Have you heard about how Texas executed the wrong man (no, not Cameron Todd Willingham)?
Here’s a good read for all those interested in the American system of death penalty / capital punishment. It tells the story of Carlos DeLuna, wrongfully executed for murdering a woman named Wanda Lopez.
It was only after an investigatory
Today, Jodi Arias was granted her request to represent herself in the second part of her Arizona death penalty trial. The second phase of the trial is called the "penalty phase" and it’s here that factors are considered in deciding whether or not she should be sentenced to death for the 2008 crime of killing
The Florida Supreme Court has issued its Order that changes the Florida appellate process in death penalty cases.
The changes include what is required before a Florida attorney can represent someone in a capital case. approved a series of changes Thursday aimed at improving the death-penalty appeals process.
Read the complete Order here:
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that Florida’s method of deciding if someone can or cannot be executed if they suffer from a mental disability has been ruled unconstitutional (read our posts on Hall v. Florida here), many people may assume that it’s automatic that Death Row inmates
Today, the United States Supreme Court held that the Florida statutory method for determining who is mentally disabled as a mitigating factor that bars the imposition of the death penalty to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
From SCOTUS:
"The State’s threshold requirement, as interpreted by the Florida Supreme Court, is unconstitutional."
Terence Lenamon is known for his work in defending people who are facing capital punishment as prosecutors seek the death penalty in trying these people for serious crimes. Much of Terry’s work is done in the "sentencing phase" of a death penalty case, where the defendant has been found guilty in the "trial
Today, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Hall v. Florida, where Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall argues that it is unconstitutional for the State of Florida to use a specific IQ score (i.e., 70) as the basis for allowing execution of anyone whose intellectual capacity measures above that number.
Right now, the U.S. Supreme Court is in the process of reviewing a Florida death penalty case that will impact capital punishment cases all across the United States. The High Court has agreed to review the decision made by the Florida Supreme Court in the case of Freddie L. Hall, a man sentenced to die
Terry Lenamon’s client, Michael Lamar Woods, will not be facing the possibility of being sentenced to death in the murder of Toni Centracco — prosecutors have filed the formal notification that in the new trial of Mr. Woods, the state will no longer seek the death penalty.
As you may recall from our earlier post