Entries tagged with “Apolinar Altamirano”
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Representation
,Aug 24, 2020
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of August 17, 2020
NEWS (8/19/20) — California: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released habeas corpus appeal decisions in two capital cases involving California death-row prisoner Martin Kipp, overturning his conviction in a case prosecuted in Orange County and upholding his conviction and death sentence in a Los Angeles County…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Representation
,Clemency
,Lethal Injection
,Foreign Nationals
,Jul 01, 2019
Death-Penalty News and Developments for the Week of July 1 – 7, 2019: Pennsylvania Joins States Without an Execution in 20 Years
NEWS: July 6—Pennsylvania has joined the list of states that have not carried out an execution in more than 20 years. Five death-penalty states (Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming) and the U.S. military now have not conducted an execution in at least two decades. More than half of the states in the U.S. (26), as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. military either do not have the death penalty or have not executed…