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Florida’s Execution Schedule has tomorrow, February 15, 2012, as the day that Robert Brian Waterhouse will die for the murder of Deborah Kammerer back in September 1980. Yes, if you do the math you’ll find that it has been over 30 years since Waterhouse was convicted of this crime and this latest execution date.
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So far, only one execution has occurred in 2012 in the United States: the January 6, 2012, execution of Gary Welch by a three-drug lethal injection (using phenobarbital) by the State of Oklahoma.
2012 US Execution Schedule
The Death Penalty Information Center updated its 2012 Execution Schedule on January 23, 2012, and it’s pretty amazing…
The Pew Research Center has just released its latest study, and it’s making the media rounds today. Seems their study finds that a solid majority of Americans – sixty-two percent (62%) — are in favor of the death penalty.
Read the Pew report online here, entitled "Continued Support for the Death Penalty."…
Fascinating news out of the Death Penalty Information Center: in 2011, there were only 43 executions after 2010’s 46 and 78 new death sentences were given to defendants in 2011 after 112 in 2010. That’s the big news: 112 down to 78 new sentences of death is record-breaking.
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…
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…
Long ago, just like in the movies, executions were public. Watch a Western, and you’ll see the hangings in the public square. Watch a film about the French Revolution, and there are the masses watching executions on the guillotine.
Should there be Public Executions in America?
Today, there is talk of making modern-day executions public…
Last month, as the Casey Anthony trial was underway, a federal district court judge issued an opinion that has longreaching implications (and caused Anthony’s defense attorneys to immediately move, albeit unsuccessfully, for a mistrial): the federal judge ruled that Florida’s death penalty statute was in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Federal Judge Finds Florida…