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Florida prosecutor Aramis Ayala took a stand against the death penalty which resulted in Florida Governor Scott removing two dozen cases from her docket. For details, read the media coverage published by the Miami Herald on June 28, 2017, written by Steve Bousquet: “Orlando prosecutor defends stance against death penalty.”
One of the cases…
Terence Lenamon was victorious this week, as a Florida jury refused to sentence Frantzy Jean-Marie to death for the murders of Armstrong Rivere and his girlfriend Stephanie Adams back in March 2013. For details, read the article written by Charles Rabin…
The State of Nevada has scheduled the execution of Scott Dozier for July 11, 2018. The execution method will be lethal injection. It is the state’s first execution in 12 years.
On Tuesday, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced that the Dozier Execution will involve the use of the following three drugs:
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Charles Rhines sits on the South Dakota Death Row waiting to hear if his Petition for Writ will be granted by the U.S. Supreme Court this week (conference of June 14, 2018).
Mr. Rhines seeks review of his capital trial proceedings, arguing that there was an improper refusal to consider evidence demonstrating that his sexual…
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling on the request from Texas Death Row Inmate Carlos Trevino, who asked SCOTUS to review what happened in his criminal trial’s sentencing (penalty) phase and the introduction of mitigating evidence against the death penalty.
SCOTUS declined the request, and will not hear the…
Right now, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagoutzis sits in the Galveston County Jail after confessing to being the active shooter responsible for last week’s high school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas.
In Florida, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz sets in jail in Broward County, Florida, facing 17 counts of murder for the high school shooting on Valentine’s Day at Marjory…
Two more petitions for a writ of certiorari were denied on Monday by the Supreme Court of the United States in capital cases coming out of Florida.
They are dealing with review of current Florida Death Row inmates’ sentences where they were sentenced to die under a statutory scheme deemed unconstitutional by the High Court. …
It’s Monday morning, and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has issued its orders of the day. Included among them, denial of the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Hidalgo v. Arizona.
For background, read our earlier posts:
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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…
The Marshall Project has published its analysis of the state of the Death Penalty as we enter into 2018. See, "What to Know About the Death Penalty in 2018," by Maurice Chammah of the Marshall Project and published in the ABA Journal.
It’s a good read. Taking everything that has happened – and which…
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