The US Supreme Court on Thursday halted the planned execution of Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison. Vernon Madison was convicted in Alabama of murdering a police officer in 1985. He was scheduled...
Search Results for: cruel AND unusual punishment
READ MORE ▸
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center , and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP filed a class action suit [complaint,...
The state of Ohio executed convicted killer Gary Otte Wednesday morning after the US Supreme Court denied his request for a stay on Tuesday night. Otte was sentenced to death in 1992 for the...
Federal appeals court overturns Blackwater murder conviction
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned the murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard and ordered resentencing of three others for the killing of unarmed Iraqi...
Federal judge voids 2002 Beltway-sniper-killer life sentences
Judge Raymond Jackson of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday tossed out the life sentences imposed by Virginia courts for Lee Boyd Malvo , ruling that...
Appeals court denies Georgia death row inmate request for firing squad
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday denied Georgia death row inmate J.W. Ledford's request that his execution be carried out by firing squad rather than lethal injection. Ledford's counsel argued...
Federal appeals court rules cruel punishment claims can proceed against prison
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the family of a man who committed suicide while in solitary confinement can argue that he faced cruel and unusual punishment, even if they don't argue...
JURIST Guest Columnist William W. Berry III of the University of Mississippi School of Law discusses the constitutional questions and unclear future of the death penalty ... The State of Mississippi legislature has recently passed a bill to amend...
Race to Death: A Critical Look at the Death Penalty as Arkansas Executes Eight
JURIST Guest Columnist Valena Beety of West Virginia University College of Law, discusses the impending Arkansas execution of eight people in ten days ... The state of Arkansas plans to execute eight people across ten days this April. Arkansas...
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state's lethal injection protocols in a unanimous opinion. The court found that death row inmates failed to show that the current protocol violates their constitution right...
