Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
There’s a new blog to check out for those who are interested in the death penalty, published by Athina Ouranidou. It’s entitled "Artists vs. Death Penalty."
Athina is in her final year as a law student at Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom. She’s opposed to the death penalty, and has started…
Florida has exonerated more Death Row Inmates than any other state in the nation – 23 inmates, to date – and that’s something we all need to be taking very, very seriously.
Which is exactly what has been happening over in Tallahassee, where a panel made up of respected academics, experts on death penalty legalities…
DNA testing for Death Row inmates gets a lot of attention over in Texas, but it’s really a national issue — and lots of eyes are turned to Austin this week as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the November 8, 2011, execution of Hank Skinner. Skinner’s fight is far from over: the opinion states…
Over in Ohio, Reginald Brooks and his ace defense team are fighting against an execution date of November 15, 2011, when Brooks is scheduled for capital punishment in the homicides of his three sons, killed long ago while they slept (in 1982).
A federal district judge has failed to find error in the changes…