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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.
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Jurek v. Texas, 428 U.S. 262 (1976) Texas's new death penalty statute is constitutional because it uses a three-part test to determine if a death sentence should be imposed. Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280 (1976) North Carolina's new death penalty statute is unconstitutional because it calls for a mandatory death sentence to be imposed ...
The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...
The petitioner death row inmate had not forfeited the opportunity to argue that prosecutors withheld evidence important to his defense. Dean v. United States: 556 U.S. 568 (2009) Upheld sentence for discharging a firearm during a violent crime, Congress intended a defendant to be held strictly liable for such an offense. Flores-Figueroa v ...
Fielder’s case has been joined with the case of Hugo Villanueva-Morales, a Kansas City, Kansas, man accused of murder in a 2019 mass shooting at a KCK bar, for the death penalty hearing, the ...
Effective assistance of counsel in appeals in criminal cases Wainwright v. Witt: 469 U.S. 412 (1985) Selection of jurors in death penalty cases United States v. Maine: 469 U.S. 504 (1985) Long Island is an extension of the mainland and the bordering sounds are therefore under state regulatory control Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit ...