Search Results for: cruel AND unusual punishment

The first US execution of 2007 took place Tuesday, when the state of Oklahoma executed a man by lethal injection for the 1992 murders of four people. The US Supreme Court denied Corey Duane Hamilton's...

The number of death sentences issued in 2006 reached the lowest level in 30 years, according to a 2006 year-end report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) . The DPIC reported that...

The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the state's lethal injection procedures are subject to the state's Administrative Procedures Act (APA) and therefore must be developed under the guidance of the Maryland attorney general,...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered his administration to "correct court-identified deficiencies in California's lethal injection protocol to ensure the death penalty procedure is constitutional." In a memorandum of intended decision issued...

Morales v. Tilton, US District Court for the Northen District of California San Jose District, December 15, 2006 [memorandum of intended decision concluding that California's lethal injection procedure creates an "an undue and unnecessary risk" of cruel and unusual punishment...

A federal judge issued a memorandum of intended decision Friday, concluding that California's lethal injection procedure creates "an undue and unnecessary risk" of cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the US...

A Kentucky judge on Wednesday ordered the state to hold public hearings on its lethal injection protocol, which the state changed two years ago after two death row inmates challenged it as a form of cruel and...

Baze v. Rees, Supreme Court of Kentucky, November 22, 2006 [ruling that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence of...

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence...

Tony Garza, the US Ambassador to Mexico , said Tuesday that Mexico has extradited 50 prisoners to the US this year, a record total, for stateside prosecution of crimes committed in the US. The Supreme Court of Mexico...