Showing posts with label Death Penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death Penalty. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Missouri Executes Russell Bucklew

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I covered the Eighth Amendment in my classes today and shared this story with my students. From the piece: Missouri executes killer desp...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Gavin Newsome Issues Death Penalty Moratorium for California's Death Row

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I'm not pleased. At the Los Angeles Times: Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death pena...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker, Courting Death

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At Amazon, Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment .
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Death Penalty Isn't Going Away in California

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Apparently, the battle over the death penalty in California isn't going away, despite the failure of the recent voter initiative to ban...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Efforts to End Death Row in California

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I've got to bone up on this. We've got two competing voter initiatives on the November ballot. At LAT, " On death row, the ef...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Jury Finds Colorado Theater Shooter Guilty on 165 Counts

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I wrote all about this case at the time. No surprise about the verdicts. At the Los Angeles Times, " James Holmes found guilty of m...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Supreme Court Will Review Use of Lethal Injections

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At USA Today : WASHINGTON -- In a case that could have broad implications for hundreds of death row inmates, the Supreme Court will consid...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Charles Warner, Black Mofo Dead-Man-Walking, to Be Executed Today for Rape and Murder of 11-Month-Old Baby

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Hopefully, it'll be a botched execution and the motherfucker will go down in excruciatingly caustic pain from the burning, death-bringin...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Europe Hasn't Abolished Capital Punishment: Frank Van Den Bleeken, Murderer and Rapist, to Be 'Euthanized' in Humanitarian Gesture

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See, for Europe's progressive left, state sponsored murder is just fine. Fine and dandy. As long as it's justified not in terms of &...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

James Holmes' Parents Plead Against Death Penalty

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At LAT, " James Holmes' parents plead for their son: 'He is not a monster' ": The parents of shooting suspect Jam...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Arizona 2-Hour Execution Rekindles Debate on Death Penalty

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A federal judge argued this week to bring back the firing squad, and that's where the debate should be going --- toward functionally mo...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

'Can't bring myself to feel sorry over the botched execution of a guy who shot a woman and buried her alive after he raped her friend...'

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Comment from Dana Loesch, on Facebook . And that made me realize, after my earlier entry, " Clayton Lockett Botched Execution ,"...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Clayton Lockett Botched Execution

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Hey, props to Oklahoma whose officials will almost single handedly ensure that the death penalty is finally ruled cruel and unusual. This ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Ka Pasasouk, Suspect in Northridge Murders, Got Probation Instead of Prison During Recent Criminal Court Hearing

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Lovely. Our wonderfully humane criminal justice system put this dude up for probation despite a string of previous convictions and court h...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Killer Ronnie Lee Gardner Executed by Firing Squad

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At New York Times , " Utah Executes Murderer by Firing Squad ." And at ABC News, " 'He Will Never Assault Anybody Again&#...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Evolving Standards of Decency? Supreme Court Limits 'Harsh' Terms for Minors

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The editors at NTY are calling it " A New Standard of Decency ," but yesterday's ruling on juvenile sentencing is just one mo...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Georgia Executes Mark McClain: Activists, Communists Protest 'Freakish' System of 'Arbitrary' Punishment

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Mark McClain, the so-called "Pizza Store Killer," was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening. The Georgia Department of ...
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