Entries tagged with “Charles Burton”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Jul 26, 2019
ACLU Article Explores the Use of the Death Penalty Against Those Who Have Not Killed
The U.S. Supreme Court has said the death penalty must be reserved for the worst of the worst murders and be imposed only on the worst of the worst offenders. But what of an accomplice to a felony in which someone was killed but the accomplice neither committed the killing nor intended that a killing would take place? Those co-defendants are not even the worst of the worst participants in the offense for which they are charged. Yet, as the American Civil Liberties Union…
Policy Issues
Secrecy
,Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,Aug 11, 2021
Alabama, Mississippi Take Preparatory Steps to Resume Executions
Alabama and Mississippi have undertaken preparatory steps towards resuming executions in the face of continuing legal challenges to their methods of…