Entries tagged with “Blaine Milam”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Upcoming Executions
,Jul 01, 2020
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of June 29, 2020
NEWS (7/2/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court denied relief to death-row prisoner Leroy Pooler, applying two recent decisions that retroactively rescinded case precedent that could have overturned his death sentence.
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Upcoming Executions
,Federal Death Penalty
,Aug 02, 2020
NEWS BRIEF — Federal Government, Texas Set New Execution Dates
As July 2020 came to a close, the federal government issued two more notices of execution and a county judge in Texas reportedly issued a new death warrant for a death-row prisoner whose previously scheduled execution had been…
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Executions Overview
,Jan 11, 2019
Texas Prisoner Seeks Stay of Execution on Claims of Junk Science, Arbitrary Sentencing
[UPDATE: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution to Blaine Milam on January 14, 2019] As Texas prepares to execute Blaine Milam (pictured) on January 15, 2019, Milam’s lawyers say his conviction and sentence rest on discredited bite-mark testimony and have asked for the execution to be…