December 2012
Death Penalty Information Center Report 2012: Florida Has Most Death Sentences This Year
The Death Penalty Information Center has compiled its annual report on capital punishment in the United States.
According to the DPIC, the four states of (Florida (21), California (14), Texas (9), and Pennsylvania (7)) accounted for 65% of the country’s death sentences. Texas, however, led the nation once again in the number of executions, with fifteen…
Florida Killings May Be Solved Through This Week’s Exhumation of In Cold Blood’s Percy Smith and Richard Hickock for DNA Testing of Skeletal Remains
Most folk interested in the death penalty, whether they are for or against capital punishment, have read the non-fiction novel by Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, or seen the film based upon that book which starred Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as the two men executed by the State of Kansas for the killings…
Move in Iowa to Reinstate Death Penalty After Iowa Repealed Capital Punishment in 1965
Iowa hasn’t had a death penalty in over 50 years but public outrage over the deaths of two girls has spurred a new effort to re-institute capital punishment in Iowa.
The governor is fine with it, but it’s a state senator named Kent Sorenson that is spearheading the effort to get a capital…
Judges and Prosecutors in Death Penalty Cases: When Are Their Private Communications During a Capital Trial Considered Inappropriate?
In Texas not too long ago, Charles Dean Hood lost his appeal for a new trial to the highest state court even though he had evidence that his defense counsel was unaware that at the time of Hood’s criminal trial the judge presiding over that case, Judge Verna Sue Holland, was having an affair with…