Criminal Law

House approves controversial death penalty bill

Posted on March 22, 2008
House 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Friends & 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, 2008
Land 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...

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Former death row inmate pleads guilty to 1985 crime

Posted on March 21, 2008
Former 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, 2008
Dear 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, 2008
How 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, 2008
Decision 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, 2008
Troy 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Ailing 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, 2008
2008 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, 2008
http://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, 2008
2nd 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, 2008
SUMMARY 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, 2008
The 2nd DCA granted Michael Mordenti a new trialThis is an innocence case

Abandoned bulgarian children

Posted on February 19, 2008
This 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, 2008
Frank 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, 2008
Friday, 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, 2008
Pathologist 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, 2008
Published 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, 2008
ARCHAIC 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, 2008
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An already cruel punishment made crueler

Posted on February 08, 2008
Home : 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, 2008
Cruel 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, 2008
North 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, 2008
Saturday, 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, 2008
From 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, 2008
Callahan 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, 2008
http://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...

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