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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty | Prosecutorial Misconduct
After her November 2016 election as district attorney of Harris County, Kim Ogg said she would reduce the use of the death penalty with all its racial discrimination and unfairness.
Five and one-half years into the Ogg administration has taught…
Category: Death Penalty | Federal Criminal Law
The death penalty is generally a state matter. Until the thirteen executionswere carried out during the Trump presidency, there had not been a federal execution since 2003.
President Joe Biden stated last year that there would be no executions…
On April 21, 2022, Texas executed Carl Wayne Buntion by lethal injection. He was 78 years old—the oldest prisoner ever executed in Texas.
By the time of his execution, Buntion had been in prison two months shy of 32 years—more…
Category: Criminal Law | Death Penalty
On February 17, 2007, paramedics in Harlingen, Texas, responded to a call at an apartment shared by Melissa Lucio and her husband, Robert Alvarez. The EMTs found the couple’s two-year-old daughter, Mariah, unresponsive and, according to police reports, covered with…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The death penalty is the ultimate punishment imposed in the American criminal justice system.
One hundred eight countries have completely abolished the death penalty, while another 55 have effectively abolished it by not executing anyone over the last ten years,…
In March of 2021, Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a Democratic-sponsored legislative bill into law that repealed the state’s death penalty—the 23rd such state to take such action.
State-Sponsored Racism
Many of the lawmakers who voted for the…
Category: Corruption | Death Penalty | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The continuing march by the State of Texas to execute George Edward McFarland adds to the often-repeated phrase associated with death penalty cases, “only in Texas.”
Texas has probably executed at least ten innocent people (far more than any other…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The United States carried out seventeen executions during the pandemic year 2020. Seven of those executions were carried out by five states (Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Missouri), while the federal government carried out the remaining ten. Texas led the…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
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: 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…
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