Oklahoma Appellate Courts Wrestle Over Death Penalty Secrecy Statute
Adam R. Banner, Oklahoma Legal Group
Oklahoma Appellate Courts Wrestle Over Death Penalty Secrecy Statute
Adam R. Banner, Oklahoma Legal Group
Florida's highest court on Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing to determine if the sedative midazolam should remain in the state's lethal injection procedure. The case of Paul Augustus Howell reached the state high court after a...
Supreme Court orders stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate
The US Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday evening staying the execution of Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls. Smulls, who was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a jewelry store owner and...
The children of convicted murderer Dennis McGuire filed a lawsuit on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio over the method used in McGuire's 26-minute long execution, which they say amounted to...
Prolonged Ohio execution heightens lethal injection drug controversy
The prolonged execution of convicted murderer Dennis McGuire on Thursday has stirred a controversy over new drugs used to administer lethal injections. McGuire was convicted in 1994 of raping and murdering a 22-year-old girl in 1989 and...
Federal appeals court upholds sentencing of attempted bomber
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday upheld the conviction and sentencing of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for his attempted bombing on an American aircraft. Abdulmutallab was...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Monday refused to halt the execution of convicted Ohio murderer Dennis McGuire, who is scheduled to die by the administration of a never-before-tried...
Ontario top court strikes down mandatory minimum sentences for firearm possession
The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled Tuesday that Section 95 of the Criminal Code , which established a three-year minimum sentence for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and a five-year minimum sentence [text,...
Pennsylvania high court rules juvenile murderers not entitled to resentencing
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that juvenile murderers who were subject to mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole will not be resentenced if their cases were final before June 2012. The US...
Should States Be Held Liable for Executing an Innocent Individual?
Nicole Megale, St. John's University School of Law