Entries tagged with “Ernest Porter”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Representation
,Conditions on Death Row
,Nov 02, 2020
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of October 26, 2020
NEWS (10/30/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of Jonathan Lawrence in an opinion that removed yet another appellate safeguard for the state’s death-row prisoners. In the case, the new far-right majority of the court ended the 50-year-old practice of conducting an independent proportionality review of a death sentence to determine whether the verdict was…