Entries tagged with “Aubrey Trail”
Jun 14, 2021
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of June 7, 2021
NEWS (6/9/21) — Nebraska: A panel of three judges has sentenced Aubrey Trail to death for the 2017 killing of Sydney Loofe. In a statement to the court before the panel pronounced sentence, Trail admitted to the killing but said that his co-defendant, Bailey Boswell, who faces capital sentencing hearing later this month, was not involved in the killing. Trail is the 12th person on Nebraska’s death…
Executions
Executions Overview
,Lethal Injection
,Aug 17, 2023
Death-Sentenced Prisoner Aubrey Trail Waives Appeals and Petitions Nebraska for Execution Date Despite Unavailability of Lethal Injection Drugs
On August 8, 2023, death-sentenced prisoner Aubrey Trail petitioned the state to set his execution date. Currently, there are 10 others on death row in Nebraska, but the state does not possess the necessary lethal injection drugs for any executions. Nebraska has not executed anyone in more than five years. The last person executed was Carey Dean Moore in 2018 via lethal injection. Mr. Trail confessed to the 2017 killing of Sydney Loofe and was sentenced to death by a three-judge panel in…
Facts & Research
United States Supreme Court
,Lethal Injection
,May 12, 2021
In ‘Netherworld’ Between Law and Reality, Nebraska Prosecutors Continue Pursuit of Death Penalty
The legislature doesn’t want capital punishment, the executive branch can’t obtain execution drugs, and Nebraska prosecutors have moved forward this year with the pandemic-delayed capital sentencing trials of two defendants separately convicted of a murder out of a voyeuristic true-crime novel. The state, writes Associated Press reporter Grant Schulte in a May 9, 2021 analysis, is “still wedded to the idea of executing prisoners, just not the practical part of doing it” and…
Death Row
Conditions on Death Row
,Women
,Nov 17, 2021
Nebraska Narrowly Avoids Sending First-Ever Woman to Death Row as 3‑Judge Panel Splits on Sentence for Bailey Boswell
Nebraska, which had no plans for housing a female death-row prisoner, has narrowly avoided having to address that failure, as a divided three-judge panel on November 8, 2021 sentenced Bailey Boswell to life in prison without possibility of…
Apr 25, 2020
News Brief — Coronavirus Effects Continue to be Felt in Capital Prosecutions
NEWS (4/24/20) — California: The death penalty trial of Kori Muhammad for the killings of four people in two separate incidents ended without advancing to a penalty phase just two days after a Fresno County jury convicted him of one count of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder. The trial had been interrupted by coronavirus court closures, with guilt-phase jury deliberations halted for four weeks in March, then completed on April…