...while the prison waits for the Supreme Court to consider a stay request. It's hard to imagine this being anything but very temporary, but never give up hope I guess. More info here. And, yes, "cruel. and. unusual." pretty much sums up this whole process....
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The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency to Troy Davis, making his execution inevitable. Davis is not unquestionably innocent, and not quite a case like Cameron.
This is a different kind of injustice than Willingham, in that there seems to be good evidence that Buck killed somebody, but as for the death sentence: In May 1997,.
Great column from Coates. After bringing much-needed national attention to Rick Perry's role in the murder of Cameron Tood Willingham, the punchline says it all: Whatever one thinks of the death penalty, the accounts of those who would seek to conceal the results of their...
The Frontline documentary about Cameron Todd Willingham -- the man murdered by the state of Texas, led by Rick Perry, after being convicted based on completely worthless junk science and.
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the question on whether prosecutors can be liable if they violate the constitutional rights of the accused. The background of the case.
I strongly recommend Dahlia Lithwick's article on the pending execution of Teresa Lewis, which covers some of the same issues of paternalism and the law I alluded to yesterday. I don't believe that Lewis should be executed -- but that's because I oppose the death...
Apparently Al-Majid's execution by gallows was more "civilized" than that of Saddam Hussein three years ago. No one called him any names.
There's something very depressing about the oral arguments on juvenile sentencing yesterday. It's not just that, at best, the court seems headed towards a content fre...er, "minimalist" balancing test. In.
At the horror show that is death penalty jurisprudence in the state of Texas has been getting some attention around here, I remember that I have been remiss in not giving a plug to a unique and excellent blog on the death penalty, Executed Today....
"With Me As Your Law...Talkin' Guy, Your Railroad to the Death Chamber is Ready!"It's bad enough that various state officials conspired to murder Cameron Todd Willingham based on worthless junk.
A couple news items on Texas's murder of Cameron Todd Willingham. First, Chris Orr points us to this video of Willingham's prosecutor, John Jackson, reiterating his theory that although we.