Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment is a profoundly complex and controversial aspect of the criminal justice system. This section provides articles that explore the history, legal frameworks, and ethical debates surrounding Capital Punishment in various jurisdictions. Correctional professionals can gain insights into the procedures, implications, and ongoing discussions about using the death penalty. Understanding Capital Punishment is crucial for those involved in its administration and those engaged in broader criminal justice reform efforts. For further context, explore related topics on supermax prisons.
The Oklahoma attorney general requested the transfer after President Donald Trump directed the DOJ to ensure states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions
President Donald Trump’s directive prioritizes the death penalty “regardless of other factors” when the case involves the killing of a law enforcement officer
Ex-New Orleans cop Len Davis was sentenced to death after he was convicted of ordering a woman killed in 1994 after she alleged he and his partner beat a young boy
Erick Davila is set to die for the shooting deaths of a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother during a birthday party 10 years ago
The auditor said the decades Walter Moody sat on death row was an example of justice delayed equaling justice denied
Robert Earl Butts Jr., convicted in the slaying of an off-duty CO, argued he should be resentenced because he wouldn’t get the death penalty if he were sentenced today
Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, became the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times
A package bomber who created a wave of terror across the South is scheduled to be executed in Alabama, nearly 30 years after killing a federal judge
The court rejected a challenge that argued juries and not judges should impose death sentences
Judge Wendell Griffen lay tied to the cot during a demonstration by death penalty opponents
Lawyers for Robert Earl Butts Jr. said the inmate should be resentenced because he wouldn’t get the death penalty if he were sentenced today
Walter Moody argued that Alabama has no right to carry out the death penalty while he’s also serving a federal sentence
Robert Earl Butts Jr. was convicted of killing an off-duty CO after asking him for a ride outside a Walmart in 1996
Walter Moody was convicted of mailing the bomb that killed Judge Robert Vance and seriously injured his wife
The court said Willie Russell must be re-evaluated to see if he’s too intellectually disabled for the death penalty
Enoch D. Hall was sentenced to die for beating, strangling and stabbing corrections officer Donna Fitzgeral in 2008
The lawsuit said the new rules would bar journalists from fully reporting on the lethal injection procedure
The lawyers said the inmates’ sentences should be vacated because the state no longer believes in executing its worst criminals
The court ruled that a man sentenced to death for the 1991 fatal stabbing of an elderly couple isn’t intellectually disabled and may be executed
Bruce Ward has asked SCOTUS to consider whether he should have been entitled to help from an independent mental health professional before and during his trial
A spokeswoman said the renewed request to the Justice Department will avoid “stressful delays” and cut “excessive costs” of lengthy federal court proceedings
The justices initially gave Keith Leroy Tharpe another chance to raise claims of racial bias on his jury
With weeks to go before his execution, lawyers for Erick Davila argued he didn’t intend to kill more than one person
The sedative diazepam that the state has expires May 1, and the Nevada DOC may not be able to get more
The Arkansas Department of Correction insists that secrecy is needed to ensure a steady supply of the drugs
Lawyers say an inmate is trying to “frustrate” the enforcement of the states’s execution law by raising appeals the state and SCOTUS have already considered
Rosendo Rodriguez III spoke defiantly and never apologized to relatives of his victims before his execution
A judge lifted his own court’s previous order blocking California from carrying out death sentences by lethal injection
Doyle Lee Hamm’s legal team said the private settlement would end efforts at setting another execution date
The ACLU of Nebraska is challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol, arguing that officials adopted a flawed protocol last year without adequate public review
Rosendo Rodriguez is set for execution for the 2005 slaying of Summer Baldwin, who was 10 weeks pregnant
The inmate wants justices to prevent his execution while he pursues another case before the U.S. Supreme Court
The men were convicted of separate killings in Birmingham, Alabama