Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
John Marek died last Wednesday due to lethal injection at the hands of the State of Florida. His hard-working defense attorney — who had filed last minute appeals to the Supreme Court trying to keep Marek alive — didn’t go to watch. Who can blame him.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that…
Pretty soon, looks like we’re all going to know the name Dan Frumkin. Who’s he?
Dan Frumkin is the author of an article in the respected journal Forensic Science International: Genetics where he writes that DNA evidence can be created in a lab – TOTALLY FABRICATED – and he warns that the real possibility of…
This week, the New York Times reports that dissents are increasing in federal cases, based in large part upon judicial frustration with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. According to their investigation and research, this single statute has been the basis of 6 -24 dissents per year in federal death penalty…
Yesterday, the jury came back in the murder trial of Justin Heyne. The 12 jurors found Heyne guilty of the March 2006 murder of his roommates, Sarah Buckowski and Benjamin Hamilton and their 5-year-old daughter, Ivory.
The verdict was read to a packed courtroom. Mr. Heyne stood to hear his fate in a dark…
John Marek’s attorneys are fighting hard to stop the State of Florida from killing their client.
Today, they filed an appeal with the highest court in the land, the United States Supreme Court, to try and stop the execution of John Richard Marek. With the Florida Supreme Court ruling that it will not hear…
In these economic times, there has been significant media coverage of various states considering the banning of the death penalty — not on moral grounds or arguments about its ineffectiveness in crime prevention, but on the simple argument that it costs too much. That’s right: it is cheaper to keep someone incarcerated for the rest…
Earlier this month, Herman Lindsay was freed from Death Row after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that there just wasn’t enough evidence to find Mr. Lindsay guilty of anything — much less sentence him to death. Herman Lindsay became a free man this month, after being tried and convicted in 2006 for the robbery and…
Here in the United States, it depends upon which state you’re considering — some states have the death penalty, some do not. Some are zealous in executing those on Death Row (think Texas), others have inmates living on Death Row for years and years (think Oregon).
However, in Japan, things are different. Japan has…
Last week, as an amendment to the Department of Defense fiscal authorization bill to cover 2010 expenses, the U.S. Senate passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
This week, the Senate passed an amendment to the Act – and if this becomes law, it will allow capital punishment for those found guilty of hate…
The news has been filled this week with the questioning of the Latina who may well be our next U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and some may be wondering why all the hoopla. Well, let’s look back to 1972, where one single justice’s vote successfully halted capital punishment in this country for four years.