Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to consider the case coming out of Texas, where Death Row inmates petitioned SCOTUS to review their claims that Texas’ use of pentobarbital in lethal injection executions is cruel and unusual punishment.
Seems Texas has a stash of pentobarbital that it got from a…
There are times when you are tested, when circumstances reveal your integrity or the lack thereof.
That came last week for noted Death Penalty Defense Attorney Terence Lenamon, as his son Jude Lenamon was among the students attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on the Valentine’s Day Shooting.
Death Penalty Defense When Your …
Defending those facing the death penalty brings Terry Lenamon into the heart of the issue of mental illness in this country and how that does (as opposed to should) impact the imposing of capital punishment on those convicted of serious crimes.
Mental Illness is an Issue in All Death Penalty Cases
We discuss aspects of…
The American Bar Association has adopted a formal resolution regarding the Death Penalty as well as publishing its report in support of the resolution.
You can read the full report here.
The 2018 ABA Resolution on Death Penalty
Here is the full text of the resolution here, drafted by the ABA’s Civil Rights and…