Now that the Florida death penalty scheme has been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida. what happens now?
1. Florida Supreme Court Allows Feb 11 Execution to Proceed
That’s not an easy question to answer. For one thing, the State of Florida is more than ready to keep its
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States released its opinion in Hurst v. Florida.
Read the Supreme Court Opinion (including its sole dissent by Justice Alito) here.
What has happened here is that the highest court in the nation has ruled Florida’s process in death penalty trials violates the Sixth Amendment of the U.S.
Wow. Gathering together data from the Death Penalty Information Center as well as pre-1976 data from M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla, Time Magazine (hat tip to Chris Wilson, Emily Maltby and Lon Tweeten) has put together a really amazing compilation regarding the death penalty in America.
Go here to read, " Every Execution
The Supreme Court of the United States just heard oral arguments in the Florida death penalty statute case Hurst v. Florida — go here to read the full transcript.
For details on the case as it proceeds before the High Court, check out SCOTUS blog.
There’s a new online resource for those interested in capital punishment and the death penalty here in the United States. It’s called The Next To Die.
New Death Penalty Online Resource: The Next to Die
The Next to Die is a site published by The Marshall Project (a non-profit news organization – more about The
This month, the Supreme Court of the United States is going to be hearing oral arguments in the following Death Penalty cases, each asking the High Court to rule on aspects of the Eighth Amendment.
Text of the Eighth Amendment
First, here’s the Eighth Amendment – that’s right, it’s only 16 words long:
Excessive bail
We’ve posted about the case of the man who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic and who sits on Texas’ Death Row awaiting execution. Read the details about the case here (you may recall Scott Panetti as the man who defended himself at his criminal trial, and tried to call as witnesses — among others &mdash
This week, the State of Colorado proceeds in its case against James Holmes, the young man convicted last week of several counts of murder in the shooting of 12 people inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Specifically, Holmes was found guilty of 24 counts of first-degree murder for which he now faces the possibility
With all the talk about the Supreme Court of the United States okaying the State of Oklahoma’s lethal injection method of execution (see Glossip v. Gross), there hasn’t been much discussion about two other capital punishment cases that were pending before the High Court.
Leonard Pitts. Jr., wrote an opinion piece on the death penalty that was published in the Miami Herald on June 13, 2015.
Pitts’ op-ed has been circulating around the web in circles where capital punishment is a concern. It’s also been read by those who are watching Washington, D.C. to learn what the Supreme Court