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Doctor's Help Sought in Failed Ohio Execution Try

Posted on November 25, 2009
That's the title of an AP report by JoAnne Viviano, via Google News. LINK As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor ? a move...

The Keeper and the Kept

Posted on November 24, 2009
That's the title of a new report from the W. Haywood Burns Institute that will be issued Tuesday. Shadi Rahimi writes, "National Leader in Juvenile Justice Poised to Release New Report." For the families of the more than 90,000 youth...

More Juvenile Sentencing Reform Commentary

Posted on November 24, 2009
Alexandra Cox posts, "Why Brain Science Is Bad for Juvenile Justice," at Huffington Post. Cox is a research consultant for the Brooklyn-based Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives. The Supreme Court will decide next year about whether they will...

Case Law Now on Google Scholar

Posted on November 24, 2009
Thanks to TechnoLawyer's Blawgworld, I've read Dan Friedlander's Law On My Phone post, "Google Enters Into The Realm Of Legal Research And Adds Legal Opinions To Google Scholar." Here's a snippet from the beginning: Is this the beginning of the...

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ABA Assessment For Kentucky's Capital Punishment System

Posted on November 24, 2009
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports, "Beshear asked to halt executions for study of Kentucky?s death-penalty system," by R.G. Dunlop. Gov. Steve Beshear has been asked to halt all executions until a 10-member team of state lawyers and former judges recently appointed...

Clemency in Ohio

Posted on November 24, 2009
"Governor grants clemency to 78, none on death row," is Julie Carr Smyth's AP report via the Akron Beacon Journal. Ted Strickland on Monday granted clemency to 78 inmates, none on death row, after a painstaking review of three years...

Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice

Posted on November 24, 2009
That's the title of Adam Liptak's report in today's New York Times. LINK In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and...

Review of Louisiana's Post-Conviction Process

Posted on November 23, 2009
"Kimball: Justice must be efficient but fair," is one of two articles written by Alison Bath for the Shreveport Times. Both appeared in Sunday's edition. In September, Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Catherine D. Kimball announced the formation of a...

The Latest Lethal Injection News From Ohio

Posted on November 23, 2009
"New lethal injection policies put Ohio at center of legal and ethical debate over executions," in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer is written by Aaron Marshall. Death row inmates and advocates on both sides of the capital punishment debate across the....

More on the Forensic Science Commission

Posted on November 23, 2009
Dave Montgomery reports, "New forensic commission e-mail policy goes in 'wrong direction,' lawmaker says." The article appeared in the Saturday edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Members of a state commission examining the case of Cameron Todd Willingham have been...

Highlighting the Atkins Scholarship

Posted on November 23, 2009
In the preceding post, Adam Liptak noted scholarship by John Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, and Christopher Seeds,"An Empirical Look at Atkins vs. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases." Here's the abstract: In Atkins vs. Virginia, the Supreme Court declared...

Continued Coverage of Juvenile Sentencing Reform

Posted on November 23, 2009
Adam Liptak's latest Sidebar column is, "Standards for Juvenile Punishment." It's available at the New York Times website and is scheduled for tomorrow's print edition. An extended excerpt: The law is made up of rules and standards. Here is an...

Crime and Punsihment: 1 Dies, 1 Lives

Posted on November 23, 2009
That the title of an Austin American-Statesman editorial. It appeared in the Saturday edition. LINK Two criminals, both with guns fired at the scene. Two shooting victims. One dies, one does not. Two trials, both for capital murder because of...

The Pen Pal Business

Posted on November 20, 2009
"Death-Row Pen Pals," is the title of Deidre Depke's Daily Beast report. A Texas inmate, executed Wednesday, sought companionship via the Internet before his death. Inside the death-row pen-pal business?and how felons bid for friends. On Wednesday, Danielle Simpson, 30,...

Another Call for Juvenile Sentencing Reform

Posted on November 20, 2009
Toaday's Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania carries the editorial, "Chance for change: Life sentence removes hope for juvenile reform." The question before the U.S. Supreme Court is: Do we believe juveniles sentenced to life in prison can reform? Last week, the...

The Case of Cory Maye in Mississippi

Posted on November 20, 2009
"Why you should care about Cory Maye and Cameron Todd Willingham," is the title of Matt Zeitlin's column in North by Northwestern. It?s hard to imagine a more depressing story than that of Cory Maye. In September, 2001, when he...

Wednesday

Posted on September 30, 2009
I'll be traveling much of the day Wednesday. I hope you'll take the opportunity to visit blogs and blawgs in the left column webroll.

The Case of the Plummeting Supreme Court Docket

Posted on September 29, 2009
That's the title of Adam Liptak's latest Sidebar column in today's New York Times. LINK In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided more than 150 cases a year. These days, it decides about half that many. A couple of...

The Future of Lethal Injection in Ohio

Posted on September 29, 2009
"Ohio Death Row Inmate Asks for a Delay," is the title of Bob Driehaus' report in today's New York Times. This month?s failed attempt to execute a man convicted of murder and rape in Ohio has prompted another death row...

Nebraska Proposes Lethal Injection Protocol; Public Hearing Set

Posted on September 29, 2009
"3-drug combo is execution cocktail," is the title of Martha Stoddard's report in today's Omaha World-Herald. Nebraska corrections officials propose to execute condemned prisoners with a three-drug combination. The drugs would be the same used in all other states that...

More From Florida

Posted on September 28, 2009
"Execution reforms gain new traction," is the title of the Gainesville Sun report by Suevon Lee. No matter one's view on the death penalty, it needs serious reform in Florida. So say a number of lawyers, academics and judges pressing...

Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons

Posted on September 28, 2009
That's the title of a post at Wired.com from the current issue of the magazine. LINK From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime?but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea:...

Proportionality Review Among Petitions to Watch

Posted on September 28, 2009
Last week, SCOTUS Blog recognized Holmes v. Louisiana as a cert petition to watch. Docket: 08-1358 Title: Holmes v. Louisiana Issue: Whether the operation of Louisiana?s capital punishment scheme and the State Supreme Court?s proportionality review violate the Eighth Amendment?s...

Supreme Court to Consider Juvenile 'Lifers'

Posted on September 28, 2009
That's the title of David Savage's report in today's Los Angeles Times previewing two cases that will be heard by the Court on November 9. It's subtitled, "Does life without parole for minors who didn't kill constitute cruel and unusual...

More From New Mexico

Posted on September 28, 2009
Dave Maass has posted, "Former New Mexico Governor, Toney Anaya, Talks Death Penalty Politics," at Huffington Post. New Mexico repealed the death penalty during the 2009 Legislative session, but since the lawmaking body is prohibited from enacting retroactive laws the...

High Cost of Death Row

Posted on September 28, 2009
That's the title of an editorial in today's New York Times. LINK To the many excellent reasons to abolish the death penalty ? it?s immoral, does not deter murder and affects minorities disproportionately ? we can add one more. It?s...

Texas Forensic Science Commission to Meet Friday

Posted on September 28, 2009
"Texas panel reviews ruling that led to execution," is Michael Graczyk's AP report via Google News. More than five years after his final act from the Texas death chamber gurney was a profanity-filled tirade, the murder case of executed inmate...

Perry's Certainty About Execution Ignores Science

Posted on September 28, 2009
That the title of a Dallas Morning News editorial. It appeared in the Saturday edition. LINK When a nationally respected fire engineer rebuked an arson investigation that sent a Texas man to his death, the country took notice. The question...

More Broom Commentary

Posted on September 25, 2009
"Death Row: The Cruel and Unusual Wait," is the title of Richard Elkind's essay for the OpEd column Barely Legal in the Cornell Daily Sun. On Tuesday, Sep. 15, the state of Ohio was set to execute Rommell Broom, a...

Enough of the Death Penalty

Posted on September 25, 2009
That's the title of an editorial in today's Hartford Courant in Connecticut. The subtitle is, "EXECUTION MISTAKES ? Cases in Ohio, Texas show why capital punishment should end." The sickening spectacle of technicians laboring for two hours, without success, to...

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