Lethal Injection and abolitionists
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- Published on Sunday, 22 June 2014 11:26
Death penalty opponents are making capital punishment more gruesome
juveniles justice
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:47
Forfeiture
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 09:25
What civil asset forfeiture means
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/economist-explains-7
Fighting crime through superior steak
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/10/asset-forfeiture?fsrc=explainsdig
A truck in the dock
How the police can seize your stuff when you have not been proven guilty of anything
http://www.economist.com/node/16219747?fsrc=explainsdig
In most states the police can seize property they suspect has been used to commit a crime. Under "civil asset forfeiture" laws, they typically do not have to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that a crime was committed, or even charge anyone with an offence.
Robocops
How America's police armed itself to the teeth
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarisation of America's Police Forces.
By Radley Balko. PublicAffairs; 382 pages; $27.99.
Big Brother Takes the T-Bird Away
http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/12/big-brother-takes-the-t-bird-a
The name of the case says a lot: State of New Jersey v. One 1990 Ford Thunderbird.
The Thunderbird was not available for comment.
PA Juvelies lwop
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 18:41
Philadelphia Inquirer 9 June 2014
Pennsylvania has more inmates convicted as juveniles for murder and sentenced to life without parole than any other place in the world.
Non-unanimous American Juries
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 April 2014 15:27
Non-unanimous American Juries
A felony jury is typically an unanimous twelve persons panel1.
But in Oregon and Louisiana the verdict can be 10-22.
In Florida and Connecticut a felony jury is always a six unanimous persons board3-4.
Everywhere a first degree murder trial needs an unanimous twelve persons jury, but in Oregon a 11-1 verdict is still admitted5.
A capital jury is always a twelve jurors unanimous for the verdict, but sentence can be different6.
In Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia the sentence is province of the jury even in non-capital felonies7.
For misdemeanors a twelve unanimous jury is not common because it is usually a six persons jury, or 7 in Virginia, 8 in Utah, Arizona and Ohio, with some notable exception8.
In a civil case the twelve unanimous members juries can be found rarely (Alabama) because they normally vote 9-3 or 10-2 when they are not 9, 8 or 6 members: 7 in Virginia, California, Oregon, Texas and even 4 in Utah.
The size of grand juries is also shrinking. Federal grand juries are composed by 16 – 23 members but state grand juries can be of 6 persons in Indiana and 7 in Virginia, Oregon, Iowa, when in California the size changes according to the population of the county.
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- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Executing Those Who Do Not Kill
- At the Supreme Court Is GPS tracking of suspects too Orwellian?
- Wrongly jailed Harvey man released after almost 20 years
- Are Blood Alcohol Tests Credible?
- Fix breakdowns that let fugitives escape justice
- Three Trials for Murder
- Court considers delayed death penalty case
- Los Angeles County Jail Overcrowding Reduction Project: Final report
- Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
- Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied
- UN says 3,500 dead so far in Syria uprising
- Supreme Court to weigh juveniles life sentences without parole
- Taxpayers Pay Billions for Dysfunctional Criminal Justice but Senator Webb Offers Hope
- Argument preview The Court and the DA - again
- Under the US Supreme Court Plea bargains, through a glass darkly
- Why Michigan has more juvenile life sentences than almost any other state
- 2011 Global Study on Homicide
- Bought Justice and the Supreme Court
- Death penalty defendant who has awaited trial since 2005 takes challenge to top Ga. court
- Eyewitnesses and the Constitution
- How Much Bad Lawyering Is Allowed?
- Convictions vacated in 91 rape slaying of Dixmoor girl
- The Death Penalty Questionable Evidence for Deterrence
- Lessons on Jail Overcrowding:
- Across the border, beyond the law
- Latest Dallas exoneration stems from recantation, withheld evidence
- Justices Hear Arguments in Faulty Lawyer Cases
- The Cost of Death
- Supreme Court to take another look at prosecutorial misconduct
- Lifelong Death Sentences
- Some states rethink felony property crimes
- Less Than Meets the Eye
- Voting Against Judicial Independence
- Judges Are for Sale and Special Interests Are Buying
- Forensic Science Panel Recommends Arson Probe
- Falling Crime Teeming Prisons
- The murder that might never be solved:
- Judicial elections, corporate policies give glimpse into 2012
- The Central Park Jogger Case A Lesson on Wrongful Convictions
- Death Row in Pennsylvania
- City rape investigations questioned
- We’ve had enough of courthouse cronyism
- In life and death cases, costly mistakes
- Immunity and Impunity in Elite America
- State budget cuts clog criminal justice system
- Missing evidence is among military crime lab's new problems
- William Hochul puts death penalty to frequent test
- Black people blatantly excluded from Alabama juries, lawsuit claims
- Man tries to rebuild life after serving time for crime he says he didn’t commit
- New Orleans Man Wrongly Incarcerated for 30 Years Exonerated of Rape that New DNA Evidence Proves He Didn't Commit
- An investigation gone very wrong
- Orleans Man Wrongly Incarcerated for 30 Years Exonerated of Rape that New DNA Evidence Proves He Didn’t Commit
- When Should a Child Be Charged as an Adult?
- Our Broken System of Criminal Justice
- Counting Costs in Criminal Justice
- For Profit Prisons: A Barrier to Serious Criminal Justice Reform
- Here are 159 minor things DC officers can arrest you for
- Crimes. Courts And Cures
- The Geography of the Death Penalty
- the Morton case
- Gallup October 13 2009
- Report says Pa failing the poor in courts
- Death penalty appeal draws giggles in the court of last resort
- It s Time to Stop Bullying Judges
- Cost to taxpayers high in death penalty cases
- NY Prison Population's Dramatic Drop
- That Could Have Been Me An Evening With Five Innocent Men Nearly Executed
- The New York Miracle
- When Fairness and the Law Collide, One Jurist Is Troubled
- Ex Prosecutor Now a Judge Accused of Hiding Exculpatory Evidence
- David Wayne Spence Innocent and Executed?
- Unreliable eyewitnesses put defendants on death row
- An open and shut case vs an innocent man:
- A Broken System California and the Failed Death Penalty Experiment
- Gallup October 13 2009
- The Best Work a Prosecutor Could Do?
- In Perry Texas a Well Connected DA with a Knack for Blocking New Evidence
- New Libya ’stained’ by detainee abuse
- Death row America's torture chamber
- Four men hope DNA will overturn 1994 murder convictions
- Nation’s Jails Struggle With Mentally Ill Prisoners
- The Sacrifice of Unarmed Prisoners to Gladiators:
- The Illusory Right to Counsel
- UN Finds ‘Systematic’ Torture in Afghanistan
- The death penalty in Belarus: families’ painful wait
- Blacks Three Times As Likely As Whites to Be Searched in Traffic Stops
- Prosecutor: Troy Davis appeals driven by 'doubt campaign' rather than truth
- Michael Moore corporate crime claim mostly true
- Repeal of death penalty could save millions of dollars, analysis finds
- Are handcuffs included in shackling ban for pregnant jail inmates?
- Amnesty International Releases Death Sentences and Executions 2010
- Justice for Cory Maples
- Hostages of child prostitution
- Michael Morton's lawyers aim to prove misconduct
- Morton free; now State Bar must act
- Punishing Pregnancy
- Executions by County
- Texas to Condemned Man: Execution First, DNA Later
- Three men walk free on a historic day for US justice
- In Cory Maples Case Scalia Is Only Justice to OK Capital Punishment Despite Mailroom Mix Up
- Hot Coffee Spills Out the Case Against Tort Reform
- Afghanistan: Don't trade away women's rights
- plea bargain by Gross
- DA evidence should exonerate 7 men convicted in '90s, top lawyers say
- Morton expected to be freed today after 25 years
- Unsealed trial file suggests misconduct by Williamson County officials, lawyers claim
- Syria: Campaign to silence protesters overseas revealed
- A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising
- No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration
- Appeals of Civil Trials Concluded in 2005
- Can jail time slash crime by homeless?
- South Korea’s 5,000th day without an execution an opportunity for abolition
- China's debate on the death penalty becomes increasingly open
- FBI seeks to update definition of rape
- On parole? Probation? Just pick up the phone to check in
- Supreme Court confronts case of death row inmate whose lawyers quit his case
- An Invitation to Overreach
- As Federal Crime List Grows Threshold of Guilt Declines
- Federal Rules on Rape Statistics Criticized
- Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors
- Committee on the Development of the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
- Could 1988 cold case in Austin help exonerate man imprisoned nearly 25 years?
- International Perspectives on Wrongful Convictions: Workshop Report, September 2010
- Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions
- Report Of The Advisory Committee On Wrongful Convictions September 2011
- The High Cost of a Misdemeanor
- The Controversial Willingham Case: What Rick Perry Knew and When
- Why Death Penalty Opponents Are Closer to Their Goal Than They Realize
- Is Capital Punishment ‘Cruel and Unusual’
- My Interview With Retired Justice John Paul Stevens
- Gaile Owens granted parole
- An Indefensible Punishment
- Incendiary: The Willingham Case
- Does a sex offender live close to you?
- Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors
- Only conservatives can end the death penalty
- New doubt is cast on eyewitness testimony
- 30 years of national crime data and results might surprise you
- States look to right wrong convictions
- NC innocence inquiries stand out as execution proceeds
- The collapse of American justice
- Bob Ward Millionaire found guilty of 2nd degree murder
- Lithuania:
- Split Ninth Circuit affirms huge upward departure based on uncharged murder
- Exoneration raises more questions
- Just or Not Cost of Death Penalty Is a Killer for State Budgets
- What costs more the death penalty or life in prison?
- New evidence of Syria brutality emerges as woman's mutilated body is found
- Capital Punishment in China
- Twisted Truth A Prosecutor Under Fire
- Families of Bloody Sunday Victims to be Compensated
- Arrest in the United States, 1980-2009
- Rein in Forfeiture Power
- Alice-in-Wonderland justice
- Distinguishing the Innocent Not an Easy Task
- Troy Davis And Lawrence Brewer A Tale Of Two Executions
- Two Windows into Innocence
- Why death penalty supporters should be campaigning for Troy Davis to be reprieved
- The city of Jasper still copes with racial tensions 13 years after dragging death
- Death and the maiden
- Violent crime falls again why some experts are stumped
- Collateral Crisis in Somalia
- Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in US data show
- Minority Overrepresentation in Criminal Justice Systems
- A Test of the Simultaneous vs. Sequential Lineup Methods
- Fort Worth man sentenced to life in Walmart shoplifting case
- Tribal Rights vs Racial Justice
- Judge sends Medicare offender to prison for 50 years
- Woman I was arrested for sitting outside in chair
- Japon : un vieil homme dans le couloir de la mort
- Criminal Victimization, 2010
- Dangerous Jails
- Prisons Often Shackle Pregnant Inmates in Labor
- Chained and Pregnant
- The battle for Libya: Killings, disappearances and torture
- Jim Webb's Last Crusade
- Thanks to Willingham inquiry old arson cases getting a new look
- Rethinking the death penalty
- Executed Taiwan airman Chiang Kuo ching innocent
- Prison officials are set to let some female inmates out early
- Ohio death penalty derailed
- How US firms profited from torture flights
- One and done
- Crime Lab Confidential
- Lawsuit accuses state of Colorado of long delays in providing mental health evaluations
- Forgetting Afghanistan women
- Boy 12 acquitted of murdering 6-year-old brother
- What Rick Perry Wasn't Asked About the Death Penalty
- Boulder judge approves first degree murder charge in fatal wreck
- Ohio top judge calls for death penalty review
- Willingham probe fosters review of other arson cases
- Advocates Urge Panel to Continue Willingham Probe
- Texas forensics panel may close book on arson case
- Don’t Let Georgia Kill Troy Davis
- Death Row USA 1,1,11
- After 17 years, three strikes law is still hotly debated
- Indefinite solitary confinement persists in California prisons
- Hank Skinner Seeks DNA Testing Under New Law
- The Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham
- Mentally ill defendants wait too long for treatment
- Inmate Visits Now Carry Added Cost in Arizona
- The Secret History of Guns
- Nation’s Jails Struggle With Mentally Ill Prisoners
- Cost cutting the death penalty
- American Bar seeking rules on when judges must step aside from cases
- Twisted Truth A Prosecutor Under Fire
- Will Rick Perry put an innocent man to death?
- Prosecution Without Representation
- From jury box to electric chair
- Don’t Blame Perry for Texas’s Execution Addiction.
- Florida cops water down Innocence Commission lineup recommendations
- Injustice, In Plain Sight
- The “Missing White Woman Syndrome”
- Mother shackled during labor claims crime victim status
- Oklahoma Women in prison
- Fatal Judgement
- The Military and the Death Penalty
- Greensburg mom speaks out about 1995 arson murder conviction
- Mark Rabil calls for restoring fairness to SBI lab
- Woman who gave birth in jail begins trial against county
- Street people chafe under Nevada City's new anti loitering law
- kids for cash?
- Is Rick Perry Ready to Execute an Innocent Man?
- Convicted murderer's lawyer never told about witness who says he is innocent
- Bad Blood at the Dallas County Crime Lab
- Two Decades of Research About Violence Against Women
- Police Lineups Start to Face Fact: Eyes Can Lie
- Reasonable Doubt and the Strauss Kahn Case
- Under the US Supreme Court: Just how fair does justice have to be?
- "I Am Guilty, But Innocent": Does This Make Any Sense?
- Iran 1980s
- The Trials of Darryl Hunt
- Military Justice
- Overcriminalization
- American Prison Culture in an International Context
- Bargained Justice
- Libya: Pursuing al-Gaddafi – the legal questions answered
- West Memphis Three case shows we see what we expect to see
- The Death Penalty Today
- Salvadoran war crime suspect arrested in Mass.
- Accused boy faces juvenile trial
- The West Memphis Three and combating cognitive biases
- Did prosecutors taint Memphis murder trial?
- Convicting the Innocent
- 34 Years Later Supreme Court Will Revisit Eyewitness Ids
- Texas man gets 220 year state sentence for kiddie porn possession (and uncharged child rapes)
- Stacked sentences is it fair?
- Mass Graves Hold Thousands, Kashmir Inquiry Finds
- Hearings will allow closer look into death penalty cases
- Sentencing disparities in child-sex-assault cases point to double standard
- A Study in Judicial Dysfunction
- The West Memphis Three and the Urgent Need for Criminal Justice Reform
- Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence
- Kentucky kids age 10 and younger routinely face criminal charges
- They can’t drink, they can’t vote, they can’t drive, but they can get life.
- Some Texas parolees freed of sex offender label
- Trend to Lighten Harsh Sentences Catches On in Conservative States
- Philadelphia curefew crackdown: About 50 teens arrested
- Imposition of the Death Penalty Varies Wildly Within States
- Tarrant County DA decision in Kevan Dunlop murder case raises questions
- King County death penalty dilemma: Soaring cost worth it?
- Convicted felons allowed to go free until sentencing; now, they're on the lam
- False confessions
- How many arsonists are innocent?
- Adversarial Inquisitions
- Remedying Wrongful Execution
- Capital punishment remains expensive and inconsistent
- Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2008
- State Prosecutors' Offices with Jurisdiction in Indian Country, 2007
- Jails in Indian Country, 2009
- With nowhere to go, sex offenders file suit
- Saudi beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia
- Judge in Pa 'kids for cash' case faces sentencing
- The deterrence of the American death penalty ends with the Millennium Bug.
- US Supreme Court to hear Alabama man's mail error Death Row case
- Kahler trial costs Osage County big bucks
- In Murder Case, Science May Get Its Day in Court
- State toughens policy of restoring rights to freed felons
- Paying for the death penalty
- Judge to allow new testimony
- A Hazy Connection Between Hot Weather And Crime
- The death penalty: A dead end in Florida
- Texas Ruling Ends Inquiry in Death Penalty Case
- Black and busted in Dane County
- Birmingham area cold cases heat up with DNA
- Hijacked by the hanging lobby
- USA: regional murder rates
- Prison sentences in insider trading cases
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- Taiwan’s Death-Penalty Debate Could Influence AsiaThe ongoing debate in Taiwan about capital punishment could influence China and its other East Asian neighbors, according to a report from human-rights organization Dui Hua Foundation.
- Gabe Watson Australian honeymoon murder case could end after hearing
- Appeals court revives Blackwater shooting case
- Graham Law would replace life without parole for juveniles
- Freed from death row, speaker decries capital punishment
- Texas ex-offenders are denied job licenses
- Justice, too much and too expensive
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