death penalty states

• Federalism by Convenience: The Supreme Court's Judicial Federalists on the Death Penalty and States' Rights Controversies

Introduction. II. Judicial Review, the Rule of Law, and Supreme Court Legitimacy. III. The Pro-State Climate. A. A False History of Federalism. B. Protecting the States' Dignity from Evil: The Rhetoric of Federalism. C. Implied Federalism. IV. Judicial Federalism in the Supreme Court' s Capital Jurisprudence. A. Capital Cases on Direct Appeal. B. Habeas Corpus and Judicial Federalism: Multiple Layers of Deference. V. The Cases Against the States. A. When States Protect Consumers. B. When States Protect Minorities. C. When States Protect Voters. VI. Understanding the Death Penalty Under Convenient Federalism.

• Capital University Law Review
• Nbr. 33-3, May 2005

• Cost Slowly Killing Death Penalty?: ; States Say Expenses Too High to Seek Capital Punishment

CHICAGO - The case New Mexico Attorney General Gary King was prosecuting seemed made for the death penalty: a murder of a prison guard by inmates who stabbed him two- dozen times. However, when the defense ran out of money, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that King could not seek a death sentence until the lawyers were paid - approximately $200,000 for each of the three defendants, King said. When state legislators refused to allocate more money, prosecutors dropped their pursuit of the death penalty.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• March 16, 2009

• The undermining influence of the federal death penalty on capital policymaking and criminal justice administration in the states.

I. INTRODUCTION When Ronell Wilson was sentenced to death by a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York in March of 2007, (1) it was the fi...

• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
• Vol. 100 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• "Like snow [falling] on a branch ...": international law influences on death penalty decisions and debates in the United States.

"[C]apital punishment is unlikely to be undone for any one reason. Like snow on a branch, it is not any single flake that makes the branch break, but ...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 1, December 2009

• Durbin: States Should Not Impose Death Penalty

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - States should not impose the death penalty because of the difficulty in administering it fairly, although the federal government should retain that authority in cases involving terrorism or treason that endanger many lives, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said. Durbin told The (Springfield) State Journal-Register that he had always supported the death penalty, but has come to believe that "life in prison is penalty enough." He said that view was influenced partly by those of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and retired Justice John Paul Stevens.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• January 19, 2011

• Executing the death penalty: international law influences on United States Supreme Court decision-making in capital punishment cases.

I. INTRODUCTION: THE THEME OF "CHANGE" The idea of "change" in public policy is everywhere in the United States today. In significant measure, this ...

• Suffolk Transnational Law Review
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, September 2009

• Death Penalty a Cost Issue -- Strapped States Rethink Expensive Sentence

After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong: Money.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• March 11, 2009

• Methods of execution and their effect on the use of the death penalty in the United States.

INTRODUCTION The legal controversy surrounding lethal injections as a method of execution has profoundly affected the use of the death penalty in th...

• Fordham Urban Law Journal
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 4, June 2008

• Hanging and the Conscience Vote

THE JAMAICA Labour Party promised that should they form the next government, they would resume hanging. The intoxication of politicking might have added glibness to their speeches, but, now that they're in power, they want to fulfil that undertaking. Capital punishment is still on our books, but the previous government was unable to execute anyone because, simply put, the Privy Council (our final appellate authority) has placed time limits on executions and specificities regarding a mandatory death penalty. Additionally, there is international pressure for us to place a moratorium on executions. Those clamouring for the death penalty are sick and tired of murders, worried for their own safety, or closely associated with murder victims. However, according to worldwide studies and experie...

...Interestingly, in the United States of America (in 2006), the average murder rate amon...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 21, 2009

• Amnesty International's New Worldwide Death Penalty Report Finds United States Still Among Top Executing Countries

WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- During 2005, at least 2,148 people were executed in 22 countries and at least 5,186 people were sentenced to death in 53 countries, Amnesty International disclosed today in its annual report on the death penalty worldwide. Across the world 20,000 people are scheduled to be killed by their own governments. With 60 executions carried out in 2005, the United States remains one of the top executing countries, along with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Together the four nations accounted for 94 percent of all executions worldwide.

• U.S. Newswire
• April 19, 2006