Dec. 31
USA (NEW YORK):
Rare NYS death penalty case may reach Brooklyn in 2013
The year 2013 will bring a number of new beginnings to Brooklyn. In Brooklyn
Bridge Park, Pier 2 will open with courts for bocce, handball, and basketball.
The Prospect Park Lakeside Project, to open in fall
Sept. 17
USA:
Abolish the death penalty
You're kidding me. We don't execute people on the Sabbath. Well that's about
the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. - Leo McGarry, The West Wing
(1999-2006).
1 year ago this Friday, a man named Troy Davis was executed in Georgia. I was
on
June 29
USA:
40 years after Furman, the U.S. Death Penalty Is In Disarray
June 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Furman v.
Georgia. In Furman, the high court abolished the death penalty on the grounds
that it violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition on
May 25
USA:
Despite its popularity, the death penalty would allow the state to kill
innocent people
The University of Michigan law school and Northwestern University have just
compiled a database of over 2,000 United States prisoners exonerated between
1999 and the present day. One
Jan. 21
USA:
Jan. 17 anti death penalty action at US Supremre Court:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inGmr3hjv_olist=HL1327118387feature=mh_lolz
PENNSYLVANIA:
Death penalty still being weighed in double slaying
Westmoreland County's top prosecutor is still considering if he
April 25
USA:
Death penalty debate depends on purpose of punishment
To the Editor:
[Last] week's opinion articles about the death penalty [Checks and
Balances] did not touch on the real debate over capital punishment. The
real debate that faces America is about our justice system as a
April 6
USA:
Execution by lethal injection under renewed scrutiny
Most US states that permit lethal-injection executions prevent
veterinarians from using the same method to put animals down, according to
a new study.
One of the 3 drugs injected into condemned prisoners, the one that
April 24
USA:
Bad Drugs: Lethal Injection Does Not Work as Designed
A new study shows that failure to inject proper dosages potentially leads
to slow, painful deaths from chemical asphyxiation
Lethal injection was invented in 1977 by Oklahoma state medical examiner
Jay Chapman, who,
Feb. 28
USA:
Benefit of death penalty overlooked
Steven Asin provides a few reasons to abolish the death penalty and there
is good faith debate on both sides of this argument (Death penalty repeal
is sound policy, Feb. 21 letter).
However, Mr. Asin overlooks one critical benefit to the
Dec. 3
USAbook review
Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Author: David R. Dow-ISBN: 0807044199-Pages: 272
The story of the death row inmates who changed one Texas lawyer's mind
about capital punishment
When David Dow took his first capital
Sept. 24
USA:
States have executed 11 women since '84
38 states and the U.S. government have the death penalty. No woman has
been executed by th federal government in almost 53 years, but state
executions have become more common, especially in the South.
11 women have been put to death
May 4
USA:
U.S. juries less likely to impose death - activists
The outcome of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial shows that U.S. juries are
less willing to impose capital punishment than in the past, anti-death
penalty activists said on Wednesday.
They said the number of death penalties imposed
Jan. 10
USA:
Supreme Court Backs Disabled Ga. Inmate
States can sometimes be sued for damages by disabled inmates, the Supreme
Court ruled Tuesday in resolving the 1st clash over states' rights under
Chief Justice John Roberts.
The court said Georgia inmate Tony Goodman could use a
April 19
USA:
Lethal injection faces fight from condemned
A Kentucky case that begins today is the latest legal challenge to lethal
injection, the nation's most used but increasingly controversial form of
execution.
Lethal injection is under assault from condemned convicts across the
Oct. 15
USA:
Executing juvenile offenders is barbaric, ought to be ended
Christopher Simmons committed a horrible crime when he was 17. Simmons and
an accomplice broke into a woman's home, robbed her, tied her and threw
her into the Meramec River.
He should be punished by spending the
Nov. 17
USA:
A Matter of Death
The horrific life of Joe Elton Nixon, briefly referenced last week during
a narrow procedural hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, is at the heart
of a capital murder case that Eric M. Freedman predicts will be studied in
law schools for years to come.
Dec. 2
USA:
Friends--
Is anyone aware if there is/are any inmate(s) currently on death row in
the USA who is/are deaf? Is anyone aware if any inmate executed since
1977 was deaf?
If you have any information, please contact me offline..thanks!!
Rick Halperin
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