Did you know that the Death Penalty Information Center has compiled curricula on the death penalty for both the high school and college level?
From the DPIC website:
Our award-winning high school curriculum, Educational Curriculum on the Death Penalty, includes 10-day lesson plans, interactive maps and exercises, and a presentation of pros and
Last month, the Department of Justice released a report from the Inspector General’s Office about the work of the FBI in death penalty cases. It’s shocking.
READ THE REPORT ONLINE HERE, "An Assessment of the 1996 Department of Justice Task Force Review of the FBI Laboratory."
Specifically, the Inspector General compiled
Today, Jodi Arias was granted her request to represent herself in the second part of her Arizona death penalty trial. The second phase of the trial is called the "penalty phase" and it’s here that factors are considered in deciding whether or not she should be sentenced to death for the 2008 crime of killing
This was a big deal: a $200 Million Medicare Fraud operation where around 40 people have been sentenced to prison time for doing things like submitting false invoices to Medicare for mental health services that never happened.
This week, a federal jury came back with a verdict on the last 2 defendants in this big
The Florida Supreme Court has issued its Order that changes the Florida appellate process in death penalty cases.
The changes include what is required before a Florida attorney can represent someone in a capital case. approved a series of changes Thursday aimed at improving the death-penalty appeals process.
Read the complete Order here:
Paul Hildwin resides on Florida’s Death Row, having been sentenced to death for the 1985 killing of Vronzettie Cox who had been raped before she was strangled to death and her body left to be found in the trunk of a car.
The movie "Dead Man Walking" is now available for streaming on your smartphone, tablet, computer, or TV, via Netflix. If you are interested at all in the death penalty or capital punishment issues, then this is a Must See Film.
On June 19, 2014, the State of Florida executed John Ruthell Henry, rounding out a 24 hour period where three different executions took place in the United States — the first executions since that horrible event back in April, where Oklahoma’s lethal execution went terribly wrong.
The United States Supreme Court declined to act
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that Florida’s method of deciding if someone can or cannot be executed if they suffer from a mental disability has been ruled unconstitutional (read our posts on Hall v. Florida here), many people may assume that it’s automatic that Death Row inmates