Entries tagged with “Bailey Boswell”
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…
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…