capital punishment
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Justice Sotomayor Gertrudes About Alabama’s Lethal Injections
Feb 23, 2017(Comments: 3)February 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) –In 1982, Troy Wicker, Jr. was murdered. While he was still in his bed, Wicker was shot four times, the fatal shot passing through his eye. Shot with a .22 rifle,... -
Ohio Plans To Resume Executions
Jan 17, 2017(Comments: 3)January 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The death-row-prison staff says that they’ve never had anyone fight or struggle on their way to the Death House. Executions are highly scripted events. The prison staff seems to think... -
Kentucky Prosecutors Would Rather Kill You Than Admit They Are Wrong
Jan 10, 2017(Comments: 3)January 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The story is almost a cliché. Kentucky men Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey Dewayne Clark were convicted in 1995 for the murder of Rhonda Sue Warford. Highly suspect circumstantial evidence,... -
Killing Dylann Roof Will Just Make It Worse
Jan 10, 2017(Comments: 6)January 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Convicted white supremacist murderer Dylann Storm Roof is, by many accounts and by all colloquial sentiments, totally crazy. Of course, that doesn’t mean he is insane or incompetent, as a... -
The Death Penalty: Retain Or Repeal?
Oct 26, 2016(Comments: 11)October 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — The title to this post is taken from the above-the-fold main story in Sunday’s Lincoln Journal Star (October 23, 2016). For most, you know nothing, and don’t care to know... -
New Idaho Policy: Kill Locally, Tax Globally
Sep 14, 2016(Comments: 0)September 14, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Idaho wants to kill Jonathan Renfro. Well, that’s not quite accurate. It would be more accurate to say that Kootenai County wants to kill him. Or to be even more granular,... -
Justice Breyer’s Sudden Interest in the Geography of the Death Penalty
Jun 3, 2016(Comments: 8)June 3, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — We might like to think that the details of who may or may not be executed is not very flexible. This is particularly so if the death penalty is viewed as... -
America’s “Other” Death Penalty
May 13, 2016(Comments: 2)May 13, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Nation-wide, there is a serious shortage of drugs needed to kill Americans sentenced to death. The situation has grown so dire that Missouri, normally a seeker of handouts, may find... -
Four Steps To Death, Unless It’s Too Much Effort
Apr 20, 2016(Comments: 1)Apr. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — A capital prosecution in Ohio works roughly this way. The grand jury charges aggravated murder (Revised Code Section 2903.01) and one or more death specifications (R.C. 2929.04(A)). If the jury... -
James Xavier Rhodes’ Death Penalty Case Makes For Strange Bedfellows
Mar 23, 2016(Comments: 0)Mar. 23, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The mother of the victim of someone who’s facing the death penalty seems like an unlikely witness for the defense, but that’s exactly what happened in James Xavier Rhodes’ case:...