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
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
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
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
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.
