Execution halted
November 14, 2007 on 6:11 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments |Nov 14, 3:36 PM EST
By RON WORD
Associated Press Writer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A federal court granted a stay Wednesday blocking the execution of Mark Dean Schwab, who was scheduled to die Thursday for the murder of an 11-year-old boy. The state quickly filed an appeal seeking to overturn the order.
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Stop and go
November 9, 2007 on 11:42 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments |Editorial - Daytona News Journal
November 9, 2007
Florida ignores national action on executions
Will there be an execution next week or not?
In four separate rulings in other states, the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have put the practice of lethal injection on hold. Yet the Florida Supreme Court, in rulings last week and this week, gave the go-ahead to execute two inmates. In light of the federal court’s ruling, Read More
Florida Supreme Court Approves Lethal Injection
November 8, 2007 on 5:00 am | In Uncategorized, Case news | No Comments |On November 1st, in a very discouraging, but not surprising move, the Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously that lethal injection, as outlined by the Florida Department of Corrections, is not cruel and unusual. Read More
Trying to Decipher the State of the Death Penalty
October 19, 2007 on 12:32 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments |October 19, 2007
SUPREME COURT MEMO
Trying to Decipher the State of the Death Penalty. New York Times Article
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — Is there a death penalty moratorium now in place, and how would we know? Read More
Hoping for a Stay of Execution
October 7, 2007 on 5:33 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments |October 11, 2007
The Florida Supreme Court heard the cases of Ian Lightbourne and Mark Schwab today, October 11th. Mr. Lightbourne is not under warrant, but Mr. Schwab’s execution is set for November 15th. We are hoping for a stay of execution. Read More
A new development at the U.S. Supreme Court may put Mr. Schwab’s execution on hold
September 26, 2007 on 11:37 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments |BREAKING NEWS
The Florida Supreme Court is set to hear the cases of Ian Lightbourne and Mark Schwab on October 11, 2007. Lightbourne is challenging the lethal injection protocol and Mark Schwab is appealing his scheduled execution set for November 15 at 6:00 p.m. However, a new development at the U.S. Supreme Court may put Mr. Schwab’s execution on hold. See the story below from the Death Penalty Information Center: Read More
Disturbing reversal on lethal injections
September 14, 2007 on 5:08 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments |A Times Editorial
Published September 14, 2007
Bizarre may be the best way to describe the 180-degree turn of Marion County Circuit Judge Carven Angel on the state’s lethal injection protocols. In July, the judge had made it clear that he was very uncomfortable with Florida’s updated execution procedures, worrying aloud over whether they comported with “evolving notions of decency.” Read More
News Update: Hill/Muhammad Execution
September 21, 2006 on 4:46 pm | In Uncategorized, Case news, National legal news, Commentary | No Comments |From: Mark Elliott,
Spokesperson, FADP - Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
c/p (727) 215-9646
Fax (727) 397-6245
mark@fadp.org
Friends,
Important news about the ClarenceHill/Razzaq Muhammad execution.
The vigil at Raiford last night was attended by over 50 concerned Floridians from diverse religious, ethnic and racial backgrounds…united in their opposition to the Death Penalty. A bus from the Orlando Diocese brought several dozen folks, picking them up at cities across mid-Florida. There were local vigils held around the state.
Philippine President ordered the commutation of all death sentences to life in prison.
April 25, 2006 on 7:07 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments |Philippine President Gloria Macapagel-Arroyo [pictured below] ordered the commutation of all death sentences to life in prison, an order that will spare the lives of the 1,205 people on death row. As her nation marked Easter Sunday, she issued the clemencies: “I wish to announce that we are changing our policy on those who have been imposed the death penalty. We are reducing their penalty to life imprisonment. Anyone who falls and makes mistakes has a chance to stand up and correct the wrong he has committed.” Since Arroyo became President in 2001, no death sentences have ben carried out and she has repeatedly issued stays to those facing execution. The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 1987, but it was reimposed by Congress in 1994. Since 1999, when executions resumed, seven people have been executed by lethal injection. The Catholic Church in the Philippines has opposed the death penalty. (Bangkok Post, April 17, 2006).
Appeal denied
January 6, 2006 on 5:32 pm | In Uncategorized, Case news | No Comments |Florida Supreme Court rejects Rutherford appeal
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — One of two death row inmates scheduled for execution later this month lost an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday.
The justices without comment unanimously rejected Arthur D. Rutherford’s claim that his rights had been violated because he was placed in shackles during the penalty phase of his trial.
Rutherford, 56, has a separate appeal pending in Santa Rosa County, where he was convicted of killing Stella Salamon in 1985 at her home. Her body was found submerged in a bathtub. Rutherford is scheduled for execution Jan. 31.
The Supreme Court has set oral argument next Wednesday in an appeal by Clarence Edward Hill, 47, who is scheduled to die Jan. 24 for the 1982 shooting death of Pensacola police officer Stephen Taylor during a bank robbery.
Hill’s lawyer contends his execution would be cruel and unusual punishment in part because he is brain damaged and mentally disabled.
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