From The Washington Post: President Bush yesterday reached across traditional political dividing lines to sign into law a broad program that provides federal grants for assistance to ex-convicts, pointing to his…
Judgment Day Posts
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…
The USA Today has this article: The Supreme Court will weigh the constitutionality of the death penalty for child rape next week, in the case of a Louisiana man convicted of raping his…
The Providence Journal has an interesting piece today on Justice Scalia’s judicial philosophy. The article is here, and, as expected, strict construction is the theme. A few highlights: Scalia, a core…
Courtesy of How Appealing: Today’s ruling, by a unanimous three-judge Eighth Circuit panel, addresses “whether Arkansas law permits a police officer to arrest a person for refusing to identify himself when he is…
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…
Excerpts from the San Francisco Chronicle story: Lawmakers from California to Kentucky are trying to save money with a drastic and potentially dangerous budget-cutting proposal: releasing tens of thousands of convicts from…
SCOTUS blog provides this: Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Thursday turned aside a plea by California officials, and cleared the way for the release of a state prison inmate…
The LA Times provides an update on federal retroactive crack sentence reductions in California here. The article begins with the following: New federal sentencing guidelines designed to end the racially tinged disparity between…
On March 25th, Adam Liptak, legal columnist for the New York Times, wrote this article discussing the rate at which innocent people are convicted of felonies. Yesteday, Capital Defense Weekly had this article titled “Another…