Amnesty International (AI) released a statement on Thursday calling for Arkansas to halt the execution of eight death row prisoners. Arkansas has scheduled these execution to take place within short time spans of each other in...
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Proposed California bill would add third gender option to state documents
Democrats in the California State Senate introduced a bill on Thursday that would make California the first state to include three gender options on state identification documents: male, female and non-binary. The bill was...
Federal judge declines to delay execution over drug controversy
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday declined to delay the execution of convicted killer Ricky Gray, which is scheduled to take place January 18. Gray's attorneys argued in December...
Supreme Court hears argument on Texas death penalty disability standard
The US Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in Moore v. Texas , a case challenging Texas' standard for determining whether a person is intellectually disabled and therefore cannot be subject to capital punishment. In...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in two death penalty cases. In Moore v. Texas the court will decide (1) whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Supreme...
On the Road to Abolition: Capital Punishment and Its Uncertain Future in the United States
JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Dedman School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the evolution and future of the death penalty...Capital punishment in this country has a long and storied history. In the early years, the colonies...
Supreme Court rules state court unreasonably denied man on death row mental capacity hearing
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday in Brumfield v. Cain that a man who was convicted in 1993 for killing a police officer in Louisiana is entitled to have a new hearing...
Supreme Court hears arguments on determining mental incapacity for capital punishment
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over how to apply the court's 2002 decision Atkins v. Virginia , which decided that capital punishment for mentally handicapped individuals was considered cruel and...
Georgia executes inmate despite claims of intellectual disability
The state of Georgia executed inmate Warren Lee Hill Tuesday despite arguments made by his attorneys that he was intellectually disabled. The US Supreme Court denied Hill's application for stay of execution, rejecting both his petition for...
The US Supreme Court agreed last Friday to add three cases to the docket for the upcoming term. The first case, Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. involves...
