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On May 25, 2010, Time published an article about the case: "In death penalty case, innocence has to matter". [ 76 ] On June 10, 2010, Politics Daily published a report of recent interviews of former jurors at Skinner's trial, which states "Many of the jurors interviewed were taken aback by the amount of untested evidence, stunned that even the ...
Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.
Phillip Dean Hancock (February 15, 1964 – November 30, 2023) was an American convicted murderer who killed a total of three people between 1982 and 2001. In 1982, Hancock was charged with fatally shooting a drug trafficker, Charles Lester Warren, which he claimed was a killing done in self-defense, and he was subsequently given a four-year jail term for first-degree manslaughter. 19 years ...
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Moore’s case is a clear “outlier” and a “disproportionate” application of the death penalty, said South Carolina Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn, in a dissent to a 2022 ruling upholding ...
A death penalty case that brings up issues of bias inherent within Kentucky’s death penalty system. | Your Feb. 27 Daily Briefing.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
The Alameda County District Attorney's office was ordered by a federal judge to review more than 30 death penalty cases after Black and Jewish jurors were purposefully excluded in the conviction ...