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11 Apr 2019, 2:00 am
Supreme Court rejected a death row inmate’s Eighth Amendment challenge. [read post]
17 May 2022, 8:30 am
The justices have specifically agreed to consider the following questions: “(1) Whether an inmate’s as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a §1983 action if the inmate pleads an alternative method of execution not currently authorized by state law; and (2) whether, if such a challenge must be raised in habeas, it constitutes a successive petition when the challenge would not have been ripe at the… [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 2:07 am
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose supporters say is innocent and should be spared from execution for killing a police officer 20 years ago.Davis has spent 18 years on death row for the 1989 slaying of Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 2:58 pm
An unnamed Republican Senate aide is quoted as follows in responding to the Wendell Callahan sentencing reform scandal, in which two little African American girls and their mother were knifed to death by a federal inmate given early release under a 2010 sentencing reform law:You're never going to eliminate the Willie Horton type of situation, the political ads aside, of somebody coming out [of prison] and committing a crime. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 10:55 am
In 2011, a group of death row inmates sued the FDA to block the importation of sodium thiopental, a barbiturate that is highly effective in ensuring that lethal injection executions are nearly painless. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 12:41 pm
This article appeared in the New York Times on November 21, 2006:Ex-Inmate's Malpractice Suit Is Settled With Noted LawyersBy WILLIAM K. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 6:40 am
This is an embarassing decision for the New York Attorney General's office, which blew a deadline and waived its right to a sure-fire challenge to an inmate's otherwise successful habeas corpus petition.The case is Stevens v. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 5:51 am
This news article, headlined "Failure emerges in call for shorter crack sentences: Many inmates are not given lawyers," reports on an interesting (and troublesomely disparate) aspect of the implementation of the USSC's new crack guidelines: As federal courts begin deciding whether thousands of prisoners should receive shorter crack cocaine sentences, some judges are telling convicts that they won't get lawyers to help them argue for leniency. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 9:35 pm
Supreme Court last week clarified that courts mustweigh the mental health of death row inmates before their execution toensure that they understand why they're being punished and the punishment'sconnection with their crimes.But in Indiana this year, state lawmakers will take the debate a stepfurther.A study committee will take testimony on the larger issue of whetherdefendants who were severely mentally ill at the time of their crimes shouldface the death penalty at… [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 7:43 pm
WWL-TV reports: A federal appeals court has upheld a $14 million award to a former Louisiana death row inmate who was exonerated after 18 years in prison. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 5:32 pm
And Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that "Supreme Court upholds liability judgment in cross-gender inmate search. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 4:20 pm
While there, he smuggled in tobacco, liquor, cell phones and drugs, provided muscle for pay back beatings of inmates, and pimped out three female officers, "copstitutes," to inmates and senior management. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 6:36 pm
In 10 South it is freezing; the lights are kept on 24 hours a day and when the toilets break, which is often, inmates are given bags to defecate in. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 6:17 am
Inmates are looking to get out of jail, and a good habeas corpus petition can get you there. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 10:59 am
Well, it seems some enterprising inmates and families and friends of inmates are treating paper products with clear liquid chemicals. [read post]
27 Apr 2013, 8:22 am
One notices inmates count when legislators want them to and not when they don't. [read post]
4 Sep 2016, 9:47 am
From the intro:PRESIDENT OBAMA began August by commuting the sentences of 214 federal inmates, and he ended the month by commuting 111 more. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 4:05 am
The inmate bringing the suit disputed that characterization. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 10:11 am
"With respect to the second occasion, Employee told his supervisor that he objected to his assignment which required him to work in an inmate area. [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 6:18 am
In July, a White House commission on opioid addiction called for increasing inmates’ access to addiction medication.Somebody help me out here, I can't keep track any more: is that a liberal or a conservative position? [read post]
