August 11
NEW YORK:
William Kemmler Became the 1st Person Executed by Electric Chair 129 Years Ago
The 1st electric chair execution happened 129 years ago on August 6, 1890, with
the death of William Kemmler, who was convicted of murdering his wife.
Because the execution was the
April 2
NEW YORK:
Death row survivor to keynote Bona’s 159th CommencementDick Kearns, Fr. Joe
Nangle will also be honored May 19
Anthony Ray Hinton will deliver the keynote address May 19 at St. Bonaventure
University’s 159th Commencement ceremony, almost 4 years after he left
Sept. 26
NEW YORK:
Albert Tomei, Judge Who Made Key Death Penalty Ruling, Dies at 77
Albert Tomei, a retired state Supreme Court justice who sat in Brooklyn and
spent more than 30 years on the bench, died Sept. 22. He was 77.
Tomei presided over New York City's 1st death penalty
May 1
NEW YORK:
Massive UAlbany death penalty archive goes digitalDocuments 15,000+
government-sanctioned executions dating to 1608
During his life, M. Watt Espy searched libraries and courthouses across the
country gradually building what is widely considered the most
March 1
NEW YORK:
He Killed 140 Men in the Electric Chair. Then He Took His Own Life.The man who
operated New York State's "Old Sparky" was calm, collected and always
professional. No one knew that every flick of the switch was tearing him apart.
It's 11 p.m. on Thursday, September
Oct. 27
NEW YORK:
Experts Debate the Death Penalty
Experts from the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide addressed the
death penalty as an ethically controversial issue and predicted that it will
gradually fall out of use going forward.
On Tuesday, the center brought a
Oct. 26
NEW YORK:
Cornell Launches Center to Help Defeat Death Penalty Worldwide
A new center at Cornell Law School aims to help eliminate the death penalty
across the globe through research and lawyer training.
The school on Tuesday announced the launch of the Center on the Death
April 23
NEW YORK:
The death penalty is a necessary punishment
EDITOR: Recently in today's society there has been an increase in crime. The
criminals who participate in these horrible acts have been getting a sentence
that doesn't fit the crime that they committed. Sentences that are
April 21
NEW YORK:
Professor Lectures on Consequences of Death Penalty
Prof. John Blume, law, argued that the United States should abolish the death
penalty because of its racial bias and global ineffectiveness at a debate on
Tuesday.
Blume - who said he has spent the past 30
April 13
NEW YORK:
Gangster Executed for Assassination Ordered by Dirty Cop
Harry 'Gyp the Blood' Horowitz was infamous for his penchant for violence;
asked why he threw bombs into people's windows, he would say: 'Because I like
the noise dey make.'
On April 13, 1915, Harry
Dec. 3
NEW YORK:
Attorneys talk race, justice at SBU
2 area attorneys Wednesday afternoon at St. Bonaventure University blasted a
justice system they claim is rife with inequity for minorities.
Cattaraugus County Public Defender Mark Williams, who is white, cited racism
inherent in
Oct. 28
NEW YORK:
Former death row inmate recalls failed justice and redemption Anthony Ray
Hinton, who was freed in April after serving 30 years on Alabama's death row,
recounts Monday at St. Bonaventure University his incarceration for 2 murders
courts later determined he didn't
Jan. 27
NEW YORK:
Death Penalty Project Gives Real-World Experience to Undergraduates
The Cornell Death Penalty Project runs clinical programs at Cornell Law School
in which students assist with the representation of capital defendants. The
project is run by three professors, Prof.
Jan. 8
NEW YORK:
Golden Wants The Death Penalty For Cop Killers
State Senator Marty Golden wants to reinstate the death penalty in New York,
particularly for those who kill cops, according to a recent press release.
Golden put forward the bill in light of 3 cop shootings this past
Nov. 7
NEW YORKfederal death penalty trial
Drug dealer spared death penalty
A Brooklyn federal jury spared the life Friday of a convicted drug dealer
and killer when panel members couldn't unanimously agree that he deserved
the death penalty.
One of the jurors in the case of Humberto
May 30
NEW YORK:
Jury begins deliberations in death penalty case
A jury yesterday began deliberating the fate of a Peekskill gang leader
who was convicted of killing 2 drug dealers in the first federal death
penalty in memory in the district's northern suburbs.
While federal prosecutors
May 27
NEW YORK:
Senate passes death penalty bill for cop killers
The New York State Senate Tuesday passed legislation, sponsored by Senator
Martin Golden (R-C, Brooklyn), that would establish the death penalty for
criminals who kill police officers.
As a former New York City Police
Feb. 16
NEW YORK:
Albany forum hosts death penalty foes
Alan Newton knows first hand how the justice system can go terribly wrong
and now uses his experience to talk about the time and money be says is
wasted on supporting the death penalty. Newton was sentenced in 1985 to 40
years in
Oct. 24
NEW YORK:
Court decision continues to oppose death penalty
A divided New York Court of Appeals killed any hope for the death penalty
in New York when it refused yesterday to make an exception that would have
allowed for the execution of one of the men responsible for the slaughter
Oct. 2
NEW YORK:
NYC jury decides on life sentences for insurance killings
A Brooklyn jury has given 2 men life in prison instead of the death
penalty for a series of life insurance killings.
Former postal worker Ronald Mallay and former insurance agent Richard
James were convicted in
July 22
NEW YORK:
Execution is wrong, even for cop-killers
Even before murdered NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko was laid to rest,
politicians were braying for blood, calling on New York to reinstate the
death penalty for cop-killers.
Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno rushed through
July 13
NEW YORK:
Gallows May Await if Police Officer Dies
Should the wounds Officer Russel Timoshenko suffered on Monday prove
fatal, his death could set off a jurisdictional dance between state and
federal prosecutors over whether his shooter faces the death penalty.
New York State
June 20
NEW YORK:
Winner: Senate will back death penalty
The state Senate later today is expected toi act on legislation
co-sponsored by Senator George H. Winner Jr., R-C, Elmira, to reinstate
New Yorks death penalty in all cases of 1st-degree murder.
The legislation addresses a June
June 12
NEW YORK:
Goal of innocence commission to prevent unlawful imprisonment
4 men recently appeared before the Codes Committee of the New York State
Assembly and in quiet, articulate, and electrifying detail described how
they had spent a total of 63 years in New York state prisons
May 27
NEW YORK:
Death penalty bill in Albany suffocated by politics O'Mara among GOP
pushing for a vote in Assembly, but speaker says 'no.'
Debate over the death penalty is in full throat again at the Capitol,
spurred by a spate of shootings of police officers.
The arguments are
May 16
NEW YORK:
Death penalty politics
So what were Monday's deliberations by the state Senate all about, really?
A rather lopsided vote to restore the death penalty, at least for the
convicted killers of police officers, surely qualifies as a show of force.
There's no question where
May 15
NEW YORK:
N.Y. Senate OKs death penalty for cop killers
With police groups looking on, the Senate passed a death penalty bill for
cop killers Monday, even as the speaker of the Assembly said his chamber
won't take up the measure.
Today we're asking colleagues to vote for those
May 14
NEW YORK:
New York State Senate to Act on Death Penalty Legislation
Members of the New York State Senate Majority conference announced today
they would act on legislation that would establish the death penalty for
criminals who kill a police officer.
The legislation is sponsored
May 14
NEW YORK:
State senate approves death penalty for cop killers
With police-union and association groups looking on, the Senate on Monday
passed a death-penalty bill for cop-killers, even as the head of the
Assembly said his house won't even take up the measure.
Today we're asking
May 8
NEW YORK:
Foes speak out against NY death penalty plan
As lawmakers weigh reinstating the death penalty in New York, anti-death
penalty groups and state Senate Democrats voiced their concerns on
reimplementation yesterday.
After Trooper David Brinkerhoff died in pursuit of an armed
April 11
NEW YORK:
Cuomo sits out death decision Won't back DA on capital punishment for
Wendy's killer
The mastermind of the Wendy's massacre is fighting to get off death row -
and new Attorney General Andrew Cuomo won't try to stop him.
That means when John Taylor's appeal comes
March 31
NEW YORKnew federal death sentence
Death penalty in 2 NYPD slayings; defense lawyers plan appeal
Defense attorneys vowed to appeal after a gunman was sentenced to death
for the cold-blooded execution of a pair of undercover police officers - a
sentence that made him the 1st
Feb. 6
NEW YORK:
Victim's sobbing son testifies in Brooklyn death-penalty case
A weeping teen left jurors crying in a hushed Brooklyn courtroom as he
testified Tuesday in the death penalty case against a notorious drug lord
convicted of hiring hitmen to kill the boy's father.
My father
Oct. 23
NEW YORK:
Death penalty would help limit crime
In response to Suzanne Schnittman's Oct. 14 letter about more gun control,
does she realize that New York state is one of the most restrictive states
in the country when it comes to gun control? Hand gun laws are very
restrictive, and
Oct. 1
NEW YORK:
Homespun Injustice
The idea of a village judge sounds appealing, like a Mayberry elder
perhaps, or a folksy, no-nonsense justice of the peace. But a Times series
by William Glaberson has revealed the appalling ways some of New Yorks
hometown justices really work.
These
June 25
NEW YORK:
Death penalty shouldn't be for just cop killers
Although we are horrified by the recent murders of members of our police
community, in reality, murder is murder, and it shouldn't matter whether
it's a cop or just the average John/Jane Doe.
It was stated in a recent
April 13
NEW YORK:
Judiciary Budget Escapes Governor's Vetoes
Governor George E. Pataki yesterday signed off on a judiciary budget that
includes $69.5 million for retroactive judicial pay raises, although
additional legislation is needed before that money can be spent and
salaries are
April 8
NEW YORKre: possible federal death penalty
Notorious Brooklyn Drug Lord Could Face Death Penalty
A federal judge has cleared the way for a notorious drug lord in Brooklyn
to face the death penalty.
Kenneth Supreme McGriff and 4 co-defendants were supposed to go on trial
in
March 28
NEW YORK:
Unabomber's brother defends abolition of death penalty
10 years ago, David Kaczynski was forced to make the heart-wrenching
decision of going to the FBI with suspicions that his own brother could be
the infamous Unabomber, who the FBI had been after for 17 years.
(My
March 23
NEW YORKfederal death penalty sought
Federal death penalty trial mulled for man charged with killing trooper
In Rochester, a suspected bank robber and 2 accomplices accused of killing
a state trooper could be indicted within weeks on federal murder charges,
which would make
March 21
NEW YORK:
Clemency for Death Row Inmates to be Discussed
ContactJohn DellaContrada
dellacon at buffalo.edu
716-645-5000 ext 1409
Lawyers involved in four highly publicized death-row cases, including the
clemency plea of Stanley Tookie Williams, will participate in a panel
March 16
NEW YORK:
Death penalty is neither a swift nor sure punishment
We grieve with all New Yorkers for law enforcement officers murdered
outside Utica and in the Southern Tier and join in the call for swift and
sure justice for their killers. The death penalty remains the wrong
March 2
NEW YORK:
Pataki renews call for death penalty in wake of officers' deaths
In the wake of the fatal shooting of 2 police officers in 3 days -
including a New Hartford police officer - Gov. George E. Pataki said today
he will renew his call to reinstate the death penalty for anyone
Feb. 23
NEW YORK:
Researchers archive death row mercy pleas
When the last court says no and the clock ticks down toward an execution,
a prisoner's only chance is a plea for mercy.
Such pleas arrive each year before governors, pardons boards and the
president, many with tales of woe told
Feb. 11
NEW YORK:
Defense attorney says confession coerced, should be tossed out
A defense attorney argued Friday investigators bullied an ex-convict into
confessing to murdering three women, insisting the statement should be
barred as evidence.
Investigators questioned Nicholas Wiley in
Dec. 20
NEW YORK:
Law Enforcement Groups Oppose Pataki Death Penalty Proposal
Focusing on the recent deaths of two New York City police officers, Gov.
George E. Pataki is pressuring the state Legislature to impose the death
penalty for anyone convicted of the 1st degree murder of a
Nov. 30
NEW YORK:
Death penalty limboState should remove unworkable and unjust law from
the books
If Virginia had followed through with plans to execute convicted murderer
Robin Lovitt today, he would have become the 1,000th person to be executed
since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated
Oct. 30
NEW YORK:
The anti-executioner's songPlay tackles death penalty Steve Earle's
Karla part of his campaign for its abolition
There have been 987 executions in the United States since the death
penalty was reinstated in 1976. Each has been one too many for Steve
Earle.
He wears
death penalty news
September 24, 2005
NEW YORK:
Local Capital Defender Office faces bittersweet
closing - Capital defender ends work, hopes it won't resume
When William T. Easton joined the state Capital
Defender Office in 1995, he hoped to work himself out of a job.
A staunch opponent of
August 28
NEW YORK:
Capital Punishment Research Initiative: MISSION STATEMENT,
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND FUTURE PLANS
The Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) was founded in the late
1990s at the School of Criminal Justice , University at Albany. The CPRI
has 3 primary purposes: (1)
April 6
NEW YORK:
Assembly must vote on death penalty
As predicted, the Assembly's Democrats are headed toward killing New
York's death penalty by bottling it up in committee rather than allowing
the full house to vote on the most important criminal justice issue on the
agenda. Speaker
death penalty news
April 8, 2005
NEW YORK:
Putting death penalty on Death Row
Talk about a mercy killing: Albany is finally on the verge of putting the
death penalty out of its misery.
It was last summer that the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals,
pulled the plug on capital
April 12
NEW YORK:
New York State Legislative Committee Defeats Death Penalty; Vote Comes as
Skepticism of the Death Penalty Increases Nationwide
Contact: Shari Silberstein of Quixote Center, 301-699-0042, ext. 119
(office); or sha...@quixote.org
The New York State Assembly Codes
April 13
NEW YORK:
N.Y. DEATH PENALTY IS D.O.A.
Assembly Democrats yesterday put what could be the final nail in the
coffin of the state's death penalty - leaving Gov. Pataki fuming.
The Assembly Codes Committee voted down legislation aimed at fixing a
major sentencing provision of the
death penalty news
April 14, 2005
NEW YORK:
New York's Death Penalty Dies
The Assembly Codes Committee killed the state's death penalty Tuesday,
April 12, voting 11-7 against legislation that would have addressed a
sentencing provision of the death penalty law which caused the Court of
June 14
NEW YORK:
Death row inmate in Texas confesses to 1987 western N.Y. killing
A former drifter has confessed to killing a suburban Buffalo hairdresser
after she left a western New York bar in 1987.
But authorities in Lockport in Niagara County say serial killer Tommy Lynn
Sells
August 7
NEW YORK:
Where Killers Are Out of Style
THE lions aren't lying down with the lambs yet at the Bronx Zoo, but New
York is becoming an increasingly peaceable kingdom.
With the year more than half over, it appears the number of homicides in
the city may fall below 500 for the
June 28
NEW YORK:
DeAngelis will seek the death penalty
Rensselaer County District Attorney Patricia DeAngelis will seek the death
penalty against 1 of the 3 men in the Christopher Drabik case.
This is despite last week's ruling by the state's highest court, which
found a key element of
July 19
NEW YORK:
Little optimism as lawmakers set to return
State lawmakers are returning to the Capitol this week, but what they'll
actually accomplish is anybodys guess.
Gov. George Pataki and legislative leaders appear no closer to resolving
major issues, including a state budget,
death penalty news
August 5, 2004
NEW YORK:
Jury rejects death penalty in case
A federal jury rejected death as a sentence Thursday for two men convicted
of killing a government informant, bringing an emotional end to a case in
which the trial judge had concluded the federal death penalty
death penalty news
August 11, 2004
NEW YORK:
Pataki Introduces Bill to Restore Death Penalty
Gov. George E. Pataki introduced a bill this week to fix a provision of the
state's capital punishment law that was recently invalidated by New York's
highest court. But even the governor's aides
Aug. 11
NEW YORK:
Pataki Introduces Bill to Restore Death Penalty
Gov. George E. Pataki introduced a bill this week to fix a provision of
the state's capital punishment law that was recently invalidated by New
York's highest court. But even the governor's aides said it stood little
chance
death penalty news
September 19, 2004
NEW YORK:
Capital Punishment
To the Editor:
Gov. George E. Pataki is cynically misleading in saying the
death penalty is necessary to prevent dangerous killers
from getting back on the streets (No Execution in the
Killing of 2 Detectives, news article,
Oct. 17
NEW YORK:
The Death Penalty As a Personal Thing
The speaker was a soft-spoken man. He was a little stooped, like someone
who had been through a lot. He looked familiar from old news reports, but
grayer. In plastic chairs, the small group at a church here listened to
his arguments
Nov. 18
NEW YORK:
Effort to Reinstate Death Penalty Law Is Stalled in Albany
5 months after New York's highest court struck down the state's death
penalty, lawmakers in Albany have little hope this year of fixing flaws in
the law to put capital punishment back on the books. In fact,
Nov. 21
NEW YORKpossible federal death sentence
Push death penalty in cop slay
Federal indictments will be announced tomorrow in the slayings of 2 Staten
Island undercover detectives, a move that will make the suspected shooter
eligible for the death penalty, sources close to the
Nov. 24
NEW YORK:
Death penalty bill faces delays -- Silver wants public hearings on
reinstating statute; Pataki calls move obstructionist
In Albany, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday he will hold
public hearings on the future of the death penalty before any new law is
passed,
Dec. 5
NEW YORKpossible federal death penalty trial
A case for death penalty? -- Federal murder trial could be a Buffalo first
Richard M. Alicea Jr. was a scared 19-year-old when he went to police to
provide information about his involvement with a Jamestown drug ring. In a
meeting
Dec. 9
NEW YORK:
Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesA Pivotal Time for the Death Penalty
This is a pivotal time for the death penalty, both here in New York State
and on a national level. The New York Court of Appeals this past summer
blocked all executions under the current state law,
death penalty news
December 20, 2004
NEW YORK:
The Death Penalty
To the Editor:
Re New Debate Over Restoring Death Penalty (news article, Dec. 16):
The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, opposes capital
punishment because states with the death penalty have homicide rates
Jan. 17
NEW YORK:
Morgenthau deserves to stay in the DA's job
In her frequent appearances on Court TV and NBC, Leslie Crocker Snyder
comes across as a smart and savvy lawyer. And as a former New York State
judge for almost 20 years, she earned a reputation as a no-nonsense jurist
who
Jan. 21
NEW YORK:
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHNew York Should Not Reinstate the Death Penalty
Testimony before members of the NY State Assembly
Testimony of Dorit Radzin Advocacy Associate, Human Rights Watch
before members of the New York State Assembly, January 21, 2005
Thank you
Feb. 9
NEW YORK:
[Shari Silberstein note: The first article is incorrect about the DA
count. We are now at 2 DAs testifying for restoring the dp 2 DAs
against.]
DA says public best served without death penaltySchenectady County's
Robert Carney cites costs, criteria issues
Feb. 11
NEW YORK:
Death Penalty Seems Unlikely to Be Revived
A solid majority of Democrats in the State Assembly now oppose
resurrecting the death penalty, including key leaders who voted for the
law in 1995, making it more likely that it will not be revived, according
to lawmakers on
Feb. 21
NEW YORK:
Majority In New York Against Death Penalty
More adults in the Empire State choose 2 alternatives over capital
punishment, according to a poll by the New York Times. 56 % of respondents
believe life in prison with or without parole should be the penalty for
persons
Feb. 23
NEW YORK:
State GOP dropped the ball on the death penalty
Republican leaders who accuse Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
of killing the death penalty in New York State should look in the mirror.
Politically speaking, they let capital punishment die without a fight.
The
March 4
NEW YORK:
Albany Tries to Unmuddy Its Budget-Making
No walls have come tumbling down yet, but there are a few signs here that
glasnost may finally be coming to Albany.
But reform, the legislative leaders have taken to saying, is in the eye of
the beholder. Take one of the most
March 6
NEW YORK:
Despite moratorium, cases still eligible for death penalty
5 years after his brother was killed execution-style along with 4 others
at a Wendy's restaurant in Queens, Benjamin Nazario said life for his
family is not getting any easier.
Ramon Nazario's murder left his
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