Category Archives: Death Penalty
The Trump Administration Resurrects the Federal Death Penalty
In a July 25, 2019 press release, the U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) announced that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the U.S. Bureau…
Texas Senators Refuse to Prevent Executions of Intellectually Disabled
Texas is a death penalty state; in fact, it has executed more people than any other state since the reinstatement of the death penalty…
Facing Shortage, Texas Uses Mislabeled/Unapproved Drugs for Executions
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…
Memory Loss Does Not Preclude Execution
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…
The Supreme Court: Justice Gone Wild
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…
Texas Prevented from Executing Intellectually Disabled Man
The term “mental retardation” was formally changed to “intellectual disability” in the Federal Register on August 31, 2013. This formal terminology adjustment began in…
Cruel and Unusual: Growing Old on Death Row
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.…
Texas Halts Execution of An Intellectually Disabled Person
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…
Texas Wants to Fast-Track Executions
In 1996, Congress enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”) which expedited habeas corpus appeals by state death penalty inmates.…
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