Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
Below, information that I have sent to friends and colleagues throughout the State of Florida which I want to share with my blog readers as well:
I am ecstatic to share the victory of Grady Nelson for death penalty litigation. (See "Novel Defense Helps Spare Perpetrator of Grisly Murder," by David Ovalle in the Miami Herald…
This Monday, without comment, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for writ of certiorari filed by Bruce Carneil Webster, who sets on the federal Death Row. (See the docket sheet here.)
Mr. Webster had sought the High Court’s relief, arguing that courts should be able to consider evidence that one federal judge sitting…
Last week, the jury returned its recommendation in the Grady Nelson trial, after spending only one hour deliberating whether or not they would vote for the death penalty. They did not.
A Horrific Tragedy in 2005
Grady Nelson, 53, did not get a death sentence, instead he will serve life behind bars without parole. This, even…
There will be a longer post regarding the Grady Nelson trial that just finished yesterday, when the jury came back to tell us that they were recommending life and not death for Grady Nelson. Shortly thereafter, Judge Hogan-Scola sentenced Nelson to life without parole.
For news coverage, see the Miami Herald and the Associated Press…
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens believed in capital punishment at one time; he does not support the death penalty today. And, in an article published in the December 23, 2010, issue of the New York Review of Books (available now online), entitled "On the Death Sentence," Justice Stevens tells…
Today, Maura Dolan of the Los Angeles Times provides excellent reporting of the indigent defense crisis as it impacts death penalty appeals in California. Read the article, "Lack of funding builds death row logjam," in its entirety here.
It’s a topic that gets covered periodically by the national media: a cruel reality…
WBNS-TV in Ohio is reporting this week on a topic that we periodically delve into: the reality of the death penalty appeals process, and how expensive this is in both time and money. Good. The fact that not enough money exists for effective death penalty defense at the trial level, and how this directly correlates to…
A lengthy report was issued last month by the Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee (read it in its entirety here). Several reforms were suggested by the Committee (read them here) – but it doesn’t seem that much coverage has been provided the Committee’s efforts by the news media.
Or so…
Today, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) held a press conference to release details about their latest poll concerning capital punishment in America today. The DPIC describes its efforts as one of "the most comprehensive studies ever conducted of Americans’ views on the death penalty."
The poll itself was done by Lake Research Partners. Those polled? 1500 registered voters. …
Okay, we’re aware that there is a national shortage of thiopental sodium, one of the three drugs legally okayed to be used in execution by lethal injection. The result has been delaying some executions. In at least one instance, an execution kept to the calendar as the needed drug was purchased from an overseas…