Crime and Consequences (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
The California Court of Appeal, First District has held that the lethal injection protocol is a regulation subject to the Administrative Procedures Act. The decision in Morales v. Cal. Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation is here. If CDCR had simply...
Daily News (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO - California's new lethal injection plan could be further delayed, after a state appeals court ruled that the state didn't follow proper procedure when devising the plan.
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
JAMAICA SEEMS set to retain the death penalty but the hangman could have his workload shared as some parliamentarians have proposed the use of lethal injection and the electric chair in carrying out the punishment. Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... the N.C. Medical Board against the Department of Correction, which wants a doctor to make sure lethal injections are properly administered. That, the department says, guards against a violation of the constitutional law against cruel and unusual punishment. But the medical board contends that lawmakers, in requiring a doctor's presence, only meant that the doctor should certify that...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Great quarter-page ad from the November 11, 2008 New York Times.
Sons Of Sam (Free subscription) | yesterday
Marco Chapman has been executed @ 7:34pm this evening by lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary Death Chamber near Eddyville Lexington Herald Leader EDDYVILLE — Marco Allen Chapman, scheduled to be lethally injected by the state Friday night for killing two children and stabbing and raping their mother in Northern Kentucky in 2002, spent his final morning writing...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Marco Allen Chapman was executed Friday night for the 2002 knife attack that left two Gallatin County children dead and their mother and sister injured. Strapped to a gurney, Chapman was given a lethal injection of three drugs.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kentucky is on the verge of its first execution in nine years as prison officials prepare to give a lethal injection to confessed child-killer Marco Allen Chapman.
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
That's the title of an editorial in today's Winston-Salem Journal on North Carolina's lethal injection challenge. LINKCritics of our appellate courts often skewer judges for being "judicial activists." But a case before the N.C. Supreme Court demonstrates that overly zealous...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
EDDYVILLE, Ky. Kentucky has executed a confessed child-killer who resisted all appeals.
In the state's first execution in nine years, 37-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection Friday at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 7:34 p.m. CST.
Chapman pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two children in their northern Kentucky home in a 2002...
On Deadline (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Army is gearing up for its first execution in nearly half a century. Pvt. Ronald Gray is scheduled to die by lethal injection Dec. 10 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. "In 1988, a court-martial panel sitting at Fort Bragg, N.C., convicted Pvt. Gray by unanimous vote of committing crimes in 1986 and 1987 in the Fayetteville, N.C. area -- to include two murders, an attempted...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
California's revised procedures for lethal injections are invalid because they were never submitted to the public for comment, a state appeals court ruled Friday in a decision that will prolong the court-imposed moratorium on executions at San Quentin State...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Kentucky executes first inmate in 9 yearsEDDYVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky has executed a confessed child-killer who resisted all appeals.In the state's first execution in nine years, 37-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection Friday at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 7:34 p.m. CST.Chapman pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two children in their northern...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Last updated November 21, 2008 5:55 p.m. PTKentucky executes first inmate in 9 yearsEDDYVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky has executed a confessed child-killer who resisted all appeals.In the state's first execution in nine years, 37-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection Friday at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 7:34 p.m. CST.Chapman pleaded guilty...
Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
As if gay marriage wasn’t a hot enough topic, the First District Court of Appeal on Friday effectively tossed the state Supreme Court a prickly death penalty case. The appellate panel affirmed a Marin County Superior Court ruling that the state failed to follow proper public-vetting policies in establishing a new lethal injection procedure last year. A spokesman for the Department of...
