In a January 28, 2020 post titled “Is Arkansas Governor Responsible for Execution of Innocent Man,” we pointed to the fact that Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who has a bloodthirsty penchant for the death penalty, sent four men to their…
Category: Death Penalty
Dec.17
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Capital Crimes | Death Penalty
A capital felony is the most severe felony you can face in Texas. While carrying out death sentences has actually decreased in recent years, the federal government under the Trump administration, led by outgoing Attorney General William Barr, has accelerated…
Nov.28
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Capital Crimes | Corruption | Death Penalty
For nearly a hundred years, Mitchell Palmer was considered one of the worst U.S. Attorney Generals in American history. He was appointed and confirmed as A.G. in March 1919. The author of the nation’s first Red Scare, Palmer’s nearly two-year…
July19
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Constitutional Law | Death Penalty
The federal government’s July 14, 2020 execution of Daniel Lewis Lee in the federal penal facility at Terre Haute, Indiana—the first and only execution during the pandemic crisis sweeping the nation—was not only a shameful affront to the decency of…
July03
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Death Penalty | SCOTUS
Defending a person charged in a serious criminal case, under the best of circumstances, is a difficult task and an extraordinary professional responsibility. Defending a death penalty case under any circumstance is much more arduous and requires years of commitment…
Feb.02
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Twenty-two condemned men were put to death in the U.S. in 2019. All but two of the executions were carried out in former Confederate States of America.
Southern states, especially those with historical ties to the Confederacy, have always…
Jan.28
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Since the U.S. Supreme Court gave its constitutional blessing to the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, the state of Arkansas has executed 30 males and 1 female. Thirty of those 31 executions were carried out by lethal injections…
Dec.30
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
There are roughly 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S. prison system.
In 2018, the Chicago Tribune reported that anywhere from 2 to 10 percent of those people are innocent. This estimate means that between 46,000 and 230,000 innocent…
Nov.10
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Death Penalty
The Death Penalty Information Center reports that since 1973, 166 people who had been wrongly convicted in American courtrooms and sentenced to death have been exonerated.
The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty informs that of the 565…
Sep.19
2019
2019
Texas executed its first prisoner with a single dose of pentobarbital on July 18, 2012. His name was Yokamon Hearn. He was 19 years old when he and three co-defendants kidnapped and killed a man in Dallas, Texas. He was…
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