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Discussion on LI - physician participation ONLINE NOW

Posted on February 02, 2008
Discussion on LI - physician participation ONLINE NOWGo here :http://www.nejm.org/Perspective-Roundtable/Lethal-Injection/video.htmlhttp://www.nejm.org/Perspective-Roundtable/Lethal-Injection/

Legislation in Alabama

Posted on January 31, 2008
From Standdown blog :Legislation in Alabama AL.com carries the AP dispatch, "Alabama senator to try death penalty moratorium for 8th time." The legislator is Senator Hank Sanders.The Selma Democrat announced Tuesday that when the Legislature convenes Feb...

New test on lethal injection

Posted on January 31, 2008
From SCOTUS blog :New test on lethal injection http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/new-test-on-lethal-injection/Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 3:55 pm | Lyle Denniston | Comments (0) | Print This Post Email this ? Share on Facebook ? Digg This! Email this ? Share on Facebook ? Digg This! Three weeks after the Supreme Court held a hearing on constitutional issues surrounding the lethal injection method of execution for murder, the Justices are expected to be asked later Wednesday whether to keep intact an informal but functional bar to such executions until a ruling is issued in the test case...

The stay application to USSC in Callahan

Posted on January 31, 2008
CAPITAL CASEEXECUTION DATEIN THESUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATESJAMES CALLAHAN,Petitioner,RICHARD ALLEN, et al.,Respondents.CAPITAL CASEEXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 31,2008 AT 6PM CSTAPPLICATION FOR STAY OF EXECUTIONVincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr.Counsel of Record for James CallahanHeather K...

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USSC docket for the stay application in Callahan

Posted on January 31, 2008
No. 07A630 Title: James Callahan, Applicant http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/07a630.htm v. Richard F. Allen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Docketed: Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Case Nos...

The 11 circuit order lifts stay for Callahan in Alabama

Posted on January 30, 2008
FILED U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Jan. 29, 2008 THOMAS K. KAHN CLERK [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 08-10100 ________________________ D. C. Docket Nos.06-00695-CV-N & 06-00919-CV-N WILLIE MCNAIR, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant, JAMES CALLAHAN, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant- Appellee, versus RICHARD ALLEN, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, individually and in his official capacity, GRANTT CULLIVER, Warden, Holman Correctional Facility, in his individual and official capacity, Defendants-Counter-Claimants- Appellants...

The stay order on Callahan, Alabama December 14,2007

Posted on January 30, 2008
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION WILLIE MCNAIR, ) ) Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2:06-cv-695-WKW ) RICHARD ALLEN, et al., )) Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs. ) ___________________________________ ) JAMES CALLAHAN, )) Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant, ) ) v...

Stay of Execution Lifted, Callahan Scheduled to Die Thursday

Posted on January 30, 2008
Stay of Execution Lifted, Callahan Scheduled to Die Thursday http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=7796908MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A federal appeals court has lifted a stay of execution for James Harvey Callahan, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday, but it could be delayed again by the U...

The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science

Posted on January 25, 2008
The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science The Fordham Urban Law Review is sponsoring the above-titled symposium March 7 and 8 at Fordham Law School in New York City. LINKThe symposium will address a broad range of issues concerning lethal injection...

Give Them Death: 3 Leading Democratic Candidates Support Capital

Posted on January 25, 2008
Jan. 25USA:Give Them Death: 3 Leading Democratic Candidates Support CapitalPunishmentOpposing the death penalty used to distinguish Democrats from Republicans.Now, across party lines, death is just another day at the office.When Clinton, Obama and Edwards took the stage before a mostlyAfrican-American crowd in Myrtle Beach, S...

Physicians and Execution

Posted on January 25, 2008
Physicians and ExecutionBy Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.Jan 25, 2008, 10:54http://axisoflogic.com:80/artman/publish/article_25922.shtml Volume 358:403-404 January 24, 2008 Number 4Physicians and Execution Gregory D...

Flashback: Bill Clinton?s 1992 execution gambit

Posted on January 25, 2008
Flashback: Bill Clinton?s 1992 execution gambit On this date in 1992 Ricky Ray Rector was executed. Rector was severely mentally handicapped due to an attempted suicide that left him effectively lobotomized. When Rector?s execution day approached, he was given the standard last meal...

Death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab denied hearing

Posted on January 24, 2008
The Florida Supreme Court this morning ruled in favor of a lower court's decision.Sarah LundySentinel Staff Writer1:59 PM EST, January 24, 2008The Florida Supreme Court this morning ruled in favor of a lower court's decision to deny death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab an evidentiary hearing to present what his attorneys called new evidence...

More on the Nebraska Abolition Bill

Posted on January 23, 2008
More on the Nebraska Abolition Bill The Omaha World-Herald has, "Death penalty repeal returns."State Sen. Ernie Chambers is hoping to take Nebraska's death penalty with him when he leaves the Legislature next January. Chambers, who has spent more than three decades trying to pull the plug on the state's electric chair, tried again Tuesday ? introducing a bill to repeal capital punishment and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole...

In Nebraska

Posted on January 23, 2008
In Nebraska The Beatrice Daily Sun reports, "Death penalty bill signals Chambers' last chance at repeal." Ernie Chambers has introduced his bill to repeal the death penalty, a battle he's promised to make the priority of his last session as a state senator...

And in Connecticut

Posted on January 23, 2008
And in Connecticut The Stamford Advocate has, "Lawmaker tries to abolish death penalty," reported by Brian Lockhart.The General Assembly's lengthy debate on criminal justice reforms was expected to be stretched a little longer last night by one lawmaker's crusade to abolish the death penalty...

Bredesen: 1-drug injection is no quick fix, would delay executions

Posted on January 23, 2008
Bredesen: 1-drug injection is no quick fix, would delay executions Years of litigation would be result, governor estimates By GREG GIUFFRIDA ? Associated Press ? January 21, 2008 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } Gov...

Colin gets serious

Posted on January 21, 2008
Colin gets serious We may have last seen him running around with a tarted-up Rupert Everett in St Trinian's, but Colin Firth is getting serious for his latest project - a documentary about American prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for 25 years for murder...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on January 21, 2008
"For through violence, you may murder a murderer, but you can't murdermurder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establishtruth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murderhate. Darkness cannot put out darkness, only light can do that...

Lawyers targeting Missouri executioners

Posted on January 20, 2008
Lawyers targeting Missouri executioners Posted : Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:37:17 GMT Author : General News Editor Category : US (World) News Alerts by Email click here ) Create your own RSS US World News | Home ST...

Kenny Richey is proof that the death penalty doesn't need to be carried out to destroy a life

Posted on January 20, 2008
Kenny Richey is proof that the death penalty doesn't need to be carried out to destroy a lifehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2242905,00.htmlThe Scot has considered suicide more often in the past week than during his time in jailAlexander ChancellorFriday January 18, 2008The Guardian Kenny Richey, the 43-year-old Scotsman who returned home 10 days ago after 21 years on death row in the US, says he has never been more miserable than since he was let out...

PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty

Posted on January 20, 2008
PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty 19 January 2008 - Issue : 765 Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Rene Van der Linden in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2008ANA/EPA/ALEXANDER NATRUSKIN/POOL PACE president calls for ban on the death penalty President of the Parliamentary Assembly Rene van der Linde visited Moscow...

Lake hospital's letters deal crucial blow to credibility of execution doctor

Posted on January 20, 2008
Lake hospital's letters deal crucial blow to credibility of execution doctor By Jeremy Kohler/St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.lakeexpo.com/articles/2008/01/20/top_news/02.txt Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:13 AM CST Missouri officials fought to keep the moment from happening...

Less money, more pain and injustice

Posted on January 20, 2008
Less money, more pain and injustice By JAMES ABBOTTSpecial to the Star-Telegram Last month, New Jersey's legislature and governor replaced the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole...

Author of 'Dead Man Walking' to share 'good Southern storytelling' about her experiences

Posted on January 20, 2008
Stirring up death penalty talk in Eureka Author of 'Dead Man Walking' to share 'good Southern storytelling' about her experiences Sunday, January 20, 2008 By DAVE HANEY OF THE JOURNAL STAR EUREKA - A Louisiana man convicted and sentenced to death for raping and murdering an 18-year-old girl and murdering her 16-year-old boyfriend in 1977...

Romney, Clintons, and the Death Penalty

Posted on January 20, 2008
Romney, Clintons, and the Death PenaltyRomney and I were in the same section as 1Ls at Harvard Law School. Backin those dayshe went by Will. Back in those days he was a lot like his Father, whichwas not that bad. With his JD/MBA he went to work for Boston ConsultingGroup--where the Big Bucks are...

Family members want more contact with inmates

Posted on January 20, 2008
Protest on death rowFamily members want more contact with inmatesBy Christopher Bobby, The Warren Tribune ChronicleJanuary 20, 2008http://tinyurl.com/2ztg7bYOUNGSTOWN ? Family members of Ohio death row inmates ? wanting morepersonal contact with their loved ones inside the prison walls ?turned over a pile of letters penned by the convicted killers toprison officials at the Ohio State Penitentiary on Saturday...

YOUR VIEW: Let's kill capital punishment

Posted on January 19, 2008
YOUR VIEW: Let's kill capital punishmentBy RAIMUNDO DELGADO Mr. Delgado lives in New Bedford. January 16, 2008 6:00 AM Americans should be terribly troubled that the U.S. Supreme Court is divided about whether a lethal injection used in 36 states causes excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution to those condemned to die by lethal injection...

Juvenile justice chief to lead state Corrections Department

Posted on January 19, 2008
Juvenile justice chief to lead state Corrections Department Gov. Charlie Crist chose the state's juvenile justice chief, Walt McNeil, as the new state Corrections Department leader. Posted on Wed, Jan. 16, 2008 BY MARC CAPUTO mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com function PopupPic(sPicURLx, sHeight, sWidth) { var sPicURL = "/news/florida/v-morephotos/story/380948...

Inmates seek IDs of executioners

Posted on January 19, 2008
http://newsletters.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/385C50066211914D862573D5001C77A6?OpenDocument Inmates seek IDs of executioners By Jeremy Kohler ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 01/20/2008 Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressingMissouri to provide the names of members ofits execution team after a Post-Dispatchinvestigation revealed that one was a convictedstalker...

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