Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
This month, the Death Penalty Information Center shares a new podcast with its PowerPoint presentation, entitled "Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder?."
View the PowerPoint presentation here.
Listen to the podcast here.
In it, DPIC Fellow Seth Rose and Executive Director Robert Dunham detail research studies that reveal Death Penalty does not deter murders…
Terence Lenamon fights against the death penalty as his life’s calling. This week, he is involved the jury selection for the William Wells case over in Starke. (Wells is the man whom the media has dubbed the "Mayport Monster.")
And if you listen to the arguments of Dennis Prager in this video (which had over…
Did you know that Terence Lenamon was on the faculty of the Trial Lawyer’s College founded by renowned trial lawyer Gerry Spence?
What is the Trial Lawyer’s College?
Here’s the mission statement from the site:
The Trial Lawyer’s College is dedicated to training and educating lawyers…
This week in Florida, there were two major events involving capital punishment in the Sunshine State.
1. Asay Execution With Etomidate
First, the execution of Florida Death Row inmate Mark James Asay was carried out on August 24, 2017.
This was the first execution by the State of Florida in over 19 months. Executions have…
Of course, the biggest result of the Florida Supreme Court’s decision this week in Asay v. Florida is its failure to block the impeding execution of Mark James Asay.
Read the full opinion here: Asay v. State, No. SC17-1400 (Fla. Aug. 14, 2017).
Asay Execution Remains Scheduled for August 24, 2017
The State…
Next month, the death penalty trial of William Wells is set to begin in Bradford County, Florida, on September 4, 2017.
You may recognize this case as the "Mayport Monster" case. Terence Lenamon is defense counsel for William Wells.
Of interest here to many: this is another defendant facing the death penalty who…
In our last post, we discussed the upcoming August 2017 trial of James Bannister and gave some background information for the continuance motion filed and argued by Terence Lenamon as defense counsel for Mr. Bannister.
It looked pretty solid then that the trial would begin this month.
Things have changed.
Continuance …
The capital murder trial of James Bannister is set to go forward in a little over two weeks.
Bannister Jury Selection Set for August 14
Terence Lenamon’s motion for a continuance of the August 2017 trial date was denied by the judge after a hearing earlier this month. It was not his first continuance motion.
The Florida Execution Schedule is up and running again. Governor Rick Scott has signed the Death Warrant for an August execution, the first execution for Florida in 18 months.
Mark James Asay is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on August 24, 2017, at six o’clock in the afternoon.
Death Warrant …
The Death Penalty Information Center website is a great resource for anyone interested in learning more about capital punishment in the United States. And the site just keeps getting better.
They’ve got site-specific pages for each state, for one thing.
DPIC State-Specific Page: Florida
There’s a great deal of Florida Death Penalty information collected…