Category Archives: Death Penalty
The Legally Flawed Execution of Tracy Lane Beatty
On November 9, 2022, the State of Texas executed 61-year-old Tracy Lane Beatty. He was the 577th person put to death by lethal injection…
Fundamentally Unfair Trial Good Enough to Send Man to Death Chamber
On May 31, 2009, 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado was found dead in an Austin, Texas, apartment she shared with her mother and sister. She had…
Courts Allow Botched Executions, License to Torture
On July 29, 2022, Joe Nathan Jones, Jr. was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. in the death chamber at a prison in southern Alabama.…
DA Kim Ogg’s Politics of Executions
After her November 2016 election as district attorney of Harris County, Kim Ogg said she would reduce the use of the death penalty with…
Which Federal Crimes Can Cost You Your Life?
The death penalty is generally a state matter. Until the thirteen executionswere carried out during the Trump presidency, there had not been a federal…
Texas Executes 78-Year-Old Carl Wayne Buntion
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…
Pending Execution of Melissa Lucio Rests with Greg Abbott
On February 17, 2007, paramedics in Harlingen, Texas, responded to a call at an apartment shared by Melissa Lucio and her husband, Robert Alvarez.…
Punishment: When is it Cruel and Unusual?
The death penalty is the ultimate punishment imposed in the American criminal justice system. One hundred eight countries have completely abolished the death penalty,…
Criminal Justice Reforms Face Political Fear Mongering
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 Ralph Northam signed a Democratic-sponsored legislative bill into law that repealed the state’s death penalty—the 23rd such…
Dead Man Walking Because of Sleeping Lawyer
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…
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