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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.
Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, ruling that criminal defendants sentenced to death may not be executed if they do not understand the reason for their imminent execution, and that once the state has set an execution date death-row inmates may litigate their competency to be executed in habeas corpus proceedings. [1]
James Liebman, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, stated in 1996 that his study found that when habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases were traced from conviction to completion of the case, there was "a 40 percent success rate in all capital cases from 1978 to 1995". [163]
Yet when I covered a death penalty case of a young man accused of killing a beloved area restaurant owner, execution wasn’t a slam dunk for me. Seated directly behind the defendant, I could see ...
The Department of Defense under Biden has moved to scuttle plea deals that would prevent a death penalty case against the alleged 9/11 plotters, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammad (AP2003)
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 ...
American filmmaker James Benning covered the aftermath of the murder in his 1987 documentary Landscape Suicide. [9]In 1994, the events of the story were used as inspiration for a television movie entitled A Friend to Die For (also known as Death of a Cheerleader), with Tori Spelling as Stacy Lockwood and Kellie Martin as Angela Delvecchio.
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