Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
Right now, the Florida House of Representatives has before it a bill that would end lethal injections as a method of execution. This bill doesn’t end the death penalty, though (that’s a different bill): this proposed legislation, if it becomes law, will return Florida to its prior methods of carrying out capital punishment.
That’s right. Old …
On Texas Death Row, Henry Watkins "Hank" Skinner is fighting to have DNA testing done of evidence that he argues will support his claims of innocence in the beating death of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two grown-up sons back in 1993.
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion that Skinner could proceed…
Terry Lenamon fought long and hard to get QEEG Brain Mapping introduced as evidence in the death penalty trial of Grady Nelson last fall. The QEEG evidence was introduced. The judge sentenced Grady Nelson not to a sentence of death, but instead to life imprisonment.
That was almost a year ago, and now QEEG evidence…
Cory Maples sits on Death Row over in Alabama, after having obvious and serious errors made by both his trial and appellate counsel which included some pretty big names in the legal industry.
And by "obvious and serious," we really mean blatant, ludicrous, and shameful treatment of an indigent defendant by, among others, one of…