Entries tagged with “Alfred Bourgeois”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Jun 22, 2022
On 20th Anniversary of Atkins v. Virginia, Supreme Court Denies Petition to Review Procedural Loophole Permitting Execution of Intellectually Disabled Prisoners
On the twentieth anniversary of its landmark decision in Atkins v. Virginia prohibiting the use of the death penalty against individuals with intellectual disability, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Florida case that creates a procedural loophole that allows those executions to…
Facts & Research
United States Supreme Court
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 29, 2021
Legitimacy and the Rule of Law: Supreme Court’s Institutional Standing Damaged by Rulings During Federal Execution Spree
From July 14, 2020 through January 16, 2021, the federal government executed thirteen prisoners. It was the most consecutive executions by a single jurisdiction since the U.S. death penalty resumed in the 1970s and the longest period of time in which an execution spree by any government went unabated while no other jurisdiction executed…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Native Americans
,Women
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 18, 2021
‘This is Not Justice’ — Federal Execution Spree Ends with Planned Execution of African-American on Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday
An historically aberrant six-month federal execution spree came to a close after midnight on January 16, 2021 when an African-American man who was scheduled to die on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was put to death by private executioners hired in a secret no-bid…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 14, 2021
Federal Government Executes Corey Johnson, Who was Likely Intellectually Disabled, Without Any Judicial Review of His Eligibility for the Death Penalty
For the second time in less than five weeks, the federal government has executed a death-row prisoner who likely was intellectually disabled, without affording him judicial review to determine his eligibility for the death penalty. Corey Johnson (pictured) was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 11:34 p.m. on January 14, 2021, the 12th federal prisoner executed in six months and the fifth in the transition period between Donald Trump’s defeat in the November 2020…
State & Federal Info
Federal Death Penalty
,Dec 11, 2020
Federal Government Carries Out Two More Executions, Capping Deadliest Federal Death Penalty Year Since the 1890s
The federal government carried out back-to-back executions of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois on December 10 and 11, 2020, capping the deadliest run of federal executions in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. According to the Espy file, a database of executions in the U.S. and its colonies between 1608 and 2002, the ten executions since July 14 constitute the most federal civilian executions in a calendar year since the federal government…
Facts & Research
Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Federal Death Penalty
,Dec 07, 2020
Prosecutors Call for Ending Federal Executions
Saying “our nation’s long experiment with the death penalty has failed,” a coalition of nearly 100 criminal justice officials is calling on the federal government to halt the five executions currently scheduled for December 2020 and January 2021 and to end its use of the death…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,DPIC Reports
,Upcoming Executions
,Foreign Nationals
,Federal Death Penalty
,Dec 04, 2020
DPIC Analysis — Intellectually Disabled Defendants of Color, Foreign Nationals Disproportionately Subject to the Death Penalty
Defendants of color and foreign nationals who are intellectually disabled are disproportionately likely to be sentenced to death, a Death Penalty Information Center analysis of cases involving intellectually disabled defendants…
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,History of the Death Penalty
,Upcoming Executions
,Federal Death Penalty
,Nov 23, 2020
Trump Administration Presses Forward with Death Penalty Despite Election Defeat, Announcing 3 More Death Warrants and More Capital Prosecutions
Despite its defeat at the polls on November 3, the Trump administration is pressing forward with efforts to conduct an historically unprecedented number of lame duck executions and in announcing new federal capital prosecutions that it will not be in position to carry…
Policy Issues
Mental Illness
,Representation
,Victims' Families
,Upcoming Executions
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jun 16, 2020
With Litigation Pending in U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Government Issues Four Death Warrants
With a petition for review pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on the legality and constitutionality of the federal execution protocol, U.S. Attorney General William Barr on June 15, 2020 set execution dates for four federal death-row prisoners, including three who are involved in the pending case. The warrants scheduled three executions over a five-day period in July and a fourth execution in late August. No federal executions have been carried out since 2003, and the five…
Executions
Lethal Injection
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 16, 2020
Appeals Court Hears Argument on Injunction that Halted Federal Executions
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard nearly two hours of argument on January 15, 2020 in four consolidated cases that could determine whether the federal government will be able to resume executions in 2020. The appeals panel — composed of Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao, both appointed by President Donald Trump, and David S. Tatel, appointed by former President Bill Clinton — sharply questioned lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and four…
Facts & Research
United States Supreme Court
,Upcoming Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Federal Death Penalty
,Dec 07, 2019
Supreme Court Ruling Halts Scheduled Federal Executions
The United States Supreme Court has denied an application by the U.S. Department of Justice to lift a federal court injunction blocking the federal government from carrying out four executions scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020. The Court’s unanimous ruling, issued Friday evening December 6, ensures that there will be no federal executions in…
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Federal Death Penalty
,Nov 21, 2019
Washington District Court Enjoins U.S. Government From Carrying Out Federal Executions
A federal judge in Washington has issued a preliminary injunction barring the United States government from carrying out four executions scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020. The opinion, issued November 20, 2019, temporarily halts the federal executions pending completion of court challenges to the government’s execution process and is a major blow to the Trump administration’s plan to resume carrying out the federal death penalty after a sixteen-year…