Arbitrariness
,Mental Illness
,Representation
,Native Americans
,May 03, 2021
NEWS (4/29/21) — Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has vacated the convictions and death sentences of two more death-row prisoners who, the court found, had committed their offenses against Native Americans on tribal lands. …
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
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Mar 20, 2024
On March 19, 2024, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole denied clemency for Willie Pye (pictured), who is scheduled to be executed on March 20, despite arguments that he has an intellectual disability and is therefore ineligible for execution, …
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…
Human Rights
,International
,Apr 03, 2024
Georgia’s execution of Willie Pye – the state’s first in more than four years – garnered criticism from the European Union. “Although the European Union and its…
