Criminal Law

Texas Man Who Didn't Kill May Be Executed

Posted on August 14, 2008
Texas Man Who Didn't Kill May Be Executed Jeff Wood Didn't Kill Kris Keeran, but He Is Set to Be Executed for Keeran's Death By SCOTT MICHELS http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5532710&page=1 Aug. 8, 2008 var addthis_pub = 'abcnews'; Texas is scheduled to put a man to death this month even though he never killed anyone, in what would apparently be the first execution of its kind in more than a decade...

Save Jeff Wood - music video

Posted on August 14, 2008
Rativist Capital-"X" advocates for Jeff Wood, an innocent man set to die by lethal injection on August 21, 2008 in Texas: Check it out and please pass it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouLkZNNTjk

New petition site for Jeff Wood

Posted on August 14, 2008
New petition site for Jeff WoodWe closed Jeff's original petition in order to get the majority of signatures to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. We have people still interested in signing so we created another one. Here is the web address:http://www...

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley should lead the way

Posted on August 14, 2008
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley should lead the way in trying to figure out what happened to rape evidence in the capital murder case against Thomas Arthur. Thursday, August 14, 2008 THE ISSUE: Gov. Bob Riley should lead the way in trying to figure out what happened to rape evidence in the capital murder case against Thomas Arthur...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Church leaders ask Blunt to commute death sentence

Posted on August 14, 2008
Church leaders ask Blunt to commute death sentenceAugust 12, 2008 | 11:08 p.m. CDTBY CHRIS BLANK, The Associated PressJEFFERSON CITY ? Several religious leaders have asked Gov. Matt Blunt to grant clemency to a convicted killer scheduled to be executed Aug...

Should murder accomplices face execution?

Posted on August 14, 2008
Should murder accomplices face execution? By John Gramlich, Stateline.orgStaff Writer An execution last month in Mississippi and another scheduled for this month in Texas have reignited a debate over whether the death penalty should be given to those who participate in killings ? but do not personally carry them out...

The letter from Ramsey Clark to Governor Perry

Posted on August 13, 2008
RAMSEY CLARK TH LAWRENCE W. SCHILLING 37 WEST 12 STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011212-989-6613 212-979-1583 FAX August 12, 2008 The Honorable Rick PerryGovernor, State of TexasState Capitol, Room 2S.IAustin, Texas 78701 Ms. Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek BoulevardAustin, Texas 78757 Re: Jeffrey Wood, TDJC No...

Urge Governor Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency

Posted on August 13, 2008
Urge Governor Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency Jeff Wood is waiting to die on Texas Death Row with an execution date of August 21st, 2008. This page allows you to directly contact Governor Perry and the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles via E-mail, on behalf of Jeff...

Petition for Jeff Woods closed with 2467 signatures

Posted on August 13, 2008
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-jeff-wood-from-the-texas-executioner

Wood seeks reprieve

Posted on August 13, 2008
Wood seeks reprieve By Caleb Chapman The Daily Times Published August 9, 2008 Jeffery Lee Wood does not deserve to die.That?s the plea made in an application to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole seeking clemency for the man sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of a Kerrville convenience store clerk, Kriss Keeran...

Mike Farrell Writes Letter Asking for Clemency for Jeff Wood

Posted on August 13, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Mike Farrell Writes Letter Asking for Clemency for Jeff Wood From: Mike FarrellAugust 11, 2008Ms. Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.Austin, TX 78757Dear Ms. Owens,I write in support of clemency for Jeff Wood, who is scheduled to be executed in your state in ten days...

Medellin death penalty case exposes hollow Texas brand of gunslinger politics

Posted on August 10, 2008
Excellent piece by the Austin CEDP's Bryan McCann...http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2008/07/medellin-death-penalty-case-exposes.phpHOTLINE BUZZReal-time perspectives on legal news by newsmakers, activists, legal experts and special guests...Friday, July 25, 2008Medellin death penalty case exposes hollow Texas brand of gunslinger politics10:30 AM ETBryan McCann [Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Austin, TX Chapter]:"Two years ago, a fellow anti-death penalty activist and I participated in a public debate on the University of Texascampus with the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT)...

Texas's Disdain

Posted on August 10, 2008
The Washington Post - EditorialTexas's DisdainIn carrying out two executions, the state endangers Americansdetained abroad.Friday, August 8, 2008; A16THE STATE of Texas had an opportunity this week to display a victor'sgrace. Instead, it rebuffed pleas by the U...

Medellin execution highlights flaw in international law: experts

Posted on August 10, 2008
Medellin execution highlights flaw in international law: expertsAugust 8, 2008THE HAGUE (AFP) ? The execution of a Mexican citizen by the UnitedStates against the orders of the UN's highest court highlights a flawin international law that enables countries to snub rulings without repercussions, experts say...

USSC order in Heliberto Chi

Posted on August 10, 2008
(ORDER LIST: 554 U.S.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2008 CERTIORARI DENIED 08-5652 Chi, Heliberto V. Texas (O8A112) The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court is denied...

The Chi Execution

Posted on August 10, 2008
The Chi Execution In the New York Times, David Stout reports, "Texas Executes Inmate After High Court Steps Aside."An Honduran immigrant convicted of murder was put to death in Texas on Thursday evening after the Supreme Court declined to block the execution, despite his lawyers? complaints that he should have been told that he could get assistance early on from Honduran diplomats...

Execution of Honduran Allowed

Posted on August 07, 2008
Execution of Honduran Allowed That's the title of Lyle Denniston's updated post at SCOTUS Blog. LINKUPDATE 4:30 p.m. Without recorded dissent, the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon refused to delay the execution in Texas of a Honduran for a 2001 murder in Arlington, Texas...

A Renewed Focus on Consular Notification and Heliberto Chi

Posted on August 07, 2008
A Renewed Focus on Consular Notification and Heliberto ChiWith the clock ticking toward's a 6:00 p.m. death warrant and legal papers filed at the Supreme Court, there is a new focus on the Chi case.At The BLT, Tony Mauro posts, "Supreme Court Weighs Another Texas Execution...

Chi Case at Supreme Court

Posted on August 07, 2008
Chi Case at Supreme Court Lyle Denniston reports, "New treaty-based challenge to execution," at SCOTUS Blog.A Honduran national, scheduled to be executed Thursday evening in Texas, asked the Supreme Court Thursday morning to delay that process and hear his claim that Texas violated a U...

From UK's The Independent

Posted on August 07, 2008
From UK's The Independent David Usborne writes, "The Big Question: Why is the United States still imposing the death penalty?" from New York. Here's an excerpt: What America does in its own prisons is its own business, most of the time...

Mexico Protests Medellin Exeuction

Posted on August 07, 2008
Mexico Protests Medellin Exeuction "Mexican government protests Texas execution," is the CNN report.The United States violated international law by putting a Mexican national to death in Texas, the Mexican government said Wednesday. Protesters for and against Jose Ernesto Medellin's execution gathered before he was put to death Tuesday night in Huntsville, Texas, for raping and murdering two teens in 1993...

Heliberto Chi

Posted on August 07, 2008
Heliberto ChiFor the second time in two weeks a Texas execution threatens to violate international law. Like Jose Medellin, law enforcement officials failed to provide Heliberto Chi the consular notification that he had the right to contact the government of Honduras at the time he was arrested...

Statements of Attorneys in the Medellin Case

Posted on August 07, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Statements of Attorneys in the Medellin Case This is from Sandra Babcock, one of Jose Medellin's attorneys:Congress should act immediately to implement the Avena judgment and provide for judicial review in the cases of other Mexican nationals who were denied consular access...

Commentary: Medellin

Posted on August 06, 2008
Commentary: Medellin, via SCOTUSblog von Lyle Denniston am 06.08.08 Commentary Many thousands of words about the death penalty have beeen written or spoken to or by the Supreme Court in recent months, but in the past few days the Court ? supposedly on its summer break ? has had to think hard about the meaning of silence...

Execution in Texas: US should end its pick and choose attitude towards international law

Posted on August 06, 2008
Press release - 570(2008)Execution in Texas: US should end its pick and choose attitudetowards international lawStatement by Council of Europe Secretary General Terry DavisStrasbourg, 06.08.2008 - ?I am most concerned by the execution ofMexican national José Medellin yesterday in Texas...

You still have all those Mexicans sitting on death rows in the United States

Posted on August 06, 2008
Well you still have all those Mexicans sitting on death rows in the United States. so Mexico could do two things, suggested before: 1. invoke the Arbitration Clause of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; 2. negotiate and conclude an international executive agreement with the United States government settling this entire dispute that could then be enforced upon the States of the Union holding Mexicans on death row under the Belmont and Pink cases...

Technically, it was the United States of America that defied the World Court and the United Nations Charter

Posted on August 06, 2008
Technically, it was the United States of America that defied the World Court and the United Nations Charter.fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) fboyle@law.uiuc...

This statement by the State Department is not true

Posted on August 06, 2008
This statement by the State Department is not true:1. The United States government had an obligation to intervene in thelatest request to the Supreme Court for a Stay, which it failed andrefused to do.2. The USG could have entered into an international executive agreementwith Mexico resolving this dispute one way or another, which then couldhave been enforced against the State of Texas by the US Supreme Courtunder the Belmont and Pink Cases...

US LOST ITS LAST CREDIBILITY IN THIS WORLD

Posted on August 06, 2008
Dont ever believe in any signatures from US anymore. Signatures can be circumvented as they please americans anytime. US has decided an isolation policy. Sorry, but you lost it all. americans. Your chance is gone.

USSC OPINION ON APPLICATION TO RECALL AND STAY MANDATE

Posted on August 06, 2008
http://josemedellin.info/legal/medellin-opinion-8-5-08.pdfCite as: 554 U. S. ____ (2008) Per Curiam SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Nos. 06?984 (08A98), 08?5573 (08A99), and 08?5574 (08A99) JOSE ERNESTO MEDELLIN06?984 (08A98) v.TEXAS ON APPLICATION TO RECALL AND STAY MANDATE AND FORSTAY JOSE ERNESTO MEDELLIN08?5573 (08A99) v...

Bloggers, promote your law blog by nominating your blog for inclusion in USLaw.com's Law Blog Directory and RSS Reader. Benefits described.