Entries tagged with “James Barber”
Policy Issues
Victims' Families
,Jul 19, 2023
Alabama Plans to Resume Executions After Series of Botches; Oklahoma Execution Scheduled for Same Day
Two of the nation’s highest-use death penalty states have scheduled executions for July 20, 2023. Alabama is set to execute James Barber (pictured, left), resuming executions after Governor Kay Ivey halted them in November 2022 in response to three consecutive botched executions. Oklahoma plans to execute Jemaine Cannon (pictured, right), one of the 25 people included in the two-year execution spree announced in…
Policy Issues
Representation
,Jun 28, 2021
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of June 21, 2021
NEWS (6/25/21) — Alabama: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed an Alabama federal district court decision dismissing James Barber’s habeas corpus challenge to his conviction and death sentence. In an unsigned, unpublished opinion, the appeals court denied Barber’s claim that his lawyers provided ineffective representation in the penalty phase of his capital trial by failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence to the…