Last month, the Department of Justice released a report from the Inspector General’s Office about the work of the FBI in death penalty cases. It’s shocking.
READ THE REPORT ONLINE HERE, "An Assessment of the 1996 Department of Justice Task Force Review of the FBI Laboratory."
Specifically, the Inspector General compiled
Maybe you’ve read some of Carl Hiassen’s thrillers over the years – or maybe your kids have read some of Carl Hiassen’s children’s books (like Flush, Chomp, or Scat).
If you haven’t, then you just might like to check out (and have a great laugh or two) how Florida is portrayed
Up in Washington, there isn’t going to be any executions for awhile because the current governor, Governor Jay Inslee, has announced that he’s against the death penalty and he’s going to use his power to issue reprieves to stop executions in that state.
This means that defendants can still face the death penalty in trials
Image: Terence Lenamon in foreground, with client Andrew Castor and Terry’s co-defense counsel, LenamonLaw’s Melissa Ortiz, during trial. Photo by Marisa Kendall / The News-Press
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Pictured above is Terry Lenamon at work during the recent trial of Andrew Castor over in Cape Coral, Florida. The death penalty was taken off the table early
The Death Penalty Information Center has issued its annual report on capital punishment in the United States – and finds that the number of executions fell below 40 for only the 2nd time in almost 20 years (1994).
The Florida Supreme Court issued its ruling in the use of midazolam hydrochloride as part of lethal injection executions this week.
Read the opinion in its entirety here. From their decision:
We acknowledge that, as we explained in Lightbourne, if the inmate is not fully unconscious when the second and third drugs, vecuronium bromide and
Documentary film maker Andrea (Andy) Scott has a new documentary coming out that may be interesting to those following death penalty issues …. It’s a film covering a local community in Arizona that has an economy revolving around 9 different incarceration spots, be they prisons, jails or immigration detention centers.
The town is Florence
