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Texas Tribune
April 25, 2018
His case was heard and ultimately rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. by Jolie McCullough April 25, 2018 6 hours ago. Death row inmate Erick Davila was convicted of the 2008 murders of a Fort Worth woman and her five-year-old granddaughter. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Texas Tribune thanksÃâà...
Chron.com
April 25, 2018
"The only question is how many people wanna get on that boat and row with us," he said. To anyone following the Texas death penalty closely, this may sound a bit familiar. Kovarsky squared off with Kretzer and Volberding in a 2015 legal fight involving death row prisoner Robert Leslie Roberson,Ãâà...
Chron.com
April 24, 2018
But the U.S. Fifth Circuit, in a Monday decision, wrote that defense lawyers could have already known about Davila's heavy drug use the night of the crime. "We are unpersuaded that his counsel was not also reasonably on notice about the relation between drugs and the events of the shooting," the courtÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 23, 2018
In a recent interview, former U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson told the Post-Dispatch that the special board of judges had met twice since it was formed. The first meeting was held in November, when the jurists received transcripts of Williams' trial, information on DNA testing that was done in 2016 and otherÃâà...
LIVEKINDLY
April 4, 2018
A vegan non-profit launched the Pawsitive Change Prison Program to rehabilitate prison inmates and rescue dogs by pairing them together for 14 weeks. The program saves over 100 dogs from death row every year and so far, has helped more than 200 inmates. The innovative program, formed byÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
April 4, 2018
LINCOLN (AP) — Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie “Boys Don't Cry” say he should be found ineligible for ... is intellectually disabled and therefore can't be put to death under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling forbidding the execution of the intellectually disabled.
Pensacola News Journal
April 3, 2018
In October 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in another local case that set the precedent for unanimous jury verdicts. In its ruling in Hurst v. Florida, the high court sided with Escambia County inmate Timothy Hurst, who claimed it was unconstitutional for the court to impose a death sentenceÃâà...
Lincoln Journal Star
April 3, 2018
Attorneys for death-row inmate John Lotter are taking a new position, alleging he is ineligible for the death penalty because he functions intellectually as a ... The attorneys cited a landmark 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision forbidding the execution of people with intellectual disabilities and a later decisionÃâà...
AL.com
April 3, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court won't review the cases of two men on Alabama's Death Row. The court announced in its weekly order list issued Monday that they have denied writs of certiorari--or requests to review--filed in the cases of Jeffrey Lee and Ryan Gerald Russell. Russell was convicted and sentencedÃâà...
THV11.com KTHV
March 29, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Lawyers for the state of Arkansas say an inmate is trying to "frustrate" the enforcement of the states' execution law by raising appeals the state and U.S. supreme courts have already considered. The Arkansas Supreme Court on March 1 dissolved a stay of execution for Don Davis,Ãâà...
Montgomery Advertiser
March 28, 2018
A U.S. judge ordered Alabama to preserve death chamber evidence of an aborted execution and be ready to present it at court after lawyers for the ... Alabama will not try to execute a death row inmate a second time after he walked out of the execution chamber last month, the inmate's lawyer said Tuesday.
Arkansas Online
March 27, 2018
Condemned Arkansas prisoner Bruce Earl Ward asked the state's top justices Monday to reimpose a long-running stay of execution on his behalf while he and a fellow death row inmate prepare an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ward was one of eight men scheduled for lethal injection in April 2017,Ãâà...
Austin American-Statesman
March 27, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected, without comment, an appeal by Brandon Daniel, who was sentenced to die for the 2012 shooting death of an ... Lawyers for the death row inmate argued that state District Judge Brenda Kennedy improperly communicated with jurors during Daniel's 2014 trial,Ãâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
March 22, 2018
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated the death sentence of Mississippi's only female death row inmate. The ruling Tuesday came almost three years after a federal court ruling granted Lisa Jo Chamberlin, 45, a new trial in a double homicide in Hattiesburg, Miss., about 85 miles southeast ofÃâà...
Governing
March 22, 2018
Siding with a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a lower court to take another look at Carlos Ayestas' request for money to fully investigate his claims of schizophrenia, brain injuries and similar issues. Known as mitigating evidence, such information is supposed to beÃâà...
KY3
March 21, 2018
Supreme Court grants stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate ... LOUIS (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for a Missouri inmate who argued that a medical condition could result in the process causing him undue suffering. Russell Bucklew was scheduled to die byÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 21, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, ordering a federal appellate court to reconsider providing funding for him to investigate previously unexplored evidence that he believes could toss out his death sentence. The high court ruled unanimously to send the case ofÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 21, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, ordering a federal appellate court to reconsider providing funding for him to investigate previously unexplored evidence that he believes could toss out his death sentence. The high court ruled unanimously to send the case ofÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
Department of Corrections reports say 6,243 of the 41,681 prisoners in the entire Arizona Department of Corrections population have hepatitis C, which comes to 15 percent. The most recent Arizona Death Row inmate to die was Brian Dann on March 1. Dann sued the director of the Arizona Department ofÃâà...
AL.com
March 12, 2018
An Alabama death row inmate who is set to be executed this week says he is ready to die, but his federal public defenders have asked the nation's highest court to halt his execution. Michael Wayne Eggers is set to die by lethal injection on Thursday at 6 p.m. at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.
CNN
March 7, 2018
In two civil actions filed Wednesday with the Alabama US District Court and the state circuit court, Hamm maintains that the execution was called off after "hours of physical and psychological torture, forcing needles into his lower extremities" and the right femoral vein near his groin, "causing severe bleedingÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 3, 2018
Dials' family declined to comment on the death of Campbell. Campbell isn't the only inmate to survive an execution in recent years. Romell Broom made it out of the death chamber after his executioners tried for two hours to find a good vein. And the execution of Doyle Lee Hamm in Alabama was abortedÃâà...
CNN
February 22, 2018
The inmate's father, Kent Whitaker, has "passionately" opposed the execution of his son, recently he asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a change on his sentence. "Mr. Whitaker's father insists that he would be victimized again if the state put to death his last remaining immediateÃâà...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
Oklahoma is aiming to change the state's primary method of execution by using nitrogen gas instead of lethal injection to kill death row inmates, which would make it the first state to do so. The change ... The state has 49 inmates on death row, 17 of whom have exhausted their right to appeal, Hunter said.
Montgomery Advertiser
December 31, 1999
Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it proceed with this week's scheduled execution of the 67-year-old inmate whose lawyers say can no ... Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing in Madison's case, noted the growing number of aging prisoners on death row and said, "Given this trend, we may faceÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
It's unclear whether Benavides plans to stay in California or return to his native Mexico. California has the nation's largest death row with nearly 750 inmates. Only 13 have been executed since 1978 — the last in 2006. Currently, condemned inmates are more likely to die of old age during decades ofÃâà...
WLS-TV
December 31, 1999
Calif. death row inmate freed; conviction in rape, murder of toddler overturned ... Authorities say a man who spent nearly 25 years on California's death row for raping and killing a toddler before his conviction was overturned won't be retried. ... VIDEO: Rare look inside San Quentin Prison, home of death row.
