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Oklahoma's Lethal Injection Process Not Fit for Animals

Posted on December 06, 2010
That's the title of Ty Alper's OpEd from the Oklahoman. He's associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. There's been lots of talk recently about Oklahoma's desire to switch to a...

Editorial Commentary on the Harris County Hearing

Posted on December 06, 2010
"Forget the messenger, focus on the flaws in criminal justice system," is the title of today's Austin American-Statesman editorial. We won't argue the merits of Green's capital murder case. But Green raises legitimate issues in his pretrial motion challenging the...

Harris County Hearing Convenes

Posted on December 06, 2010
There are news articles and editorials, today. Let's begin with news coverage; editorials in the next post. "Hearing on death penalty starts in Houston court," is the latest AP report. It's unsigned and via Google News. Experts on eyewitness identification,...

Innocence Found

Posted on December 03, 2010
That's the title of Pamela Colloff's latest Texas Monthly article ---- tracing Anthony Graves' exoneration. Her October 2010 Texas Monthly profile, "Innocence Lost," brought national exposure to the case at a critical time. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of...

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Reforms Needed to End Injustices

Posted on December 03, 2010
That's the title of an editorial in today's San Antonio Express-News. A strand of hair was the single piece of evidence linking Claude Jones with a 1989 murder that took place in Point Blank, north of Houston. By the forensic...

Harris County Hearing Set for Monday

Posted on December 03, 2010
"Stage is set for review of death penalty," is the title of Brian Roger's report in today's Houston Chronicle. The state of Texas does not adequately safeguard against executing the innocent, national anti-death experts and defense lawyers are expected to...

Romell Broom - Botched Execution Survivor

Posted on December 02, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled on Broom's challenge to his botched execution attempt. The AP report is, "Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row," by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. It's via the Washington Post. The only inmate in modern history...

Debate Over Capital Punishment

Posted on December 02, 2010
That's the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News. The latest commentary on Justice John Paul Stevens' essay. "On the Death Sentence," Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and author David Garland have both dived into the...

Previews of the Harris County Hearing

Posted on December 02, 2010
Brandi Grissom writes, "Judge to Rule on Death Penalty Constitutionality," for today's Texas Tribune. For those following the hearing's history, it's a must-read. Texas' messy death penalty saga continues Monday in a Houston courtroom, where a district judge will for...

Wednesday

Posted on November 24, 2010
I'll be traveling much of Wednesday.

Tuesday

Posted on November 23, 2010
I'll be traveling much of Tuesday.

Cruel, Unusual and Bizarre

Posted on November 22, 2010
That's the title of St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Kevin Horrigan's latest. The subtitle is, "How will Missouri "lethally inject" if it runs out of a lethal drug?" To understand the bizarre argument that a condemned man named Roderick Nunley is...

California Official Vows to Release Execution Drug Source

Posted on November 22, 2010
Southern Californai Public Radio reports,"Corrections chief promises to divulge how California secured lethal injection drug." It's by Julie Small of KPCC-FM. California?s top prison official said Friday he?ll soon release information on the state?s supply of a lethal injection drug...

Tennessee Lethal Injection Challenge Upheld

Posted on November 22, 2010
The first of two AP reports is, "Judge paves way for delay in execution of inmate," via the Tennessean. It's written by Kristin M. Hall. A Davidson County judge ruled today that the state?s lethal injection method is unconstitutional, paving...

Oklahoma Drug Switch Approved

Posted on November 22, 2010
"Judge allows new lethal injection drug for Oklahoma executions" is the Oklahoman report by Michael Baker. It's from the Saturday paper. A federal judge ruled Friday that Oklahoma can use a drug regularly given in physician-assisted suicide and animal euthanasia...

More Lethal Injection Information From Texas

Posted on November 22, 2010
The Texas Attorney General's Open Records Letter Decision, OR2010-17507, is in Adobe .pdf format. "Texas has lethal drugs on hand to execute 39 condemned criminals," is the title of Mike Ward's report in the Saturday edition of the Austin American-Statesman...

Ohio Revises Execution Protocol

Posted on November 19, 2010
Today's Columbus Dispatch contains Alan Johnson's report, "New rule will let warden halt condemned's last words." The last words of condemned killers in Ohio could be shortened, edited or stopped under a new prison rule that has critics voicing First...

New California Litigation Over Lethal Injection Drug Source

Posted on November 19, 2010
California Watch reports, "ACLU sues state over lethal injection drug," by Ryan Gabrielson. The filing, ACLU of Northern California v. CDCR, is in Adobe .pdf format. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week seeking to force the...

Tennessee Lethal Injection Hearing Continues Today

Posted on November 19, 2010
Today's Tennessean reports, "Tennessee's lethal injection challenged." It's written by Erin Quinn. Ten days before West's Nov. 9 scheduled execution in a Nashville prison, the Tennessee Supreme Court delayed the convicted Union County murderer's death...

Oklahoma Lethal Injection Hearing Today

Posted on November 19, 2010
"Okla. Considers Using Vet Drug To Execute Inmate," is the title of Kathy Lohr's report from NPR Morning Edition. Oklahoma is moving forward with plans to execute a prisoner despite a shortage of a drug used in lethal injections that...

Arizona Lethal Injection Complaint Lodged With FDA

Posted on November 19, 2010
"Lawyer files complaint over British execution drug," is the AFP report via Google News. A lawyer representing a death row inmate executed with an anesthetic imported from Britain is urging US officials to launch an investigation on the use of...

Texas Attorney General Rules on Open Records Request

Posted on November 19, 2010
Mike Ward has posted, "AG: Make public info about execution drugs," at the Austin American-Statesman. In a new decision, Attorney General Greg Abbott has ordered Texas prison officials to make public previously secret details about the drugs they use in...

Australia Satisfied No Capital Prosecution of Watson

Posted on November 18, 2010
The AP reports, "Australia to deport US man wanted in wife's death," via Google News. Australian officials said Thursday they would deport an American convicted in the death of his wife on a scuba-diving honeymoon after U.S. officials pledged not...

Federal Roundup

Posted on November 18, 2010
"Democrats Plan Votes on Controversial Nominees," Senator Says," is David Ingram's post at Legal Times' BLT. President Barack Obama's nominees for the federal judiciary have stalled for months in part because of heated disagreement over a handful of nominees...

Witness to Innocence

Posted on November 18, 2010
That's the name of the Philadelphia-based organization composed of death row exonerees that works to assist exonerees after winning their freedom. It's also the title of a post at Huffington Post by Chicago attorney Andrea Lyon, who spoke at the...

Lethal Injection Hearing in Tennessee

Posted on November 18, 2010
"Lethal injection on trial in Nashville today," is the brief AP item via the Tennessean. A Nashville judge will hear arguments from attorneys for a death row inmate challenging the state's lethal injection procedure. Stephen Michael West was scheduled for...

An Update From Indiana

Posted on November 18, 2010
Today's Fort Wayne News-Sentinel carries the unsigned AP report, "Lawmakers: Abolition of death penalty is unlikely." Indiana state lawmakers say the General Assembly is more likely to try to find ways to help counties pay for death penalty cases than...

Nagging Doubts About the Death Penalty

Posted on November 18, 2010
That's the title of an editorial in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer. For the second time in two months, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has overridden his Parole Board, halting an execution and changing the prisoner's death sentence to life behind bars....

Roderick Newton Case - Additional Coverage

Posted on November 18, 2010
Jennifer Emily writes, "Man's death penalty set aside in '99 kidnap-slaying in Dallas," for today's Dallas Morning News. Texas' highest criminal court on Wednesday tossed out the conviction of a man sent to death row for kidnapping and killing a...

CCA Rules LWoP Suitable for Juveniles

Posted on November 18, 2010
"Life without parole OK for juveniles, Texas court rules; Sentence is not too harsh for teens convicted of murder, judges say, is the title of Chuck Lindell's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. Sentencing juvenile murderers to life in prison without...

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