Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
The Florida House of Representatives will be addressing the issue of capital punishment, as the memories of Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis and Florida’s execution of Manuel Valle are still fresh in the minds of legislators and the public at large.
State Representative Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda (D-Tallahassee) has introduced HB 4051, which will now proceed…
The United State Supreme Court has just stayed the execution of Duane Edward Buck, and an excellent article providing the details of Mr. Buck’s case – from crime to stay – can be found at The Texas Tribune, in a piece written by Brandi Grissom entitled "Supreme Court Grants Stay of Duane Buck Execution."…
Worth your time to read, this law review article just published by the Virginia Law Review in a continuing discussion of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as it relates to "cruel and unusual" punishment and the death penalty — was the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause originally meant to prohibit excessive punishments as…
Back in February 2010, we pondered the case of the West Memphis Three in a post entitled, "Johnny Depp on 48 Hours Today Fighting 4 West Memphis 3, Will He Help the Dubose Brothers?"
Eighteen months later, and the West Memphis Three are free men. It’s a big deal and a big story in…