Terry Lenamon is currently in trial defending another high profile defendant, Joshua Fulgham, who is accused of killing his wife Heather Strong (read the Wikipedia article on her murder here). The trial is taking place in Marion County, Florida.
For blog readers who follow Terry’s trial work, here are some links to the day’s
For those that know Terry or have read his memoir, Heinous, Atrocious and Cruel (see it there in the left sidebar), you know that he is very concerned about mentally challenged individuals being sentenced to death not just in Florida but elsewhere in this country.
Which means we’ll be carefully following two cases that are
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Anthony George of the Guardian wrote Terry and asked if this video could be placed on the blog. Here it is, honored to be asked.
There is an interesting case being played out in Iowa right now – interesting because not only does it involves a woman on Death Row facing the death penalty, but also because it involves the federal death penalty statute.
Here’s what’s going on.
Last week, United States District Judge Mark Bennett, setting on the U.S.
One of the great things about the internet is its ability to educate and inform, and here’s yet another example of that: several excellent articles discussing aspects of the death penalty, and specifically, death penalty defense, have appeared this month.
All, available for free, online. Please consider reading the following:
Written by Terence Lenamon and Reba Kennedy, this short ebook (30,000 word count) is offered to anyone interested in the American criminal justice system, particularly in the areas of capital punishment and the right to counsel provided the poor under federal constitutional mandate as well as various state statutes. It is provided as an
1. Larry Ray Swearingen, Texas Death Row
Larry Swearingen maintains his innocence and his attorneys are fighting to have some tribunal hear what they are arguing is new evidence, uncovered since his trial, that proves Larry Swearingen is innocent of the killing of a Texas coed, Melissa Trotter – this includes both DNA evidence and circumstantial
Many have come to know about the AEDPA (Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ) because of the Troy Davis case (read our earlier post here). The AEDPA, however, impacts many, many capital punishment cases here in the United States, since it ties the hands of federal court judges to act
This week, the Miami Herald published the opinion piece written by Raoul Cantero, former Florida Supreme Court justice, and Mark R. Schlakman, senior program director for the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University.
Mr Schlakman also participated in the American Bar Association’s Florida Death Penalty Assessment. You can
Florida’s Execution Schedule has tomorrow, February 15, 2012, as the day that Robert Brian Waterhouse will die for the murder of Deborah Kammerer back in September 1980. Yes, if you do the math you’ll find that it has been over 30 years since Waterhouse was convicted of this crime and this latest execution date.
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