Texas is a death penalty state; in fact, it has executed more people than any other state since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Many of the 561 people put to death by the state since the 1982…
Category: Death Penalty
May27
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Death Penalty
Pentobarbital: Texas’s drug of choice in carrying out its lethal injection executions.
Texas was the first state in 1982 to use a lethal three-drug protocol to execute people. The three-drug protocol, which was eventually adopted by most other states,…
May05
2019
2019
Mental Health America estimates that 5 to 10 percent of the nation’s 2700 death row inmates suffer from some form mental illness.
In August 2006, the American Bar Association through Resolution 122A said that an individual on death row…
Apr.04
2019
2019
The U.S. Supreme Court’s website speak these words about the Court’s commitment to “justice”:
“‘EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW’- These words, written above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building, express the ultimate responsibility of the Supreme Court of…
Feb.26
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Death Penalty
The term “mental retardation” was formally changed to “intellectual disability” in the Federal Register on August 31, 2013. This formal terminology adjustment began in 2007 when the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) changed its name to American Association on…
Jan.25
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The impending February 28, 2019 execution date for 70-year-old Texas condemned inmate Billie Coble underscores the issue of the nation’s aging death row population. According to the Texas Tribune, there were 224 inmates housed on Texas’s death row as of…
Jan.24
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
In 2008, Blaine Milam and Jessica Carson were 18-year-old teenagers living together in Milam’s trailer in Rusk County, Texas. Jessica had a 13-month-old child named Amora Carson. The couple met earlier that year while Jessica was still in high school.…
Apr.15
2018
2018
In 1996, Congress enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”) which expedited habeas corpus appeals by state death penalty inmates. AEDPA was designed to eliminate the delays which had thwarted states from carrying out speedy executions…
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