The Journal Star reports here that the state’s high court will not reconsider its decision that electrocution is unconstitutional. In February, the court ruled electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment when considering the…
Category: Capital Punishment
The Death Penalty Information Center discusses two reports released this week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California on the high costs of California’s death penalty system. The…
The Times-Dispatch of Richmond, Virginia has this article today: “Governor Kaine postpones Bell execution; Executions will be stayed till U.S. high court rules in lethal-injection case.” Here are the highlights: Gov. Timothy M. Kaine granted a…
This term, the nation’s high Court will consider the constitutionality of lethal injection, the means of execution currently used by most states and whether capital punishment is an appropriate sentence…