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Deandra Grant Law – Texas Criminal Defense & DWI Defense
Melissa Lucio: A Judge Said Innocent. The Court Said No.
The short answer: In February 2007, Melissa Lucio’s two-year-old daughter Mariah died in Harlingen. Lucio said Mariah had fallen down a steep outdoor staircase two days earlier. After hours of…
Deandra Grant Law – Texas Criminal Defense & DWI Defense
Justin Wolfe: 25 Years on the Triggerman’s Word
The short answer: In March 2001, Owen Barber shot and killed Daniel Petrole, a marijuana supplier, in Bristow, Virginia. Barber avoided a capital murder charge by testifying that his friend…
JURIST
US Supreme Court declines to review rejection of 9/11 defendants’ plea agreements
By JURIST Staff
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal from plea agreements that would have spared three men accused of plotting the…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Public Execution Helps the Terrorists
I have written about the terrible attack at Ft. Hood a few times. see my prior posts here and here. Nadal Hasan is a killer motivated by some sort of…
Althouse
"If Hegseth were not a musclebound intellectual void, he would know this."
By Ann Althouse
"He would know that the Fort Hood killer told the mental health panel that he wanted to die. He would know his standby lawyers told the judge he was not…
Simple Justice
The Spectacle, The Message, The Disgrace Of A Public Execution
Of all the people who should be executed, few would defend Nidal Malik Hasan. But regardless of your views on capital punishment, which seemed on the verge of being mercifully…
JURIST
Amnesty International says death penalty reforms leave Singapore isolated in Southeast Asia
By Ellie Cho | U. Ottawa Faculty Of Law, CA
Amnesty International on Thursday said a growing number of Southeast Asian states are cutting back on the death penalty, creating new momentum towards abolition in a region long known for…
PrawfsBlog
Public Executions and the 1st Amendment
The Pentagon’s proposal to livestream an execution by firing squad may have First Amendment implications. Courts have steadfastly rejected claims by the media that they have a constitutional right to…
Deandra Grant Law – Texas Criminal Defense & DWI Defense
A Firing Squad at Fort Hood
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Verfassungsblog
Firing Squads and Botched Executions
By Austin Sarat
On Monday, October 5, President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, an American soldier who, in 2009, killed 13 of his colleagues at Fort Hood,…