On Oklahoma’s Death Row, two men who were set to die either this week or next week have had their executions extended because the State of Oklahoma has not been able to find the necessary drugs for the lethal injection executions.
Meanwhile, the State of Texas went ahead with its lethal injection execution of Ray
Right now, Terence Lenamon and Melissa Ortiz of Lenamon Law are in trial in Miami, Florida — a murder trial that is expected to run for around two months in the courtroom of Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez.
However, Terry Lenamon and his associate are acting as "stand by counsel" for the
Today, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Hall v. Florida, where Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall argues that it is unconstitutional for the State of Florida to use a specific IQ score (i.e., 70) as the basis for allowing execution of anyone whose intellectual capacity measures above that number.
From the Florida Department of Corrections:
The electric chair is made of oak and was constructed by Corrections Department personnel in 1998. It was installed at Florida State Prison in Starke in 1999, replacing the chair constructed in 1923. It should be noted that the only aspect of the current electric chair that is new
Maybe you’ve read some of Carl Hiassen’s thrillers over the years – or maybe your kids have read some of Carl Hiassen’s children’s books (like Flush, Chomp, or Scat).
If you haven’t, then you just might like to check out (and have a great laugh or two) how Florida is portrayed
Up in Washington, there isn’t going to be any executions for awhile because the current governor, Governor Jay Inslee, has announced that he’s against the death penalty and he’s going to use his power to issue reprieves to stop executions in that state.
This means that defendants can still face the death penalty in trials
The Death Penalty Information Center keeps track of executions in the United States and you can review the list, which includes name, date of death, which state executed the person, and more online here (click on the image):
The United States Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Herbert Smulls by the State of Missouri, but the argument isn’t because Missouri is doing some strange new combination of untested drugs in a lethal injection method – no, the argument surrounds whether or not the identity of the supplier of pentobarbital must be revealed.
Image: Terence Lenamon in foreground, with client Andrew Castor and Terry’s co-defense counsel, LenamonLaw’s Melissa Ortiz, during trial. Photo by Marisa Kendall / The News-Press
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Pictured above is Terry Lenamon at work during the recent trial of Andrew Castor over in Cape Coral, Florida. The death penalty was taken off the table early
Dennis McGuire was executed by the State of Ohio using a new two-drug combination that had never been used in an execution in Ohio, or anywhere else for that matter. Many warned about the possibility that this lethal injection method would be the very cruel and inhuman type of death that the U.S. Constitution prohibits.