL MORDENTI, ) ) Appellant, ) ) v...
2nd conviction overturned - Michael Mordenti
Posted on February 23, 20082nd conviction overturned An appeals court finds statements were improperly excluded. http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/23/Hillsborough/2nd_conviction_overtu.shtml By Colleen Jenkins, Times Staff WriterPublished February 23, 2008TAMPA - Before he committed suicide, Larry Royston told his attorney that prosecutors had charged the wrong man with killing Royston's wife in a 1989 murder-for-hire plot...
SUMMARY OF THE MICHAEL MORDENTI CASE
Posted on February 23, 2008SUMMARY OF THE MICHAEL MORDENTI CASE On June 7, 1989, at around 9:00 p.m., Thelma Royston was murdered in a horse barn located on the property she owned with husband Larry Royston. At the time of murder, Mr. Royston was inside the family residence with Thelma?s mother...
Michael Mordenti - Florida
Posted on February 23, 2008The 2nd DCA granted Michael Mordenti a new trialThis is an innocence case
Abandoned bulgarian children
Posted on February 19, 2008This film will break your hearthttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9176914173325307126&hl=en-GBInformation from Mogilino can be found here :http://www.truevisiontv.com/abandoned.htmSign petition here :http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Children-Dying/#detailSissel
DNA speaks
Posted on February 10, 2008Frank Lee SmithDNA speaks The state Crime Lab needs to share the truth in old evidence February 10, 2008 If new DNA evidence turns up that could shed light on the innocence ? or guilt, of course ? of an individual convicted of a crime, that person should be told...
SXSW Accepts Film on Texas Death Row Case of Innocent Man Executed: Carlos DeLuna
Posted on February 09, 2008Friday, February 08, 2008 SXSW Accepts Film on Texas Death Row Case of Innocent Man Executed: Carlos DeLuna At the Death House Door, a film on the case of Carlos DeLuna, who was an innocent person executed by Texas, will have its world premiere at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival...
Pathologist testified in U.S. death penalty case, inquiry hears
Posted on February 08, 2008Pathologist testified in U.S. death penalty case, inquiry hears Tom Blackwell, National Post Published: Friday, February 08, 2008 More On This Story Pathologist accused of untruth again Disgraced pathologist apologizes to victim Story Tools -+ Change font size Print this story function print_click() { u=location...
History of capital punishment in Nebraska
Posted on February 08, 2008Published Friday | February 8, 2008History of capital punishment in NebraskaTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS History of executions All executions in Nebraska since 1903 have taken place within the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln. Before 1903, executions were handled in the county where the offense took place...
ARCHAIC DEATH MACHINERY ABOLISHED
Posted on February 08, 2008ARCHAIC DEATH MACHINERY ABOLISHED ---- For immediate releaseACLU Nebraska and Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty heralded theNebraska Supreme Court's opinion issued today in State v. Mata, holdingthe electric chair is cruel and unusual and may not be used any longer...
Campus series poses national insight to capital punishment
Posted on February 08, 2008Campus series poses national insight to capital punishment Thursday, 07 February 2008 var sburl8804 = window.location.href; var sbtitle8804 = document...
An already cruel punishment made crueler
Posted on February 08, 2008Home : Opinion : An already cruel punishment made crueler Feb 08,2008 An already cruel punishment made crueler by Marc H. Moria Clarence Edward Hill, an African-America death row inmate convicted of murdering a police officer in Pensacola, Fla...
Cruel and unnecessary
Posted on February 08, 2008Cruel and unnecessary Monday, February 04, 2008 THE ISSUE: Two families suffered this past week because state prosecutors were so eager to proceed with an execution. The U.S. Supreme Court, not surprisingly, stopped it. The normal path to a killer's execution is terribly hard on two families - the killer's family, and the family of his victims...
North Carolina needs to rethink the death penalty
Posted on February 08, 2008North Carolina needs to rethink the death penalty Feb 6, 2008 Opinion Jump to Comments Stephen Dear & Diann Rust-Tierney Recently, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, crime victims? advocates and both Republican and Democratic state legislators in New Jersey worked together to pass legislation to repeal that state?s death penalty...
Death Penalty Repeal Bill Considered
Posted on February 03, 2008Saturday, February 02, 2008By: Anna Jo Bratton Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. - An Oklahoma man who spent 19 years on death row came to Nebraska Friday to ask state lawmakers to make sure innocent people aren't executed before evidence can exonerate them...
Physicians and executions
Posted on February 02, 2008From the blog Capital Defense Weekly : Physicians and executions The New England Journal of Medicine has posted a roundtable on doctors and lethal injection. From the intro: On January 14, 2008, the Journal hosted a videotaped roundtable discussion of the issues raised by Baze v...
Callahan Execution Stayed
Posted on February 02, 2008Callahan Execution Stayed http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/callahan-execuion-stayed/Thursday, January 31st, 2008 6:22 pm | Jason Harrow | The Supreme Court has just issued an order staying the execution in the case of James Callahan, which we wrote about earlier here...
Perspective Roundtable: Physicians and Execution
Posted on February 02, 2008http://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/roundtable.htmhttp://www.floridasupport.us/Baze/roundtableTranscript.pdfPage 1 of 12 Perspective Roundtable: Physicians and Execution 1. Introduction DR. ATUL GAWANDE: Welcome to a Perspective Roundtable from the New England Journal of Medicine...
Discussion on LI - physician participation ONLINE NOW
Posted on February 02, 2008Discussion on LI - physician participation ONLINE NOWGo here :http://www.nejm.org/Perspective-Roundtable/Lethal-Injection/video.htmlhttp://www.nejm.org/Perspective-Roundtable/Lethal-Injection/
Legislation in Alabama
Posted on January 31, 2008From Standdown blog :Legislation in Alabama AL.com carries the AP dispatch, "Alabama senator to try death penalty moratorium for 8th time." The legislator is Senator Hank Sanders.The Selma Democrat announced Tuesday that when the Legislature convenes Feb...
New test on lethal injection
Posted on January 31, 2008From SCOTUS blog :New test on lethal injection http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/new-test-on-lethal-injection/Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 3:55 pm | Lyle Denniston | Comments (0) | Print This Post Email this ? Share on Facebook ? Digg This! Email this ? Share on Facebook ? Digg This! Three weeks after the Supreme Court held a hearing on constitutional issues surrounding the lethal injection method of execution for murder, the Justices are expected to be asked later Wednesday whether to keep intact an informal but functional bar to such executions until a ruling is issued in the test case...
The stay application to USSC in Callahan
Posted on January 31, 2008CAPITAL CASEEXECUTION DATEIN THESUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATESJAMES CALLAHAN,Petitioner,RICHARD ALLEN, et al.,Respondents.CAPITAL CASEEXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 31,2008 AT 6PM CSTAPPLICATION FOR STAY OF EXECUTIONVincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr.Counsel of Record for James CallahanHeather K...
USSC docket for the stay application in Callahan
Posted on January 31, 2008No. 07A630 Title: James Callahan, Applicant http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/07a630.htm v. Richard F. Allen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Docketed: Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Case Nos...
The 11 circuit order lifts stay for Callahan in Alabama
Posted on January 30, 2008FILED U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Jan. 29, 2008 THOMAS K. KAHN CLERK [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 08-10100 ________________________ D. C. Docket Nos.06-00695-CV-N & 06-00919-CV-N WILLIE MCNAIR, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant, JAMES CALLAHAN, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant- Appellee, versus RICHARD ALLEN, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, individually and in his official capacity, GRANTT CULLIVER, Warden, Holman Correctional Facility, in his individual and official capacity, Defendants-Counter-Claimants- Appellants...
The stay order on Callahan, Alabama December 14,2007
Posted on January 30, 2008IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION WILLIE MCNAIR, ) ) Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2:06-cv-695-WKW ) RICHARD ALLEN, et al., )) Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs. ) ___________________________________ ) JAMES CALLAHAN, )) Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant, ) ) v...
Stay of Execution Lifted, Callahan Scheduled to Die Thursday
Posted on January 30, 2008Stay of Execution Lifted, Callahan Scheduled to Die Thursday http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=7796908MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A federal appeals court has lifted a stay of execution for James Harvey Callahan, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday, but it could be delayed again by the U...
The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science
Posted on January 25, 2008The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science The Fordham Urban Law Review is sponsoring the above-titled symposium March 7 and 8 at Fordham Law School in New York City. LINKThe symposium will address a broad range of issues concerning lethal injection...
Give Them Death: 3 Leading Democratic Candidates Support Capital
Posted on January 25, 2008Jan. 25USA:Give Them Death: 3 Leading Democratic Candidates Support CapitalPunishmentOpposing the death penalty used to distinguish Democrats from Republicans.Now, across party lines, death is just another day at the office.When Clinton, Obama and Edwards took the stage before a mostlyAfrican-American crowd in Myrtle Beach, S...
Physicians and Execution
Posted on January 25, 2008Physicians and ExecutionBy Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.Jan 25, 2008, 10:54http://axisoflogic.com:80/artman/publish/article_25922.shtml Volume 358:403-404 January 24, 2008 Number 4Physicians and Execution Gregory D...
Flashback: Bill Clinton?s 1992 execution gambit
Posted on January 25, 2008Flashback: Bill Clinton?s 1992 execution gambit On this date in 1992 Ricky Ray Rector was executed. Rector was severely mentally handicapped due to an attempted suicide that left him effectively lobotomized. When Rector?s execution day approached, he was given the standard last meal...
Death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab denied hearing
Posted on January 24, 2008The Florida Supreme Court this morning ruled in favor of a lower court's decision.Sarah LundySentinel Staff Writer1:59 PM EST, January 24, 2008The Florida Supreme Court this morning ruled in favor of a lower court's decision to deny death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab an evidentiary hearing to present what his attorneys called new evidence...
More on the Nebraska Abolition Bill
Posted on January 23, 2008More on the Nebraska Abolition Bill The Omaha World-Herald has, "Death penalty repeal returns."State Sen. Ernie Chambers is hoping to take Nebraska's death penalty with him when he leaves the Legislature next January. Chambers, who has spent more than three decades trying to pull the plug on the state's electric chair, tried again Tuesday ? introducing a bill to repeal capital punishment and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole...
In Nebraska
Posted on January 23, 2008In Nebraska The Beatrice Daily Sun reports, "Death penalty bill signals Chambers' last chance at repeal." Ernie Chambers has introduced his bill to repeal the death penalty, a battle he's promised to make the priority of his last session as a state senator...
And in Connecticut
Posted on January 23, 2008And in Connecticut The Stamford Advocate has, "Lawmaker tries to abolish death penalty," reported by Brian Lockhart.The General Assembly's lengthy debate on criminal justice reforms was expected to be stretched a little longer last night by one lawmaker's crusade to abolish the death penalty...
Bredesen: 1-drug injection is no quick fix, would delay executions
Posted on January 23, 2008Bredesen: 1-drug injection is no quick fix, would delay executions Years of litigation would be result, governor estimates By GREG GIUFFRIDA ? Associated Press ? January 21, 2008 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } Gov...
Colin gets serious
Posted on January 21, 2008Colin gets serious We may have last seen him running around with a tarted-up Rupert Everett in St Trinian's, but Colin Firth is getting serious for his latest project - a documentary about American prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for 25 years for murder...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted on January 21, 2008"For through violence, you may murder a murderer, but you can't murdermurder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establishtruth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murderhate. Darkness cannot put out darkness, only light can do that...
Lawyers targeting Missouri executioners
Posted on January 20, 2008Lawyers targeting Missouri executioners Posted : Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:37:17 GMT Author : General News Editor Category : US (World) News Alerts by Email click here ) Create your own RSS US World News | Home ST...
Kenny Richey is proof that the death penalty doesn't need to be carried out to destroy a life
Posted on January 20, 2008Kenny Richey is proof that the death penalty doesn't need to be carried out to destroy a lifehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2242905,00.htmlThe Scot has considered suicide more often in the past week than during his time in jailAlexander ChancellorFriday January 18, 2008The Guardian Kenny Richey, the 43-year-old Scotsman who returned home 10 days ago after 21 years on death row in the US, says he has never been more miserable than since he was let out...
PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty
Posted on January 20, 2008PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty 19 January 2008 - Issue : 765 Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Rene Van der Linden in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2008ANA/EPA/ALEXANDER NATRUSKIN/POOL PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty President of the Parliamentary Assembly Rene van der Linde visited Moscow...
Lake hospital's letters deal crucial blow to credibility of execution doctor
Posted on January 20, 2008Lake hospital's letters deal crucial blow to credibility of execution doctor By Jeremy Kohler/St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.lakeexpo.com/articles/2008/01/20/top_news/02.txt Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:13 AM CST Missouri officials fought to keep the moment from happening...
Less money, more pain and injustice
Posted on January 20, 2008Less money, more pain and injustice By JAMES ABBOTTSpecial to the Star-Telegram Last month, New Jersey's legislature and governor replaced the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole...
Author of 'Dead Man Walking' to share 'good Southern storytelling' about her experiences
Posted on January 20, 2008Stirring up death penalty talk in Eureka Author of 'Dead Man Walking' to share 'good Southern storytelling' about her experiences Sunday, January 20, 2008 By DAVE HANEY OF THE JOURNAL STAR EUREKA - A Louisiana man convicted and sentenced to death for raping and murdering an 18-year-old girl and murdering her 16-year-old boyfriend in 1977...
Romney, Clintons, and the Death Penalty
Posted on January 20, 2008Romney, Clintons, and the Death PenaltyRomney and I were in the same section as 1Ls at Harvard Law School. Backin those dayshe went by Will. Back in those days he was a lot like his Father, whichwas not that bad. With his JD/MBA he went to work for Boston ConsultingGroup--where the Big Bucks are...
Family members want more contact with inmates
Posted on January 20, 2008Protest on death rowFamily members want more contact with inmatesBy Christopher Bobby, The Warren Tribune ChronicleJanuary 20, 2008http://tinyurl.com/2ztg7bYOUNGSTOWN ? Family members of Ohio death row inmates ? wanting morepersonal contact with their loved ones inside the prison walls ?turned over a pile of letters penned by the convicted killers toprison officials at the Ohio State Penitentiary on Saturday...
YOUR VIEW: Let's kill capital punishment
Posted on January 19, 2008YOUR VIEW: Let's kill capital punishmentBy RAIMUNDO DELGADO Mr. Delgado lives in New Bedford. January 16, 2008 6:00 AM Americans should be terribly troubled that the U.S. Supreme Court is divided about whether a lethal injection used in 36 states causes excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution to those condemned to die by lethal injection...
Juvenile justice chief to lead state Corrections Department
Posted on January 19, 2008Juvenile justice chief to lead state Corrections Department Gov. Charlie Crist chose the state's juvenile justice chief, Walt McNeil, as the new state Corrections Department leader. Posted on Wed, Jan. 16, 2008 BY MARC CAPUTO mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com function PopupPic(sPicURLx, sHeight, sWidth) { var sPicURL = "/news/florida/v-morephotos/story/380948...
Inmates seek IDs of executioners
Posted on January 19, 2008http://newsletters.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/385C50066211914D862573D5001C77A6?OpenDocument Inmates seek IDs of executioners By Jeremy Kohler ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 01/20/2008 Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressingMissouri to provide the names of members ofits execution team after a Post-Dispatchinvestigation revealed that one was a convictedstalker...
The Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society at Susquehanna University will present a symposium
Posted on January 18, 2008On March 26 and 27, 2008, the Arlin M. Adams Center for Law andSociety at Susquehanna University will present a symposium examiningissues relating to the death penalty. The Adams Center examinesissues impacting human rights and social responsibility and we striveto create awareness of these issues through programs like the 2008death penalty symposium...
Death row inmate's mother in painful waiting game
Posted on January 18, 2008Death row inmate's mother in painful waiting game By DWIGHT LEWIS ? January 10, 2008 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } Sixty-six-year-old Joyce House is in a waiting game, and it's no fun...
Barbara Kay on capital punishment: Death by firing squad is the way to go
Posted on January 14, 2008Barbara Kay on capital punishment: Death by firing squad is the way to go Posted: January 13, 2008, 4:21 PM by Yoni Goldstein Barbara Kay As one of the lonely few in Canada - in the whole Western world nowadays outside of the U...
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