Entries tagged with “Apolinar Altamirano

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Aug 24, 2020

Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of August 172020

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

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Jul 01, 2019

Death-Penalty News and Developments for the Week of July 17, 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…