Terry Lenamon continues his death penalty defense in the capital case involving Markeith Loyd, a case that is being followed closely by the Florida news media.  Markeith Loyd stands accused of two homicides, one his ex-girlfriend (Sade Dixon) and the other, Orlando police officer Debra Clayton.   The State of Florida is seeking the death penalty in both cases. It is a case that has been a media focus since December 2016 when there was a…

There may be some who are offended a bit by John Oliver’s discourse in this video (it’s HBO, after all), but his discussion of the current lethal injection method of execution in this country is so important that hopefully, those folk will still watch through to the very end. He’s right on point about this: injecting humans with these drugs in order to kill them is not the peaceful send-off that much of the general…

Terence Lenamon has filed the following three motions in the Markeith Loyd death penalty trial.  No hearing date as yet. For more information, see “Markeith Loyd seeks to combine murder trials, delay trial start to April,” written by Emelee Speck and published by ClickOrlando on August 2, 2019:        …

Surely prosecutors who seek the death penalty as part of their job must be proponents of capital punishment, right?  Well, maybe not.  Out of Arizona comes a memoir from an experienced prosecutor named Rick Unklesbay. For over 35 years,  Mr. Unklesbay has sat at the state’s table in the courtroom, prosecuting serious felonies and homicide cases.  He has successfully sent 16 defendants to Arizona’s Death Row.  Today, he is in charge of a state task…

There was a lot of hoopla when California Governor Gavin Newsom signed his executive order that stopped executions in the Golden State.  For details, check out our earlier discussion, which includes a link to the full text of Governor Newsom’s order. Thing is, as a recent article in the Sacramento Bee points out, things haven’t changed as the Governor expected — or as many argued would be the result of his Moratorium.   The Moratorium…

Should current law apply when an appeals court reviews the evidence of mitigating factors and aggravating conditions in a death penalty case?  What about if the case was tried years – even decades – before the appellate review takes place?  Does the court look at current law, or go back to find the law in place at the time of the sentencing phase of the capital trial? If you think you know the answers to…

For those who have access to the REELZ channel, there is a new docu-series hosted by Deborah Norville dealing with certain high-profile cases where the defendant was sentenced to die for his (or her) crimes and ultimately executed. Saturday (June 29, 2019) will have all six episodes of the series’ first season, starting at 1:00 pm EST.  (A second season has been green-lighted.) Executed With Deborah Norville “Executed with Deborah Norville” describes itself as:…