Criminal Law

Anesthesiologists face penalty for participating in death penalty

Posted on July 01, 2010
May 3, 2010by Vicky EckenrodeThe American Board of Anesthesiologists has decided to drop the certification of any member who participates in a prisoner?s death sentence, according to a recent Washington Post article.If enforced, it would mean anesthesiologists who help administer the lethal injection process could lose their ability to practice in most hospitals...

Anesthesiologist Group To Decertify Physicians Who Help With Lethal Injections

Posted on July 01, 2010
MAY 03, 2010The American Board of Anesthesiologists "has quietly decided to revoke the certification of any member who participates in executing a prisoner by lethal injection," according toThe Washington Post. The decision "reflects its leaders' belief that 'we are healers, not executioners,' board secretary Mark A...

Briton on death row in Texas seeks stay from Supreme Court

Posted on July 01, 2010
May 03, 2010|By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles TimesWhen British consular officials in Houston first learned that Linda Carty was in trouble with the law, the St. Kitts-born British national was already on death row in Texas, convicted in a bizarre plot to kill a neighbor and kidnap her newborn son...

Supreme Court rejects plea from British woman on death row

Posted on July 01, 2010
By RENÉE C. LEEHOUSTON CHRONICLEMay 3, 2010, 9:38AMThe Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a British woman sentenced to death for killing a Houston mother and stealing her baby in 2001.The justices rejected an appeal from Linda Carty, who complained her trial lawyers were deficient...

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Doctors' board bans work on death row

Posted on July 01, 2010
ROB STEINMay 3, 2010WASHINGTON: An American doctors organisation has quietly decided to revoke the certification of any member who participates in executing a prisoner by lethal injection.The mandate from the American Board of Anesthesiologists reflects its leaders' belief that ''we are healers, not executioners'', the board secretary, Mark Rockoff, said...

Government's rendition bully tactics

Posted on July 01, 2010
By Clive Stafford Smith on April 29, 2010Six years ago the British took two men into custody in Iraq. Working with the Americans, the UK then rendered the men to Afghanistan where they have been held ever since in secret detention, beyond the protection of law...

Doctors' role in executions debated

Posted on July 01, 2010
Doctors' role in executions debatedDeath penalty foes go after licenses.By CARLOS CAMPOSThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 02/01/05After a lethal dose of chemicals flowed through the veins of convicted killer Timothy Don Carr last Tuesday night, two physicians with stethoscopes around their necks quietly entered the execution chamber...

Senate Resolution 1289

Posted on July 01, 2010
Just when you think the GA legislature can't get anymore outrageous they do things like recognizing Carlo Musso, the execution doctor! The resolution was sponsored by dems Gail Buckner and Valencia Seay Please feel free to get in touch with them and tell them how you feel; these are their contacts...

Calif. Case Spotlights Dysfunctional Death Penalty

Posted on July 01, 2010
Calif. killer's life sentence highlights death penalty flaws; state has 700 stuck on death rowBy PAUL ELIASThe Associated PressSAN FRANCISCOChelsea King's parents reluctantly agreed to a sentence of life in prison for their daughter's rapist and killer, calling the death penalty in California "an empty promise...

US judge refuses to protect Guantanamo prisoner Ahmed Belbacha from forced return to Algeria

Posted on July 01, 2010
April 20, 2010A federal district court in Washington has today rejected the pleas of former British resident Ahmed Belbacha, refusing to block his forced return to persecution and torture in Algeria.Ahmed?s attorney Tara Murray of Reprieve, said: ?Ahmed?s desperate plight, together with his gentle nature, have attracted many private offers of help from both sides of the Atlantic...

Mother urges UK Government to confirm rendition of her son six years ago

Posted on July 01, 2010
April 15, 2010Deborah Haynes, Defence CorrespondentThe mother of a Pakistani man who disappeared six years ago urged the British Government today to confirm whether he is one of two suspects arrested by British Special Forces in Iraq, handed over to the US military and secretly flown to a notorious detention centre in Afghanistan in 2004...

After years as justice, John Paul Stevens wants what's 'best for the court'

Posted on July 01, 2010
By Robert BarnesWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, April 4, 2010; A01FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. -- Around here, one of the most powerful men in the nation is known as plain old John Stevens -- courteous bridge player, early-morning regular at the country club's tennis courts, a quiet but active condo neighbor who checks his weight in the gym before heading off for his daily swim...

AFTER STEVENS

Posted on July 01, 2010
What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader?by Jeffrey ToobinMARCH 22, 2010Supreme Court Justices are remembered for their opinions, but they are revealed by their questions. For many years, Sandra Day O?Connor chose to open the questioning in most cases, and thus show the lawyers?and her colleagues?which way she, as the Court?s swing vote, was leaning...

Engaging Europe in the US death penalty fight: Can we help on your capital case?

Posted on July 01, 2010
Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help?In September 2009 Reprieve launched a three-year project funded by the European Commission ? theEC Project. The Project works alongside capital defense lawyers to meet their obligations under the ABA Guidelines, to: ?make appropriate efforts to determine whether any foreign country might consider the client to be one of its nationals (10...

Undue process

Posted on June 29, 2010
February 27, 2010The US Supreme Court must order a retrial for the Briton who stands on death rowFriends must sometimes agree to disagree. Britain forbids capital punishment; the United States supports it. But above all, good friends must honour their word...

Debate Brewing Over Supreme Court Change To Miranda Rights

Posted on June 29, 2010
Originally printed at http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/85444037.htmlSOUTH BEND ? A drastic change to a well known U.S. law could give police across America a new tool in the fight against crime. A 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision revises a 30-year-old ruling on what's known as "Miranda Rights...

The Time Has Come to Say No to Death

Posted on June 29, 2010
February 26, 2010The following was delivered at the fourth Congress Against the Death Penalty, in Geneva, on 24th February, 2010by Bianca JaggerIt is an honour and a privilege to be addressing you here today, at the fourth Congress Against the Death Penalty...

Johnston set for March 9 execution in Fla.

Posted on June 29, 2010
2/19/10Gov. Charlie Crist set a new execution date of March 9 for David Johnston, who was convicted of killing an elderly woman in 1983.TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Charlie Crist set a new execution date of March 9 for David Johnston, who was convicted of killing an elderly woman in 1983...

Iraq's European allies call for halt to death penalty

Posted on June 29, 2010
(AFP) ? Feb 16, 2010GENEVA ? Britain, France and Italy on Tuesday called on Iraq to halt use of the death penalty, expressing concern at a growth in the number of executions in the past two years.However, Iraq told the UN Human Rights Council that it had not been in a position to abolish capital punishment "because of the severity and intensity of terrorist crimes" and their huge civilian toll...

Ohio on pace for execution state record

Posted on June 29, 2010
February 8, 2010LUCASVILLE, Ohio | After a relative lull in the number of executions Ohio carries out annually, it appears poised to sharply increase lethal injections in the months to come, possibly setting a state record for the most in a year.The state executed condemned killer Mark Brown on Thursday, the third execution in as many months and one of nine scheduled for this year...

Court Sends Back Abu-Jamal Death Penalty Case

Posted on June 28, 2010
January 19, 2010The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a court ruling that invalidated a former Black Panther's death sentence for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, one of two rulings it issued that reversed actions by lower courts.The first move was the latest twist in Mumia Abu-Jamal's racially tinged case that has drawn international attention...

Filings reveal details about Ohio executioners

Posted on June 28, 2010
By The Associated PressA pair of court filings Friday challenging Ohio's execution process provided additional details about the state's executioners, whose names are not released by the state. The team members gave anonymous court depositions in October that are sealed and not available for public review...

Death penalty loses legitimacy as top lawyers distance themselves

Posted on June 28, 2010
BY EDITORIAL BOARD EBoard@post-dispatch.com | Posted: Thursday, January 7th, 2010 9:03 pmLawyers think no problem has been invented that they can?t puzzle through, solve or argue their way out of.So, there?s reason to pause when they throw up their hands and walk away from a fight...

TN court could settle limbo concerning executed man's autopsy

Posted on June 28, 2010
By Clay Carey, The TennesseanCecil Johnson Jr. did not want coroners examining his body after he was executed Dec. 2. Because of his religious beliefs, the death row inmate said he did not want an autopsy - just an immediate funeral and burial at a cemetery in Las Vegas...

Coalition calls for execution moratorium

Posted on June 28, 2010
By BRENNAN DAVIDWednesday, January 6, 2010A local grass-roots organization wants Columbia residents to know its call for a death penalty study and moratorium will continue this session of the Missouri General Assembly.Missourians for an Alternative to the Death Penalty rolled out its campaign today at the start of the 2010 legislative session with a news conference at First Baptist Church, 1112 E...

China has made a mockery of justice

Posted on June 28, 2010
The case made by China in the execution of Akmal Shaikh undermines its claim to have a rational drugs policyClive Stafford Smithguardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 December 2009 11.00 GMTIn the wake of Akmal Shaikh's horrific execution, it is perhaps worth discussing theposition taken by the Chinese in more depth...

Executioner Unaware

Posted on June 19, 2010
In light of the pending execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, set for June 18 by firing squad in the state of Utah, CNN posted an article this morning recounting an interview with a former member of a Utah firing squad. The individual, who spoke under condition of anonymity, discussed what it was like to be a member of the five-man team that carried out the state?s order to end a life...

Bill to allow drug flexibility for executions sent to Henry Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?s

Posted on June 19, 2010
by: BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol BureauWednesday, June 02, 20106/2/2010 4:28:40 AMOKLAHOMA CITY ? A bill sent to Gov. Brad Henry's desk would give the Oklahoma Department of Corrections more flexibility in carrying out executions.House Bill 2266 also would put restrictions on whom the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System could represent...

Melbert Ray Ford executed

Posted on June 12, 2010
By Amber PittmanCrime/Education Reporterapittman@covnews.com678-750-5000POSTED June 9, 2010 9:14 p.m.No apology offered to the victims' familiesMelbert Ray Ford Jr. took his last breath on June 9 at 7:27 p.m., more than 24 years after the last breaths of those he murdered...

Death Chambers: No Anesthesiologists Allowed

Posted on May 27, 2010
by Turi McNameeMay 23, 2010It?s a somewhat unusual experience when a regulatory body feels the need to make a public statement saying that doctors should not kill people.But that?s exactly what the American Board of Anesthesiology has done, stating that anesthesiologists are not to participate in capital punishment if they wish to be certified...

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