Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Race
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Lethal Injection
,Apr 26, 2021
NEWS (4/21 – 4/23/21) — Texas: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled against Texas death-row prisoners in three separate capital appeals. On April 23, a split panel of the court …
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Representation
,May 10, 2021
A federal appeals court has reversed the death sentence of an African-American Georgia death-row prisoner who was represented at trial by a defense lawyer notorious for his history of substandard representation and racial bias in …
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Representation
,Upcoming Executions
,Mar 07, 2024
The Georgia Attorney General has announced that Willie James Pye, who previously had his death sentence reversed due to his attorney’s failure to investigate his background, only to see the death sentence reinstated on appeal, is set to be execute…
Race
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Apr 28, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Georgia death-penalty case in which the prosecution was permitted to make a visibly shackled defendant reenact the murder in front of the jury, while his defense cou…
