Criminal Law

A New Standard of Decency

Posted on May 18, 2010
May 17, 2010Monday?s welcome Supreme Court decision, banning sentences of life without parole for juvenile criminals who do not commit murder, recognizes that children mature and should not be irrevocably punished for a childhood act short of killing...

A New Standard of Decency

Posted on May 18, 2010
May 17, 2010Monday?s welcome Supreme Court decision, banning sentences of life without parole for juvenile criminals who do not commit murder, recognizes that children mature and should not be irrevocably punished for a childhood act short of killing...

A CALL TO ACTION TO DECERTIFY GA EXECUTION DOCTOR CARLO MUSSO

Posted on May 11, 2010
Dear Friends and Abolitionists, as some of you may already know, in response to an article published on May 4 in the Washington Post on the American Board of Anesthesiologists taking a formal position that it will decertify doctors who participate in executions, University of Illinois Professor of Law, Francis Boyle, sent a letter to the American Board of Emergency Medicine asking them to terminate Georgia execution doctor Carlo Anthony Musso...

Condemned Ohio inmate claims tolerance to lethal drug could deny him painless execution

Posted on May 09, 2010
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAssociated Press Writer9:53 AM EDT, May 9, 2010COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? A condemned Ohio inmate who fatally shot a man while hitchhiking claims his tolerance to a lethal injection drug could deprive him of a painless execution.Death row inmate Michael Beuke (BYOO'-kee), scheduled to die Thursday, argues in court papers he has developed a tolerance to one of the drugs used in Ohio's backup injection method...

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Francis Boyle Acts to Revoke Board Certification for Georgia Execution Doctor

Posted on May 07, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ? May 6, 2010 Francis Boyle Acts to Revoke Board Certification for Georgia Execution Doctor: In response to an article published May 4 in the Washington Post on the American Board of Anesthesiologists decertifying Execution Doctors , Francis Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois , Champaign-Urbana, sent a letter to the American Board of Emergency Medicine regarding Dr Carlo Anthony Musso of Georgia...

Clayton sheriff launches charitable foundation

Posted on May 07, 2010
As Clayton County?s sheriff, Kem Kimbrough plays a key role in public safety by overseeing one of the law enforcement arms of the county, and by running the county jail.Posted: 11:55 PM Apr 16, 2010By Curt Yeomanscyeomans@news-daily.comAs Clayton County?s sheriff, Kem Kimbrough plays a key role in public safety by overseeing one of the law enforcement arms of the county, and by running the county jail...

"Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections"

Posted on May 03, 2010
From the blog Sentencing, Law and Policy :May 2, 2010http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2010/05/group-to-censure-physicians-who-play-role-in-lethal-injections.html"Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections"The title of this post is the headline of this notable article from today's Washington Post, which reviews the latest effort by a group of doctors to prevent physician involvement in lethal injections...

Line drawn on lethal injection

Posted on May 03, 2010
Killed Line drawn on lethal injection By Rob Stein, The Washington Post Monday, May 3, 2010 var serverUrl = "http://sitelife.postandcourier.com/ver1.0/Direct/Process"; var requestBatch = new RequestBatch(); var contentTypeDisco = new ContentType("Article"); requestBatch...

Group to censure doctors for executions

Posted on May 03, 2010
Killedhttp://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/02/Group-to-censure-doctors-for-executions/UPI-52111272817978/Group to censure doctors for executionsWASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- U.S. anesthesiologists who play a role in an execution by lethal injection will have their certification revoked, say leaders of their national governing group...

Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections

Posted on May 03, 2010
Killed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/01/AR2010050103190.html?hpid=topnewsGroup to censure physicians who play role in lethal injectionsBy Rob Stein Washington Post Staff WriterSunday, May 2, 2010 A national physicians organization has quietly decided to revoke the certification of any member who participates in executing a prisoner by lethal injection...

Anesthesiologist Group To-Decertify Physicians Who Help With Lethal Injections

Posted on May 03, 2010
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/May/03/Lethal-Injections.aspxMay 03, 2010Anesthesiologist Group To-Decertify Physicians Who Help With LethalInjectionsThe American Board of Anesthesiologists "has quietly decided to revokethe certification of any member who participates in executing aprisoner by lethal injection," according to The Washington Post...

Briton on death row in Texas seeks stay from Supreme Court

Posted on May 03, 2010
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles TimesMay 3, 2010When British consular officials in Houston first learned that Linda Carty was in trouble with the law, the St. Kitts-born British national was already on death row in Texas, convicted in a bizarre plot to kill a neighbor and kidnap her newborn son...

Woman on death row waiting to hear news

Posted on May 03, 2010
Supreme Court may decide today whether it will take her appealBy RENÉE C. LEEHOUSTON CHRONICLEMay 3, 2010, 7:34AMTwenty-year-old Joana Rodriguez had just given birth days earlier when four men busted into her Houston apartment on May 16, 2001, pistol-whipped her husband and abducted her and her newborn...

Anesthesiologists face penalty for participating in death penalty

Posted on May 03, 2010
May 3, 2010by Vicky EckenrodeThe American Board of Anesthesiologists has decided to drop the certification of any member who participates in a prisoner?s death sentence, according to a recent Washington Post article.If enforced, it would mean anesthesiologists who help administer the lethal injection process could lose their ability to practice in most hospitals...

Senate Resolution 1289 By: Senators Buckner of the 44th and Seay of the 34th

Posted on May 02, 2010
Just when you think the GA legislature can?t get anymore outrageous they do things like recognizing Carlo Musso, the execution doctor! The resolution was sponsored by dems Gail Buckner and Valencia Seay If that's enough to make you sick and you'd consider getting in touch with them and tell them how you feel, these are their contacts! Senator Buckner, Gail (D) 44th http://www...

Government's rendition bully tactics

Posted on May 02, 2010
Six years ago the British took two men into custody in Iraq. Working with the Americans, the UK then rendered the men to Afghanistan where they have been held ever since in secret detention, beyond the protection of law.The charity for which I work, Reprieve, has been trying to reunite them with their legal rights...

Doctors' role in executions debated

Posted on May 01, 2010
Death penalty foes go after licenses.By CARLOS CAMPOSThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 02/01/05 After a lethal dose of chemicals flowed through the veins of convicted killer Timothy Don Carr last Tuesday night, two physicians with stethoscopes around their necks quietly entered the execution chamber...

Calif. Case Spotlights Dysfunctional Death Penalty

Posted on April 26, 2010
Calif. killer's life sentence highlights death penalty flaws; state has 700 stuck on death row Chelsea King's parents reluctantly agreed to a sentence of life in prison for their daughter's rapist and killer, calling the death penalty in California "an empty promise...

After years as justice, John Paul Stevens wants what's 'best for the court'

Posted on April 20, 2010
By Robert BarnesWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, April 4, 2010; A01 FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. -- Around here, one of the most powerful men in the nation is known as plain old John Stevens -- courteous bridge player, early-morning regular at the country club's tennis courts, a quiet but active condo neighbor who checks his weight in the gym before heading off for his daily swim...

John Paul Stevens' unexpectedly liberal legacy

Posted on April 20, 2010
The retiring Supreme Court justice started out as a conservative in 1975, but as he saw it, the court shifted right as he held to the center.By David G. Savage8:02 PM PDT, April 9, 2010Reporting from WashingtonThe Supreme Court career of John Paul Stevens could not have been easily predicted in 1975 when he arrived as a Midwestern Republican with a background in corporate and antitrust law...

US judge refuses to protect Guantanamo prisoner Ahmed Belbacha from forced return to Algeria

Posted on April 20, 2010
A federal district court in Washington has today rejected the pleas of former British resident Ahmed Belbacha, refusing to block his forced return to persecution and torture in Algeria. Ahmed?s attorney Tara Murray of Reprieve, said: ?Ahmed?s desperate plight, together with his gentle nature, have attracted many private offers of help from both sides of the Atlantic...

Reprieve sues the British Government over the two men rendered by the UK to Bagram

Posted on April 15, 2010
Reprieve reveals the likely identity of the second victim via press conference today; British Government tries to intimidate Reprieve into dropping legal action.After misleading Parliament and the public and forcing innocent families to suffer for six years, the British Government is now attempting to intimidate Reprieve out of filing suit on behalf of rendition victims held indefinitely at the notorious Bagram Internment Facility...

Mother urges UK Government to confirm rendition of her son six years ago

Posted on April 15, 2010
The mother of Yunus Rahmatullah wants to know where her missing son is The mother of a Pakistani man who disappeared six years ago urged the British Government today to confirm whether he is one of two suspects arrested by British Special Forces in Iraq, handed over to the US military and secretly flown to a notorious detention centre in Afghanistan in 2004...

Lawyer offers glimpse into death row cases

Posted on April 04, 2010
Gregg MayerSpecial to The Clarion-LedgerOn David Dow's office calendar, four dates near the end of January were circled in red. Three circles represented days that the state of Texas planned to execute death row inmates. One circle marked the day of a court hearing that was Dow's last chance to save a man's life...

Henry Skinner's wife protests death penalty

Posted on March 20, 2010
Henry Skinner is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday, March 24th. Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, Henry's wife traveled to Austin on Thursday to join a protest with about 100 other people on the Capitol steps, in a protest against the death penalty in Texas...

After Stevens - What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader?

Posted on March 15, 2010
Supreme Court Justices are remembered for their opinions, but they are revealed by their questions. For many years, Sandra Day O?Connor chose to open the questioning in most cases, and thus show the lawyers?and her colleagues?which way she, as the Court?s swing vote, was leaning...

The Death Penalty is Dying

Posted on February 28, 2010
February 28, 2010Mike FarrellActor, M*A*S*H and ProvidencePosted: February 27, 2010 09:38 PMThe Death Penalty is DyingAs president of the board of Death Penalty Focus, an abolition organization, I find myself discussing executions a lot.Whether to kill a person who commits a violent crime is a thorny question for some, I know, so I don't mind talking about it...

Ohio on pace for execution state record Single-drug injection used for third time

Posted on February 28, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010By Andrew Welsh-Huggins | ASSOCIATED PRESSLUCASVILLE, Ohio | After a relative lull in the number of executions Ohiocarries out annually, it appears poised to sharply increase lethal injectionsin the months to come, possibly setting a state record for the most in a year...

Debate Brewing Over Supreme Court Change To Miranda Rights

Posted on February 28, 2010
By Troy Kehoe (tkehoe@wsbt.com)SOUTH BEND ? A drastic change to a well known U.S. law could give police across America a new tool in the fight against crime. A 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision revises a 30-year-old ruling on what's known as "Miranda Rights...

Iraq's European allies call for halt to death penalty

Posted on February 17, 2010
GENEVA ? Britain, France and Italy on Tuesday called on Iraq to halt use of the death penalty, expressing concern at a growth in the number of executions in the past two years.However, Iraq told the UN Human Rights Council that it had not been in a position to abolish capital punishment "because of the severity and intensity of terrorist crimes" and their huge civilian toll...

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