Mike Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel wrote an editorial earlier this month that gives a good overview on where the State of Florida is (and was) in its methods of executing inmates on Death Row. In "The death penalty: A dead end in Florida," Thomas discusses the various methods that the state has used
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Public Executions – The Debate on Making Executions Available for Everyone to Watch
Posted in Death Penalty - States
Long ago, just like in the movies, executions were public. Watch a Western, and you’ll see the hangings in the public square. Watch a film about the French Revolution, and there are the masses watching executions on the guillotine.
Should there be Public Executions in America?
Today, there is talk of making modern-day executions public…
Florida Death Penalty Statute Found Unconstitutional – Terry Lenamon on What It Means and Full Text of Opinion, Evans v McNeil
Posted in Death Penalty - States
Last month, as the Casey Anthony trial was underway, a federal district court judge issued an opinion that has longreaching implications (and caused Anthony’s defense attorneys to immediately move, albeit unsuccessfully, for a mistrial): the federal judge ruled that Florida’s death penalty statute was in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Federal Judge Finds Florida…
Terry Lenamon in the Media
Posted in Personal
Terry Lenamon has been extremely busy the past few months, juggling things like:
- finalizing his new memoir/ebook – which is being published in a matter of weeks by Telemachus Press;
- representing clients facing the death penalty;
- speaking with the press as founder of the Florida Capital Resource Center on the recent federal court ruling that
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Blog on Hiatus This Month
Posted in Personal
For the month of June (and maybe longer), there will be no new posts here and we won’t be responding to comments, because Terry and I will be busy finalizing books for publication and there’s only so much time in the schedule ….
Perhaps this is the 21st Century version of hanging out a "Gone…
Guest Post by James Madieros of Criminal Justice Degrees Schools: How State Budget Issues Are Effecting Death Penalty Cases
Posted in Death Penalty Resources
As part of our invitation to other bloggers to guest here on the Death Penalty Blog, Terry and I are happy to publish the following article sent to us by Charles Sipe of the career-advice website, Criminal Justice Degrees Schools. Here, without edit or change, is James Madieros’ article for your consideration. Thanks, Charles…
DOJ Halts Arizona’s Execution of Donald Beaty On Unsafe Drug Argument, So Arizona Goes Forward with Pentobarbital. That’s Apparently Fine.
Posted in Execution Methods
Now, not only is the U.S. Department of Justice going state-by-state and scooping up any remaining supplies of sodium thiopental (see our earlier post for details), it has informed the State of Arizona that Arizona cannot legally use its sodium thiopental supply because it is the opinion of the Justice Department that Arizona got that…
New Hampshire Expanding Death Penalty to Make It Available for Killings During Home Invasions
Posted in Death Penalty - States
Most of the states in this country today are either concerned about how they are going to execute the inmates they already have on Death Row, what with the lack of drugs for their lethal injection process, or they are debating getting rid of capital punishment if for no other reason than cost.
Then …
Univ of Miami Law Prof. Winick’s 2009 Predictions on U.S. Supreme Court and Mentally Ill Death Penalty Cases
Posted in Fact Issues - Death Penalty
In 2002, the United States Supreme Court handed down Atkins v. Virginia – that’s less than ten years ago. Hard to believe, in many ways.
In 2009, Bruce Winick, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Director, Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, published an article in the…
DEA is Grabbing Up All the Sodium Thiopental? No Wonder Pentobarbital Is Popular in Executions
Posted in Execution Methods
As we discussed before, there has been a challenge to the use of drugs purchased overseas in executions undertaken by various states. (Specifically, the use of sodium thiopental purchased by Georgia from a questionable British supplier.)
However, news this week has it that in response, the federal government has been going around and…