death penalty cases

With the search function disabled, I'm not sure if there's an existing thread for this case. Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip Of course, the two "hang-em-high" justices voted for him to die.

In the absence of a stay, she will be executed for killing her daughter. Her story is that her daughter fell down a flight of stairs but did not seem to be in great distress. Two days later she died. Assuming that Ms. Lucio is telling the truth, she sounds neglectful. On the other hand the...

Keith Harward was released from prison in the US state of Virginia yesterday after spending 33 years imprisoned for the killing of Jesse Perron and the rape of his wife in Newport News in 1982. The Virginia Supreme Court accepted DNA evidence that exonerated him. His conviction relied on the...

I'm a day late with this, my apologies. On the 9th of March 1950 Albert Pierrepoint and Sydney Dernley killed Timothy Evans at Pentonville Prison in the manner then prescribed in British law, the 'long drop' form of hanging. Evans had been born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales on 20 November 1924...

Slate reports on another apparent travesty of what Justice Blackmun called "the machinery of death:" http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/09/richard_glossip_innocence_governor_or_supreme_court_should_stay_oklahoma.single.html

Some people believe strongly in her innocence but I have been listing to a number of counter arguments. I am against the death penalty because, to be blunt, you can never be 100% sure. My trouble is, no matter how much I try, I have trouble with somebody coming in just stabbing the kids and...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32178121

New Zealand is a country of 4.5 million. Multiply by 70 to expect the equivalent incidence of crime in America. I would be interested in views here, was this another man hanged for a crime not comitted, or unproved? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_James_Bolton

Debra Milke conviction overturned after 22 years on Arizona Death Row. Brady bill violated by undisclosed history of misconduct of officer Armando Saldate. http://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-womans-death-sentence-thrown-22-years-death/story?id=18732077 Here's the Court of Appeals judgement...

Hank Skinner was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two adult sons on the night of New Year's Eve in 1993. He said that he was passed out on the couch. Skinner wished to have someone test knives and a jacket found at the scene at the time of his trial, among other items, but his...

I heard a story on NR this morning about a man on death row in Georgia. Several witnesses have recanted their story and want a new trial. The reporter's words didn't overtly call for retrial, but her tone made it clear that she was lamenting this obvious miscarriage of justice. I am not so...