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Oklahoma statute books still provide the death penalty for first-degree rape, extortionate kidnapping, and rape or forcible sodomy of a victim under 14 where the defendant had a prior conviction of sexual abuse of a person under 14 [6] [7] [8] but the death penalty for these crimes is no longer constitutional since the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ...
Possession is considered a petty crime and is not usually punishable by prison time. However, in cases where assault occurs with the knife, there is a penalty of up to 2 years prison or up to a ¥300,000 fine. Following the 2008 Akihabara Knife Incident, Japan's knife laws were revised. All knives regardless of blade length are prohibited from ...
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988), was the first case since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in the United States in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a minor on grounds of "cruel and unusual punishment." [1] The holding in Thompson was expanded on by Roper v.
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Oklahoma last week began what many are viewing as a state-sanctioned onslaught on its incarcerated population — executing its first death row inmate out of an unprecedented 25 inmates scheduled ...
Oklahoma, the Supreme Court threw away William Wayne Thompson's death sentence due to it being cruel and unusual punishment, as he was 15 years old at the time of the crime he committed; the judgment established that "evolving standards of decency" made it inappropriate to apply the death penalty for people under 16 years old at the time of ...
State capital cases, or death penalty proceedings, cost state taxpayers 3.2 times more than noncapital cases on average, according to the 2017 study of the Oklahoma death penalty. More revealing ...
The Supreme Court takes up a death row inmate's claim his conviction is unsound in a case where the state attorney general conceded testimony was problematic.