Right now, the Supreme Court of the United States is considering several cases dealing with capital punishment and how the death penalty is to be carried out in this country.
It’s getting to the end of the 2015 Term for the High Court, which means that we may expect some opinions to come down before
This week, the Massachusetts trial of Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continues in much the same way that a death penalty trial would in Florida or Texas.
The Two Parts of a Death Penalty Trial
In the Boston Marathon Bomber’s case, just like a Florida death penalty trial or a Texas case seeking the
We’re getting information now about how the death penalty and capital punishment fared in 2014. The first quarterly report from the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund has been released.
image: Cell on Florida’s Death Row
U.S. Death Row Populations: Most in California, 43% White
From it, we now have statistical confirmation that there
Terence Lenamon works to defend all his clients who are facing the possibility of capital punishment, and he works particularly hard for those defendants who have mental capacity issues based upon psychological and/or physical concerns.
Mitigating factors in these areas should prevent these individuals from being given the death penalty, much less being
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in the case of Brumfield v. Cain, a death penalty case coming out of Louisiana and filed by Death Row inmate Kevan Brumfield.
There are several different methods of execution used by the states (as well as the federal government and the U.S. Military) that offer ways to carry out a sentence of death other than the lethal injection method.
Image: Florida’s Electric Chair
Guillotines, for example, are well known execution methods (as sadly are
Right now, the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review (”granted writ”) the decision by the Florida Supreme Court in a case brought by a Florida Death Row inmate. (For details, check our recent post on this pending appeal.)
This decision by the nation’s High Court may well decide if the State
This week, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by Florida Death Row inmate Timothy L. Hurst that brings another challenge to the constitutionality of the Florida statute allowing for capital punishment and how a jury works in assessing the death penalty.
Read the Supreme Court Order here. The sole question