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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Anyone eager to predict when (or if) Ohio is likely to carry out its next execution?
Main April 12, 2016Anyone eager to predict when (or if) Ohio is likely to carry out its next execution?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“How many times should a state be able to try to execute someone without running afoul of the Constitution?”
Main March 18, 2016"How many times should a state be able to try to execute someone without running afoul of the Constitution?"The question in the title of this post is…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Might Virginia go back to the electric chair to try to complete an execution scheduled for next month?
Main February 15, 2016Might Virginia go back to the electric chair to try to complete an execution scheduled for next month?The question in the title of this post is prompted…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Noting Alabama’s notable struggles to secure various execution drugs
Main January 4, 2016Noting Alabama's notable struggles to secure various execution drugsThis lengthy local article, headlined "Court records show pharmacists refused death penalty drugs," reports on the various difficulties experienced…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Arkansas state judge strikes down portion of state execution law aimed at keep drug suppliers secret
Main December 4, 2015Arkansas state judge strikes down portion of state execution law aimed at keep drug suppliers secretAs reported in this AP article, an "Arkansas judge struck down a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
California (finally!) officially announces switch to one-drug lethal injection protocol
Main November 8, 2015California (finally!) officially announces switch to one-drug lethal injection protocol California, the state with the largest death row and the seemingly most-dysfunctional and expensive capital punishment system,…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
SCOTUS stays Missouri execution pending lower court decision
Ernest Lee Johnson killed three people with a claw hammer in 1994, and he was sentenced to death for it. Since then, however, he has had surgery to remove a…
Death Penalty
Lethal Injection Drug Controversies Stop Executions in Missouri, Ohio, and Oklahoma
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Here’s the question: are controversies surrounding the drug or drugs used in lethal injection executions enough to halt capital punishment altogether? Even though there are other, legal methods of execution…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Investigating the international drug dealer working with some death penalty states
Main October 22, 2015Investigating the international drug dealer working with some death penalty statesBuzzFeed this week published this fascinating report on a curious person who has become a central figure…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio Gov Kasich extendsde factoexecution moratorium into 2017
Main October 20, 2015Ohio Gov Kasich extends de facto execution moratorium into 2017Earlier this year during SCOTUS oral argument in the Glossip lethal injection case, Justice Alito complained about what…