Criminal Law

11 circuit order in Thomas Arthur

Posted on July 24, 2008
http://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...

11 circuit order in Thomas Arthur

Posted on July 24, 2008
Can be found here :http://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/arthur11th.pdf

Appeals panel won't stop Arthur execution

Posted on July 24, 2008
Breaking 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, 2008
24 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...

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Lawsuit challenges Missouri?s lethal injection

Posted on July 24, 2008
Lawsuit 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, 2008
Event 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, 2008
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...

VIRGINIA: Killer scheduled to die today

Posted on July 24, 2008
VIRGINIA: 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, 2008
Thomas 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, 2008
Oppose 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, 2008
V A Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty PO Box 4804 �?� Charlottesville, VA 22905 (434) 960-7779 �?�� (888) 567-VADP �?�Fax (434) 984-2803 office@VADP.org �?� � www.vadp.org D P HELP STOP VIRGINIA�??S 102nd EXECUTION �?? 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, 2008
Honorable 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, 2008
07/23/2008 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, 2008
2:40 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, 2008
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Thomas Arthur`s motion for access to DNA evidence before July 31, 2008

Posted on July 23, 2008
http://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, 2008
http://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, 2008
Bishop 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, 2008
Posted 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, 2008
Governor 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, 2008
EDITORIALS 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, 2008
http://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, 2008
July 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, 2008
The letter can be found herehttp://justicedenied.org/gov_riley_letter.pdf

Urgent action Jose Medellin

Posted on July 21, 2008
http://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, 2008
http://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, 2008
Miss. 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, 2008
Judge: ?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, 2008
Activist 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, 2008
Governor 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...

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