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Judge questions Ashcroft's decision to seek death penalty for convicted mob boss
A federal district judge Friday questioned a decision by US Attorney General John Ashcroft to seek the death penalty for convicted mob boss Joseph Massino. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New Yor (More) |
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WA Supreme Court overturns death sentence due to jury prejudice
The Washington state Supreme Court has overturned a death sentence, ruling that the jury may have been prejudiced by the sight of ankle shackles on the defendant, Cecil E. Davis. Davis was convicted of murdering a 65-year-old neighbor, but the court (More) |
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DC sniper's lawyers argue against death sentence in Virginia high court
Lawyers for convicted DC sniper John Allen Muhammad have told the Virginia Supreme Court that Muhammad cannot be sentenced to death because he did not pull the trigger in the 2002 killings. As reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, Muhammad received (More) |
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Maybe Death Isn't So Different
JURIST Guest Columnist LTC John M. Bickers, a law professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, says that two recent decisions regarding the death penalty show that the Supreme Court seems to accept capital sentencing as a punishment, as long a (More) |
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Ohio death penalty ruling [6th Circuit]
Davis v. Mitchell, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, February 4, 2003 . Read the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here (More) |
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Maryland death penalty race-bias report [U. Maryland]
An Empirical Analysis of Maryland's Death Sentencing System with Respect to the Influence of Race and Legal Jurisdiction, University of Maryland, Professor Raymond Paternoster and Professor Robert Brame, January 2003 . Read the full text of the (More) |
Women lawyers allowed to practice before US Supreme Court
On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed legislation allowing women to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to practice under the new law on March 3, 1879.
Learn more about Belva Lockwood.
