Mental Illness
,Race
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Oct 03, 2022
California Governor Gavin Newsom (pictured) has signed into law a bill that provides death-row prisoners relief from convictions or death sentences obtained “on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin.” The Calif…
Mental Illness
,Race
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Sep 06, 2022
The California legislature has taken a major stride towards reforming the state’s death-penalty practices, passing two bills that would remove from death row individuals whose capital convictions were the product of racial discrim…
Mental Illness
,Representation
,Aug 27, 2021
The California Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a death-row prisoner who was permitted to waive counsel and represent himself despite a mental health expert’s finding that he was too mentally ill even to stand trial.
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Upcoming Executions
,Jul 01, 2020
NEWS (7/2/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court denied relief to death-row prisoner Lero…
Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Representation
,Aug 24, 2020
NEWS (8/19/20) — California: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released habeas corpus appeal decisions in two capital cases involving California death-row prisoner Martin Kipp, overturning his conviction in a case prosecuted …
Mental Illness
,Representation
,Federal Death Penalty
,May 27, 2021
Lawyers for federal death row prisoner Dylann Roof argued to a federal appeals court that the avowed white supremacist’s convictions and death sentences in his trial for the 2015 murders of nine Black churchgoers at Emanuel Africa…
Mental Illness
,Representation
,Federal Death Penalty
,Aug 26, 2021
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed Dylann Roof’s federal-court convictions and death sentences for the racially motivated murders of nine parishioners in an historic Charleston, South Carolina
Mental Illness
,Time on Death Row
,Feb 08, 2021
The Harris County District Attorney’s office has asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to overturn the death sentence imposed on Raymond Riles (pictured), the nation’s longest-serving death-ro…
Mental Illness
,Nov 10, 2020
Lawyers for James Frazier (pictured), Ohio’s oldest death-row prisoner, have filed a motion to prevent his execution, arguing that he has severe vascular dementia that has rendered him unable to understand his pun…
Mental Illness
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Sep 22, 2022
Lawyers for Oklahoma death-row prisoner Benjamin Cole have filed a petition with the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole asking the Board to recommend to Governor Kevin Stitt that Cole’s sentenc…
Innocence
,Mental Illness
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Upcoming Executions
,May 01, 2020
In a case long marred by prosecutorial misconduct, the Missouri Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for Walter Barton (pictured), rejecting his claims of innocence and incompetence to be executed. The cou…
Mental Illness
,Time on Death Row
,Jun 10, 2021
Raymond Riles (pictured), the nation’s longest serving death-row prisoner, has been resentenced to life. On June 9, 2021, Harris County, Texas District Judge Ana Martinez imposed the life sentence via a Z…
Mental Illness
,Time on Death Row
,Apr 19, 2021
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) has overturned the death sentence of the nation’s longest-serving death-row prisoner, 45 years after he was first sent to death row. In an unpublished opinion issued on April 14, 2021, the TCCA h…
