Links to officials to express your thoughts on the death penalty
July 27, 2011 on 5:48 am | In TCADP actions | No Comments |Governor Rick Scott – Rick.Scott@myflorida.com
Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll – Jennifer.Carroll@myflorida.com
Secretary of Dept. of Corrections Edwin Buss – Buss.Edwin@mail.dc.state.fl.us
Inspector General, Dept. of Corrections – Edmonson.Terrance@mail.dc.state.fl.us
The saga of Manuel Valle
July 27, 2011 on 5:15 am | In Case news, State legal news | No Comments |TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has asked U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to lift a stay of execution ordered by the state’s highest court.
Bondi filed the request after the Florida Supreme Court on Monday ordered a month-long stay for Manuel Valle.
He was had been scheduled for execution Aug. 2 for killing a Coral Gables police officer 33 years ago.
The state justices, in a 4-3 ruling, ordered the stay so a trial judge can hold a fact-finding hearing on whether Valle would feel pain from a new drug Florida plans to use for lethal injection.
Bondi’s filing says that issue already has been decided in cases from other states.
Thomas can lift the stay, but death row cases usually are referred to the full court.
Death Penalty, Still Racist and Arbitrary
July 9, 2011 on 8:35 pm | In Commentary, National legal news | No Comments |Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times
By DAVID R. DOW
Published: July 8, 2011, Houston
LAST week was the 35th anniversary of the return of the American death penalty. It remains as racist and as random as ever.
Several years after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a University of Iowa law professor, David C. Baldus (who died last month), along with two colleagues, published a study examining more than 2,000 homicides that took place in Georgia beginning in 1972. They found that black defendants were 1.7 times more likely to receive the death penalty than white defendants and that murderers of white victims were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed blacks. Read More
Florida Supreme Court overturned death sentences Thursday
July 1, 2011 on 9:47 am | In Case news, State legal news | No Comments |
The Florida Supreme Court overturned death sentences Thursday for convicted killers from Jacksonville and Zephyrhills. Read More
Scott signs 1st death warrant for Fla. cop killer
July 1, 2011 on 4:59 am | In Case news, State legal news | No Comments |Associated Press
The governor signed the warrant exactly a week after a federal judge in Miami declared Florida’s method of imposing the death penalty is unconstitutional because jurors are not required to make specific findings of aggravating factors to justify capital punishment.
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