Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
Most of the states in this country today are either concerned about how they are going to execute the inmates they already have on Death Row, what with the lack of drugs for their lethal injection process, or they are debating getting rid of capital punishment if for no other reason than cost.
Then …
Right now, the State of California has over 700 people living on its Death Row. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 260 are white; 255 are African American; 158 are Hispanic American; and 38 are not categorized.
You can read the complete California Death Row Inmate list here, which as of…
Yesterday, the Florida Senate passed an amendment to HJR 7111 — an amendment co-sponsored by 10 Republican Senators – which served to remove by amendment the earlier bill which split the Florida Supreme Court and created a new Florida high court for criminal matters (as described in our post last week). Read the …
One more scholarly effort can be placed onto that ever-growing stack of research studies that find capital punishment is simply untrustworthy, that it is procedurally flawed. Never mind the morality. Or mercy. Or the growing problem of finding drugs for those lethal injections …. The study nixes the death penalty before these issues even arise.
Matthew Robinson of …
This week, Terry Lenamon was interviewed by Ana M. Valdes of the Palm Beach Post for his expert opinion as a death-qualified criminal defense attorney regarding the Jorge and Carmen Barahona murder trial, now that the prosecution has announced that it will be seeking the death penalty.
In an article entitled, "Barahonas to face …
The Reverend Carroll Pickett served as the death house chaplain for the State of Texas for many years, and he holds the international record for witnessing the most government executions (95).
Today, Reverend Pickett tours the country on a speaking circuit, voicing his oppostion to the death penalty. (For details, go to the Texas Coalition Against the…
The pressure is building over in Illinois …. Governor Pat Quinn still has not made his decision on whether or not Illinois will abolish the death penalty. Not that he isn’t busy enough with massive blizzards, and a budget that’s broke, among other things.
Maybe he’s distracted, right? Maybe that is why in yesterday’s Chicago …
New Hampshire is holding two public hearings today in its House of Representatives (HR 147 at 10 o’clock, HR 162 at one o’clock) on two separate proposals to expand the death penalty. That’s right – in the midst of all the challenges across the country to capital punishment (Illinois, for example), there are still jurisdictions that…
Across the country, a lot of attention has been given to Kevin Fine, a trial court judge setting in Houston over a state criminal court. Texas has lots of criminal courts, and Houston’s Harris County has a number of folk presiding over the criminal bench — but Judge Fine has become somewhat famous from that number because he had the…
We’re all still waiting to see whether or not Illinois Governor Pat Quinn will sign into law the proposed legislation on his desk which would abolish capital punishment in that state. You can almost hear the sound of a thousand fingernails drumming impatiently on tabletops across the country ….
Meanwhile, over in Maryland it’s a…