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Ohio Carries Out Fourth Execution of 2010

Posted on April 20, 2010
"Ohio rapist who alleged drug allergy executed," is the title of an AP report written by Matt Leingang. A serial rapist who strangled a 16-year-old girl in 1988 and who had argued he might be violently allergic to the state's...

Proportionality Review in Georgia

Posted on April 20, 2010
"Proposal said to make Georgia death statute vulnerable to attack," is the title of Bill Rankin's report in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Legislation moving through the General Assembly that would strip a key safeguard from Georgia?s death-penalty law could make the...

News Coverage of the Charles Dean Hood Case

Posted on April 20, 2010
"Supreme Court Denies Review in Texas Case Involving Judge's Affair With DA," is Tony Mauro's report for the National Law Journal. Without comment, the Supreme Court on Monday denied review in the case of Texas death row inmate Charles Dean...

Sessions & White on the Hood Case

Posted on April 20, 2010
Former Federal Judge and FBI Director William Sessions and former Governor Mark White both urged the Supreme Court to review the Charles Dean Hood. They reacted to the Court's refusal to examine the case through a news release from the...

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A View of Death Row

Posted on April 19, 2010
"For US death row inmates, a long wait for execution," is the title of Lucile Malandain's report for AFP, via Google News. They wait alone, in cells of just a few square meters, often for 15 or 20 years, sometimes...

Supreme Court Rejects Review of Charles Dean Hood Case

Posted on April 19, 2010
"Supreme Court rejects appeal in case where killer's judge and Collin DA had sexual relationship," is the title of Diane Jennings post at the Dallas Morning News. The U.S. Supreme Court will not weigh in on whether a romantic relationship...

State Legislative Roundup

Posted on April 19, 2010
The State Column posts, "Death Penalty Legislation Under Review in a Number of States." Both Connecticut and Georgia are proposing changes to laws governing the death penalty reflecting a growing trend in state politics. In Georgia, the Senate Judiciary Committee...

Innocence Lost

Posted on April 19, 2010
That's the title of Dave Mann's report in the current issue of the Texas Observer about David Dow's The Autobiography of an Execution. The article is subtitled, "In his new memoir, attorney David Dow offers a glimpse inside Texas? death...

Ohio Lethal Injection Challenge Dismissed - UPDATED

Posted on April 16, 2010
UPDATE - "State: No sign of Ohio inmate's anesthesia allergy," is the latest AP report via Huffington Post. It's written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. The state says a review of a condemned Ohio inmate's medical records finds no evidence of an...

Goodwin Liu Confirmation Hearing Live Now

Posted on April 16, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit is live and being webcast. Earlier coverage of the nomination is here.

David Oshinsky's Book on Capital Punishment Now Available

Posted on April 15, 2010
The Pulitzer prize-winning UT scholar's latest book is Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America, and it's available for purchase. "Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Releases Book on Capital Punishment," is the title of...

Post-Conviction DNA Testing an Issue in Kentucky

Posted on April 15, 2010
AP reports, "Ky. high court weighing challenge to DNA law," via the Lexington Herald-Banner. It's written by Brett Barrouquere. Thomas Clyde Bowling admits his car was used in the shooting deaths of a husband and wife in Lexington nearly two...

More on Ohio's Next Scheduled Lethal Injection

Posted on April 15, 2010
"Anesthesia allergy could complicate Ohio execution," is the title of an AP report by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, via Google News. A condemned Ohio inmate who says he's allergic to anesthesia is undertaking what appears to be a unique legal maneuver, arguing...

At UT Law Today

Posted on April 15, 2010
"Celebrating Judge William Wayne Justice's Life and Legacy," is the theme of two events sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at the University of Texas School of Law. This afternoon a panel discussion, "The Arc...

The Wider Impact of Hank Skinner?s Case

Posted on April 14, 2010
That's the title of Dave Mann's post at the Texas Observer. LINK It's a must-read. When the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of Hank Skinner in late March, much of the media coverage focused on the particulars of Skinner?s...

Colorado Supreme Court Rules on Appeal Time Limits

Posted on April 13, 2010
"Colo. Supreme Court: No Two-Year Limit In Death Penalty Appeals," is the title of the Law Week Colorad report written by Matt Masich.Colorado law does not impose a strict two-year limit on death penalty appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled...

From Arizona

Posted on April 13, 2010
Dan Peitzmeyer writes the OpEd, "Perpetuating the death penalty just isn't cost-effective," for today's Arizona Republic. He's vice president of the Arizona Death Penalty Forum. In tight economic times, efforts must be taken to save money. Every cost study in...

Ohio Exoneree Speaks Out on the Kevin Keith Case

Posted on April 13, 2010
Today's Columbus Dispatch carries, "State must prevent wrongful convictions." I's written by Dale Johnston, who was exonerated and freed in 1990 after spending five years on Ohio's death row. I commend The Dispatch for its support of the new criminal-justice-reform...

Lethal Injection Roundup

Posted on April 13, 2010
There is news from Ohio and Arkansas this morning. The Dayton Daily News carries an AP report, "Condemned Ohio inmate allergic to anesthesia."A man scheduled to die next week for raping and strangling a 16-year-old girl wants to know what...

Robert Perkinson provides news

Posted on April 12, 2010
Robert Perkinson provides news analysis in the post, "Texas Justice, American Injustice," at Truthout. Here's the beginning of this post. When members of Texas' Board of Education recently voted to eliminate "justice" from the list of terms schoolchildren have to...

Bob Barr on the Goodwin Liu 9th Circuit Nomination

Posted on April 12, 2010
On his Barr Code blog at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bob Barr posts, "Nominee?s death penalty views being distorted." Now well into its second year, the administration of President Barack Obama is encountering increasing flak in its already lagging efforts to...

New Hampshire Commission Hears Deterrence Testimony

Posted on April 12, 2010
"On death penalty, researchers differ with the police," is the title of Annmarie Timmins' report in the Saturday edition of the Concord Monitor. There may be reasons for New Hampshire to keep the death penalty, but statistics show deterrence shouldn't...

Arkansas Lethal Injection Litigation - Eighth Circuit Panel Lifts Stays

Posted on April 12, 2010
"Court lifts Johnson?s stay of execution," is the title of the AP report via the Texarkana Gazette. A federal appeals court on Friday lifted stays of execution for two Arkansas inmates, one of them scheduled to be put to death...

Forensic Science Commission to Meet April 23

Posted on April 12, 2010
Dave Montgomery reports, "Texas Forensic Science Commission to reopen discussion of Willingham case this month," for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It's a must-read; here are several excerpts: After months of delay and internal upheaval, the revamped Texas Forensic Science Commission...

Harris DA Seeks to Remove Judge From Capital Punishment Hearing

Posted on April 12, 2010
"DA claims Texas judge has death penalty bias," is the title of the AP report by Juan Lozano, via the Dallas Morning News. A Texas judge who declared during a capital murder case that the death penalty is unconstitutional but...

Justice Stevens Announces Retirement

Posted on April 09, 2010
"Justice Stevens to Retire After 34 Years," and "The End of an Era, for Court and Nation," are in the New York Times. The Washington Post has, "Justice John Paul Stevens to retire from court this summer," and "Obama administration...

Friday

Posted on April 09, 2010
I'll be attending the Capital Punishment Center's Symposium. Posting on Friday will be limited. Take the opportunity to visit blogs and blawgs in the left-column webroll.

Reminder - Friday & Saturday - UT Law Symposium

Posted on April 09, 2010
Friday, April 9 and Saturday, April 10 the William Wayne Justice Center and the Capital Punishment Center will host a symposium at the law school, "The American Death Penalty in the 21st Century: The Direction of Legislative Change and the...

More News From Georgia - The Weis Case

Posted on April 08, 2010
Bill Rankin reports, "Court asked to reconsider death penalty option," for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Georgia Supreme Court refused to strike the death penalty in the case in a narrow, 4-3 ruling, last month. A recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling...

News of Betsey Wright

Posted on April 08, 2010
The Arkansas News Bureau reports, "Wright pleads no contest, draws probation in prison contraband case," by Ray King. A former chief of staff for ex-Gov. Bill Clinton pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors today in a deal with prosecutors to...

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