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Indonesia court sentences drug smugglers to death
The West Jakarta District Court of Indonesia sentenced two drug smugglers to death after the National Narcotics Agency found them trafficking methamphetamine into the country. The 1,900 pound shipment was the largest quantity of meth ever confiscate (More) |
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Federal appeals court rejects California death penalty challenge
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that had held that California's death penalty system was unconstitutional . The appeals court held that the excessive delay between sentencing and execution (More) |
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Does America Need A Children's Bill of Rights?
JURIST guest columnist Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law discusses the Children's Bill of Rights... Earlier this month, three House Democrats in the US Congress introduced a resolution calling for the establishment of a Childre (More) |
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California Governor introduces proposal for single-drug lethal injection protocol
California Governor Jerry Brown , on Friday, introduced a proposal for a single-drug execution process. The new protocol would replace the existing three-drug execution protocol. The state would be allowed to determine one of four drugs to use on a (More) |
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Supreme Court puts Missouri execution on hold
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday night halted the execution of Missouri death row inmate Ernest Johnson pending the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Johnson's appeal. Johnson's attorney argues that his client will suff (More) |
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Innocence, Experimentation and Executions in Oklahoma and Beyond
JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law discusses the controversy surrounding Richard Eugene Glossip's Oklahoma death penalty sentence... The recent activity surrounding the scheduled execution of O (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments on racial discrimination in jury selection
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on racial discrimination in the jury selection process. In Foster v. Chatman [transcript, PDF; JURIST report], the court must decide whether the "Georgia courts err in failing to recognize race discriminati (More) |
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Federal judge rejects challenge to firing squad execution
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Utah on Friday denied an appeal by 74-year-old death row inmate Ron Lafferty to place a hold on his federal case to challenge his execution by firing squad. Lafferty is one of the longest-servin (More) |
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King v. Burwell: ACA Destruction Denied, ACA Expansion Enabled
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Thieme Sanford of University of Washington School of Law discusses the decisive impact of the most recent Supreme Court ACA decision on the Marketplaces and also on state decisions regarding Medicaid expansion. She argu (More) |
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Florida death row inmate requests electric chair
A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Corrections on Thursday said that a death row inmate has requested death by electrocution for the first time in nearly twenty years. The inmate, Wayne Doty, was sentenced [Tampa Bay Times report] to death (More) |
Sirhan convicted of assassinating RFK
On April 17, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison after the Supreme Court of California overturned the death penalty in the state.
