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23 Apr 2007, 11:11 pm
The new paper looked at the executions of 40 prisoners in North Carolina since 1984 and about a dozen in California, plus incomplete information from Florida and Virginia.... [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 11:06 pm
"Since the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty in 1976, the United States has had 1,070 executions, 901 of them by lethal injection, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 1:11 am
" In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled against Alphonso James, a Florida man with three prior felony convictions, including one for attempted burglary. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 9:42 am
C. 922(g)(1), petitioner James admitted to the three prior felony convictions listed in his federal indictment, including a Florida state-law conviction for attempted burglary. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 3:45 am
More than a dozen states have passed versions of Jessica's Law tocrack down on sex offenders and Gov. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 11:50 pm
Other states have prisoners on death row but haven't executed anyone in years. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 4:29 am
Maybe it won't take 34 minutes of screaming agony, like Angel Diaz's execution in Florida last December. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 2:57 am
Reported the Chronicle ("Texas prison guard shortage raises alarm," April 15):As leading lawmakers disagree on whether the state needs to build new prisons, Texas can't fully staff the lockups it has now. [read post]
14 Apr 2007, 6:56 am
Harmon, 53, was in prison for more than 11 years,though not at Lucasville.He said he knows what went through the minds of the people who becameinformants for the State Highway Patrol in the Lucasville riot. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 5:50 am
He suggested that ''where a delay, measured in decades,reflects the State's own failure to comply with the Constitution's demands,the claim that time has rendered the execution inhuman is a particularlystrong one.'' In 2002, in the case of a Florida inmate on death row forabout 27 years, Justice Breyer stated that if executed, the prisoner wouldhave been ''punished both by death and also by more than a generation… [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 1:12 am
Florida Supreme Court justices recently have pushed lawyers and law firms to step up their work on behalf of poor people in the state. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 9:41 pm
In recent years, lethal injection techniques have become the focus of legal questions in several states.In December, then-Florida Gov. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 11:09 pm
In the early 1990s,while working at the law library at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, hepetitioned the court for access to the DNA samples from the crime. [read post]
7 Apr 2007, 1:36 am
Tennessean excerpt:...If California, Missouri and Florida can't get an execution right in 90 days, Tennessee won't be able to, either, defense attorneys told prison officials Thursday. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 9:53 pm
Friday, 04/06/07 Lawyers doubt quick fix for executionsState says it will be set to kill Workman May 9By SHEILA BURKEStaff Writer If California, Missouri and Florida can't get an execution right in 90 days, Tennessee won't be able to, either, defense attorneys told prison officials Thursday. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 7:15 am
"The comments, made by Nashville Attorney Michael Passino and Tennessee-based Assistant Federal Public Defender Kelley Henry, were aired at the sole open forum designed to solicit public input as the DOC, under Commissioner George Little, goes about recommending a new protocol for lethal injections in Tennessee.On Feb. 2, Bredesen ordered a 90-day halt to all lethal injections against Tennessee's death row inmates, which he said would give the state time to correct "sloppy… [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 5:44 am
And DNA evidence is available injust a small percentage of cases.Sandy D'Alemberte, the former Florida State University president and onetimepresident of the American Bar Association, strongly advocates establishing acommission in Florida modeled after North Carolina's innocence panel. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 9:01 pm
Anderson purposely concocted his plan so as neither the option nor Anderson's name was recorded in public records, yet he was able to maintain total control.[11] In addition, during the time of the tax evasion scheme, Anderson claimed to be living in Florida, which does not have a state income tax requirement, while he actually resided in two different residences in the District of Columbia. [read post]