Topic
Execution Protocol
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio Gov extends state's unofficial moratorium on executions
Not all that long ago, Ohio was one of the busiest states not named Texas when it came to carrying out executions. Specifically, between 2002 and 2013, the Buckeye State…
Criminal
Will “outcry” over ugly details of latest Oklahoma execution impact its plans to have six more in coming months?
The question in the title of this post is prompted by the first word of the headline, and then the last sentence of the body, of this new Guardian piece:…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court Grants Review On Role Of Spiritual Advisor In Execution Chamber
In Ramirez v. Collier, (5th Cir., Sept. 6, 2021), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, by a vote of 2-1, affirmed a Texas federal district court's refusal to grant…
Other
SCOTUS denies, by 7-2 vote, cert petition from federal death row defendants challenging federal execution protocol
As reported in this AP article, the "Supreme Court on Monday refused to block the execution of four federal prison inmates who are scheduled to be put to death in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal judge halts pending scheduled federal executions based on contention that planned execution protocol “exceeds statutory authority”
As explained in this Politico article, a federal district "judge has blocked the scheduled executions of four federal death row inmates, effectively freezing the Trump administration’s effort to resume imposing…
Death Penalty
How Does Florida Execute People? Florida’s 2019 Lethal Injection Protocol
By Reba Kennedy
States may overwhelmingly choose the lethal injection method of execution these days, but that doesn't mean that the same procedure is followed or the same drugs are used. Consider and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Struggling with an execution protocol, Ohio Gov DeWine delays execution scheduled for Sept 2019 to May 2020
This morning I reported in this post about the discussion and difficulties surrounding Ohio's execution protocol, a matter which needed to be worked out quickly if the state was going…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio officials apparently seeking to avoid any paper trail as it tries to reboot its machinery of death
It has been a full quarter century since Justice Harry Blackmun famously stated in Callins v. Collins, 510 U.S. 1141 (1994), that he would "no longer tinker with the machinery…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Oklahoma Gov grants 37-day “stay” of Richard Glossip’s scheduled execution
Main September 30, 2015Oklahoma Gov grants 37-day "stay" of Richard Glossip's scheduled execution As detailed in this official press release, "Governor Mary Fallin has issued a 37 day stay of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Delays Execution Until Condemned Gets Information
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Ninth Circuit on Saturday ordered the delay of a scheduled execution until the condemned prisoner gets information about the two-drug cocktail that Arizona…