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Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the reinstatement of the death penalty in that state in 1977. James Marlow was also sentenced to death. In 2005, Coffman's petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. [20] Kerry Lyn Dalton
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.
Uttecht v. Brown, 551 U.S. 1 (2007), was a case dealing with jury selection in capital cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that appeals courts must defer to a trial judge's decision on whether a potential juror would be able to overcome demur about capital punishment and be open to voting to impose a death sentence.
He strangled the women within hours of each other on October 6, 2019 in Cape Coral. The jury voted in favor of the death penalty 9-3 in Melton’s case, and 10-2 in Ruiz’s murder. In Florida ...
The women worked at CresCom, a Conway bank where Council robbed and shot the two women. Biden commuted Council’s sentence from the death penalty to life in prison, according to an announcement ...
Indiana followed Florida in 1977 and enacted a similar death penalty scheme in which the jury's sentence recommendation was not binding. There were no directions on when the judge could override the jury's life sentence until 1989, when the Indiana Supreme Court held that the override was permitted only when "virtually no reasonable person could disagree that death was appropriate".
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 ...
Kelly Renée Gissendaner (née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia.Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997).