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Skeptics will think this is simply an attempt to delay the execution. But if that were the case, I think you’d be seeing many requests, the history of executions in the United States shows that people don’t make offers of organ donations for the purpose of delaying an execution that will still take place.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You don't want jurors who are substantially impaired in their ability to follow the law.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is an extremely heightened risk if you allow non-unanimous jury recommendations for death that you will end up sending innocent people to death row and executing them.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Lest there be any doubt, we hold that our state constitutions prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, article I, section 17,5 does not require a unanimous jury recommendation or any jury recommendation before a death sentence can be imposed, the court said. That ruling has placed the fate of those death row inmates navigating the resentencing process into the realm of uncertainty. There is a growing fear among experts that some of those death row inmates will have their death penalties reinstated. An execution chamber used in Florida. (Florida Department of Corrections) The question here now is going to be, What about the people that have already been told they are entitled to a resentencing hearing? can you take that away from them? Can you retroactively pull the rug out and reinsert the death penalty? Brunvand toldFox News that a motion has already been filed to reinstate the death penalty for his client. He thinks thats an injustice. I cannot imagine having been sentenced to death, having received word from the Supreme Court that the scheme is unconstitutional and youre going to get a new trial, to have lawyers start preparing for trial and then all of the sudden face the prospect that Oh, we might just send you back to death row. I cant imagine.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
No improvement in the protocol will address the fact that midazolam is an inappropriate drug to use in executions, midazolam is not capable of knocking somebody out and keeping them insensate during the period in which other drugs are administered.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
2019 came close to being the year of executing the innocent, our courts and public officials too frequently flat out ignore potentially deadly mistakes, and often take steps to obstruct the truth.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
2019 came close to being the year of executing the innocent, two prisoners were executed this year despite substantial doubts as to their guilt, and James Dailey in Florida and Rodney Reed in Texas came close to execution despite compelling evidence of innocence.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our courts and public officials too frequently flat out ignore potentially deadly mistakes, and often take steps to obstruct the truth, that is one of the reasons why public support for the death penalty continues to fall.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
All of the states that have been carrying out executions have some form of secrecy... the states initially said that this is necessary for them to obtain the drugs because drug manufacturers were being harassed, they claimed, by anti-death penalty advocates. Those allegations have all turned out to be false. But the states have continued to attempt to expand secrecy and the real reason is because the drug manufacturers themselves are opposed to the use of their medicines in executions.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What this commission (in Oklahoma) has done stands in stark contrast to what we're seeing in Arkansas.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The commission is urging that the state step back and take a careful look at the way in which it administers the death penalty to ensure that the state doesn't make mistakes.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
California has a history of driving the car in both directions at the same time.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The long-term trends both for executions and for new death sentences show the death penalty in decline. There may be from time to time bumps both up and down but the long-term trend is clear.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Both states have changed the way in which indigent capital defense is provided. Counsel makes a huge difference.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every time someone introduces a new method of execution, they make the same argument: 'Trust me. It will be quick. It will be painless. It is the most humane alternative,' they have a political or commercial interest in the outcome. And they haven't done any real medical or scientific research to back up their claims. And in every instance, sooner or later, something they didn't anticipate goes wrong.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Many of the pretrial proceedings took place under seal and some of the sidebars were under seal, we will not know until those transcripts are unsealed what other issues may be present in the case.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
One can't predict the likelihood that any given death sentence will be carried out, statistically, in both federal and state death penalty cases, it is more likely that a sentence will be overturned than that it will be carried out.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Death row is supermax, it’s extremely, highly restricted.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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