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Article • May 15, 2025 • from CLN June, 2025
Filed under: Costs, Death Penalty
The Crushing Toll of Ohio’s Death Penalty: A Billion-Dollar Failure by David Kim by David Kim Ohio’s death penalty system, which has consumed over a billion dollars, delivers neither justice nor closure, according to a damning report by Ohioans to Stop Executions. The system—marked by exorbitant costs, prolonged delays, and …
Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Filed under: Death Penalty
Younger Generations Lead Decline in U.S. Support for Death Penalty by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Support for the death penalty among Americans has fallen to 53%, its lowest level since 1972, driven primarily by younger generations who are far less likely to favor capital punishment for convicted murderers, …
Brief • December 21, 2023
State of Ohio v Moore, OH, Motion of Amici Curiae, Death Penalty, 2023 IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO STATE OF OHIO, Plaintiff, v. Case No. B-9400481 Judge: Patrick T. Dinkelacker Death Penalty Case LEE MOORE, Defendant. MOTION OF AMICI CURIAE NATHANIEL R. JONES CENTER FOR RACE, …
The Daniel Buffington Dilemma: Does His Expert Witness Testimony Satisfy Daubert? by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Twenty-seven states in the U.S. have the death penalty. Those states and the federal government carry out the sentence by injecting a lethal mix of one, two, or three drugs as …
Article • May 15, 2023 • from CLN June, 2023
Fourth Circuit Reinstates Relief From Death Penalty, Citing State’s Forfeiture of Argument Against Relief by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Refusing to uphold an unconstitutional death sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held on March 22, 2023, that the State’s forfeiture of a procedural defense in …
Article • March 15, 2023 • from CLN April, 2023
SCOTUS: Arizona Supreme Court’s Interpretation of State Procedural Rule so ‘Novel and Unforeseeable’ It’s Not ‘Adequate’ to Preclude SCOTUS Review of Federal Death-Penalty Claim by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In a 5-4 decision written by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Arizona Supreme …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Prosecutorial Misconduct Cause of More Than 550 Death Penalty Reversals and Exonerations by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett A study by the Death Penalty Information Center (“DPIC”) found more than 550 death penalty reversals and exonerations were the result of extensive prosecutorial misconduct. DPIC reviewed and identified cases since the …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Use of Death Penalty Continues to Decline in the U.S. by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In 2021, 11 people in the U.S. were killed as punishment for their crimes. This was the fewest number of Americans in recent history to be subjected to state-sanctioned killing. And it was the …
Article • June 21, 2022
Oklahoma Planning Executions for 25 Men, Including Plausibly Innocent Richard Glossip by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In the first week of June 2022, a federal judge decided that a three-drug cocktail including the sedative midazolam is a constitutional method of execution. Pursuant to that decision, Oklahoma Attorney …
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Nevada Supreme Court: Prisoner’s Claim He Is Now Actually Innocent of Death Penalty Sufficient to Overcome Proce-dural Bars to Habeas Relief by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Nevada held that Samuel Howard’s claim that he is now actually innocent of the death penalty was sufficient to …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Third Circuit Rules Pennsylvania Courts’ Application of Federal Law Objectively Unreasonable, Overturns Conviction and Death Sentence, Grants Habeas Relief by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the grant of habeas corpus relief to a death-sentenced defendant based on the fact the …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
California Supreme Court Announces Not All Subsequent Habeas Petitions Under Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act Are ‘Successive’ by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell   A subsequent petition for habeas corpus relief filed in a California court is not always a “successive” petition, under the death penalty reform law passed …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
When Life Is No Better Than Death by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Capital punishment has been a part of the American experience from the earliest times. Virginia executed a colonist in the seventeenth century, and since then, nearly every method of execution, from hanging to lethal injection, has found …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
SCOTUS Reinstates Death Sentence Reversed by Eleventh Circuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of the United States reinstated the death sentence of an Alabama man who had been convicted of murder. The Eleventh Circuit had reversed, in part, the conviction based on the incorrect claim that …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
SCOTUS Reinstates Death Sentence Reversed by Eleventh Circuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of the U.S. reinstated the death sentence of an Alabama man who had been convicted of murder. The Eleventh Circuit had reversed, in part, the conviction based on the incorrect claim that Alabama …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Filed under: Death Penalty
Atavistic South Carolinians Offer Option of Firing Squad to Condemned Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Brad Sigmon, 63, was scheduled to be killed on June 18, 2021, at the hands of the people of South Carolina in their perverse and bizarre notion of justice. But on June 16, …
Publication • 2021
Columbia University, New York State's New Death Penalty, 2021 OCTOBER 2021 New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post Execution Era (j;] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Cl IlR IO Ill I U About the Center for Justice at Columbia The Center for Justice is committed …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Machinery of Death: When the Government Acts as Judge, Jury and Executioner by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute – Commentary “Police fail to grasp that they are public servants for peace. They should provide a civil service, to enforce the laws equally, …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Vacatur of Death Sentence Based on Newly Discovered Evidence of Defendant’s Intellectual Disability by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s vacatur of Bruce Carneil Webster’s death sentence based …
Article • January 15, 2021 • from CLN February, 2021
First Circuit: Double Jeopardy Protections Bar Government From Seeking Death Penalty at Retrial Where Jury’s Verdict Not Imposing Death at First Trial Ambiguous, and Trial Court Prematurely Declared Mistrial by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the Government is barred …
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