The State of Oklahoma executed Michael Lee Wilson yesterday by lethal injection.
News media reports are that almost immediately after the injection process began (within 20 seconds), Wilson said, ‘I feel my whole body burning‘ yet his body didn’t react in such a way that any of the witnesses could see his
Terry Lenamon is currently defending client Andrew Castor in a Fort Myers criminal courtroom, as jury selection began this week.
Image: Terry in trial (different case) earlier this year.
The Death Penalty Information Center has issued its annual report on capital punishment in the United States – and finds that the number of executions fell below 40 for only the 2nd time in almost 20 years (1994).
The Florida Supreme Court issued its ruling in the use of midazolam hydrochloride as part of lethal injection executions this week.
Read the opinion in its entirety here. From their decision:
We acknowledge that, as we explained in Lightbourne, if the inmate is not fully unconscious when the second and third drugs, vecuronium bromide and
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A documentary worth your time to watch, here’s the description from YouTube:
Robert Sullivan (EXECUTED), Dane T. Gafford (Danny Gafford( (INCARCARATED), and Dennis Whitney (DIED A PRISONER) tell their stories about the DEATH PENALTY and is it right or wrong. Filmed in 1980, “On Location: Death Row Florida State Prison”, represents the first time
Right now, the U.S. Supreme Court is in the process of reviewing a Florida death penalty case that will impact capital punishment cases all across the United States. The High Court has agreed to review the decision made by the Florida Supreme Court in the case of Freddie L. Hall, a man sentenced to die
Documentary film maker Andrea (Andy) Scott has a new documentary coming out that may be interesting to those following death penalty issues …. It’s a film covering a local community in Arizona that has an economy revolving around 9 different incarceration spots, be they prisons, jails or immigration detention centers.
The town is Florence
Terry Lenamon’s client, Michael Lamar Woods, will not be facing the possibility of being sentenced to death in the murder of Toni Centracco — prosecutors have filed the formal notification that in the new trial of Mr. Woods, the state will no longer seek the death penalty.
As you may recall from our earlier post