Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The title of this post is the headline of this FoxNews piece, which spotlights that the death penalty has entered conversations in the aftermath of the horrible events at Fort Hood earlier this week. Here is the start of the...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
"Kentucky's troubled death-penalty system lets cases languish for decades": This article appeared yesterday in The Louisville Courier-Journal, along with an article headlined "Killer's appeals drag on 29 years."...
Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
This story from the Boston Globe, which is headlined "Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief," highlights that the politics of the death penalty in Massachusetts in quite different than in other parts of the country. Here is the...
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fox News “Could”? Surely you jest…”COULD“? This one does it for me for the evening. I must either hit my damn thumb with a hammer, or bang my head against a wall. On second thought I think I’ll do both…Later peebles…”COULD“? You have got to be shitting me. Posted in Uncategorized
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
After five weeks of testimony and about 70 witnesses, a DuPage County jury will hear closing arguments Tuesday in the death penalty sentencing hearing for Brian Dugan for the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, of Naperville. On the final day of testimony, Dugan told Judge George Bakalis that he was declining to testify on his own behalf, a decision supported by his team of five...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The lawyers and a Philadelphia judge today completed a third day of jury selection, getting the eighth of 12 jurors to hear the murder trial of a North Philadelphia man charged in the Oct. 31, 2007, shooting of police Officer Chuck Cassidy.
SFist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
We feel compelled to update you on Edward Wycoff, the Sacramento County truck driver who killed his sister and brother-in-law, Paul and Julie Rogers, in their El Cerrito home in 2006 because they had "screwed up" his family. The completely batshit insane, lawyer-hating, egomaniacal bigot, who was somehow allowed to represent himself at trial despite the fact that he obviously has a personality...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
John Bradley, the hang-em-high Williamson County District Attorney who was appointed to chair the Texas Forensic Science Commission by Governor Perry in August, tries to reassure us that there will be no Perry-saving monkey business on the Commission. He has the opposite effect. The commission wants to reassure you that the Cameron Todd Willingham case, involving [...]
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just got an email from a guy named Dudley Sharp supporting Rick Perry’s decision to suspend the panel that was looking into the prosecution of Cameron Todd Willingham. The piece is pretty incoherent—there are no factual statements of any kind and it opens with an extended rant against the media that has almost [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Lisa Gray in the Houston Chronicle: Every death penalty case raises big, Biblical themes: vengeance versus mercy, punishment versus redemption, the Old Testament versus the New. But never have those themes been plainer than they are in the case of 32-year-old Khristian Oliver, who — pending a last-minute stay of execution — will be executed this evening. During [...]
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief": Today's edition of The Boston Globe contains an article that begins, "Attorney General Martha Coakley, who says she is firmly against capital punishment, has drawn the ire of some death penalty opponents...
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A court sentenced four people to death in northern Tanzania for the killing of an albino man who was targeted for body parts believed to have special powers, authorities said Friday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Goodluck Nana Opiah yesterday signed into law the death penalty bill for kidnappers and hostage takers. This follows the refusal of Governor Ikedi Ohakim to accent to the bill passed a couple of months ago.
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
…alternatively, he’s just dumber than soap. From a CNS interview (H/T: Instapundit ): CNSNews.com: “So, in general, if a person doesn’t want health insurance, do you think they should be required by the government to actually have to get it'” Senator Burris: “Under state law, we have every one required to have automobile insurance. Now, think about that. Sure,...
State Journal Featured Content (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A jury has sentenced Yarbrough to life in prison for the death of two college students.
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patrickguillard | 10/10/2008
October, 10th is the World-wide and European Day against Death Penalty. For this occasion, a joint declaration was signed by the Presidents of EU and Council of Europe Institutions
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i think that the death penalty should be abolished be cause the 10 commandments declare that "thou shall not take life from another"
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