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15 Sep 2014, 5:02 am
Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed reports on the execution last week of Earl Ringo, a Missouri death row inmate whose stay requests were denied by a divided Supreme Court. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:00 am
Under this section inmates may apply for a sentence reduction, if following their sentencing, the United States Sentencing Commission reduces the guidelines for the offense of conviction. [read post]
25 May 2016, 9:44 am
According to a recent story from the AP, the state of Tennessee has stopped taking new inmates at its newest facility in Hartsville, TN after only 4 months of operation. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 3:24 pm
Diane Jennings reports, "Attorneys ask to move up inmate Hood's hearing, set for after execution," in today's Dallas Morning News.A state district judge has scheduled a hearing on whether to require depositions from the judge and prosecutor in the Charles Dean Hood death penalty trial, but the hearing is set for two days after his scheduled execution. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 9:51 am
DNA testing for Death Row inmates gets a lot of attention over in Texas, but it's really a national issue -- and lots of eyes are turned to Austin this week as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the November 8, 2011, execution of Hank Skinner. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 11:42 am
Larry Welborn of the Orange County Register has this article in a series on inmates on death row from Orange County, California. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 11:15 am
New Jersey's Star-Ledger editorial board reviews the results of a new death penalty study conducted by Stanford Law Professor John Donohue, which reveals that inmates on death row were indistinguishable from equally violent offenders who evaded the same sentence. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 12:09 pm
., Aug. 2, 2011) , law enforcement officials executed arrest warrants for two associates an escaped inmate at a multi-unit dwelling. [read post]
3 May 2014, 2:37 am
Vital reading [Charles Lane, City Journal, Sasha Volokh; earlier; related Kevin Williamson on incident at NYC's Riker's Island in which mentally ill inmate was permitted to roast to death, responsible officer drawing 30-day suspension] Narrowly defeated effort to enact state False Claims Act becomes issue in Senate GOP primary [Frederick News-Post, earlier here, here] Citing federal guidelines, Howard County schools restrict special-event food [Ellicott City Patch] Judge… [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 8:41 am
A state district judge has denied an attorney's request to recuse the Tarrant County district attorney's office from the appellate case of Death Row inmate Chelsea Richardson because of allegations of misconduct by a former prosecutor.Visiting state District Judge Steven Herod faxed his ruling to both parties but offered no explanation or opinion about his decision. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 8:22 am
The House Health Committee voted 8-5 to kill a measure that would have repealed the death penalty and changed the sentence for all death-row inmates to life in prison without parole.The bill's main sponsor, Rep. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 4:25 pm
ShareIn a brief order with no recorded dissents, the Supreme Court refused to block the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 57-year-old inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. [read post]
5 May 2011, 12:06 pm
You can read the complete California Death Row Inmate list here, which as of April 13, 2011, totals 713 with 19 women included in the tally. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 1:56 pm
A trial court judge in Ohio has ruled that the three-drug executioner's cocktail which the Supreme Court upheld in Baze v Rees may not be administered to Ohio Death Row inmates. [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 11:36 pm
The Houston Chronicle's Clay Robison says the Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge, Sharon Keller, may have to dig into her own pocket to defend against charges from the Judicial Conduct Commission:I doubt that many people will shed tears, but Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller may have to pay her own legal expenses to defend herself against charges she improperly shut the door on a condemned inmate's last-gasp appeal. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 6:14 pm
Sharon Keller was asked to extend her courthouse’s hours so that the lawyers for a death row inmate could file an appeal that might have overturned the sentence. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 1:38 pm
Bill Rankin reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:A federal judge on Tuesday emphatically rejected condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis' claims that he was wrongly convicted of killing a Savannah Police officer in 1989.In a 174-page order, U.S. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 1:44 pm
Justice Kagan's First Vote: The LA Times reports on Justice Elena Kagan's first vote as a Supreme Court justice - a dissenting vote in Tuesday's decision to lift the stay of execution of Arizona inmate Jeffrey Landigan (read Kent's post here). [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 9:41 am
Every year, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals sees challenges to the constitutionality of the Texas death penalty scheme from death row inmates…and every year, the CCA affirms the practice. [read post]
2 May 2011, 3:16 pm
Today, a Utah judge ruled a woman factually innocent of a murder she was convicted of in 1995, according to the Deseret News.Debra Brown was the first Utah inmate to use a new state law that allows for non-DNA innocence claims. [read post]
