Sentences with phrase «for death penalty cases»

What was the most challenging aspect of being defence counsel for death penalty cases?

Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

«Resistance Redux,» August, should have stated that J. Tony Serra typically charges $ 25,000 for a death penalty case, knowing he could get nearly 10 times that working as a court - appointed attorney.

Not exact matches

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

The judge in the death - penalty case against a suspected USS Cole attacker has found the the chief defense counsel for military commissions, Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker, in contempt, according to a report from the Miami Herald.

Most death penalty cases, from trials to appeals, rack up a large bill for multiple state agencies.

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

And her record in death penalty cases speaks for itself: she has defended some of the most notorious killers in US history - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, and Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two young children in a South Carolina lake.

If jurors favor the death penalty in some cases, then it shouldn't be shocking that they'd vote for it in a case where the defendant terrorized an entire city and killed and maimed innocent civilians.

The prosecution, for its part, is expected to try and keep the jury's attention focused on Tsarnaev's specific crimes, according to David Hoose, a Northampton, Mass. attorney and an expert on death penalty cases.

On Saturday, Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz described the crime as «the type of case the death penalty was designed for.»

They said that's far too little to hire a lawyer for such a massive death penalty case that could last for years.

State Attorney Michael J. Satz said Saturday that this «certainly is the type of case the death penalty was designed for,» but now is the time «to let the families grieve and bury their children and loved ones.»

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

There may be a case for demanding a higher standard of proof before imposing the death penalty, but the right to impose it has never been abrogated.

But I do not oppose the death penalty in quite the way he means, for I noted that one can imagine in certain extreme cases the need for executions in the order of social justice.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

WWM says the latest acquittal came in a low - profile case, much unlike the case against Bibi, who remains the only woman sentenced to the death penalty for blasphemy in Pakistan.

Because it focuses on a single case, Bloodsworth is more effective than The Death Penalty on Trial, which does not allow for the same depth of reader engagement.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

The empirical grounding in the arguments of the authors makes a powerful and eloquent case for the abolition of the death penalty.

Their three books together make a powerful and eloquent case for the abolition of the death penalty.

To back up in your response, you wrote «Case in point, SMU got the death penalty for paying its players, yet the bagmen haven't really gone away, as evidenced by Ole Miss and Auburn and whoever else will get caught next.»

While the second is technically true, it should be pointed out that defense lawyers have, for years, intentionally run up the cost to the state by presenting multiple appeals, even based on little to no actual legal cause, in order to drive up the cost of death penalty cases.

«This certainly is the type of case the death penalty was designed for,» Broward County State Attorney Mike Satz said in a statement.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States today called for a halt to the impending execution of Troy Davis, scheduled for September 21 in Georgia, and cited the case an example of why the death penalty must be abolished.

The case is indicative of a broader crisis for the death penalty in the US.

What makes the analysis possible is that data on the potential need for exoneration from death penalty cases come to light more often than it does for other types of criminal proceedings.

When he's found guilty, Hanks advises the judge to keep him in jail rather that give him the death penalty, because he sees him a chance for a prisoner exchange in the future in case the soviet's catch a U.S. spy, which does happen three years later.

Some might read the film as a celebration of vigilante justice, or even a robust case for the death penalty.

a feature of certain debt instruments that allow for the estate of a deceased investor to «put back» or redeem that instrument without penalty; bonds that carry a survivor's option usually redeem for par value when the survivor's option is exercised; in either case the benefit of the survivor's option can not be realized unless the original investor in the asset has died; because investor mortality risk must be taken into account when underwriting assets that carry a survivor's option, these assets are more complex and expensive to issue; also known as a «death put»

Distributions for non-medical expenses are taxable and subject to a 20 % penalty if withdrawn before age 65 (except in the cases of death or disability).

There is a Taxpayer Relief program that allows for the reduction of penalties and interest in some cases, including natural disasters, deaths, health problems, financial hardships and mistakes made by the CRA.

If the insurance requirement is impossible to meet, then that is no different than a death penalty for that dog in most cases, and would be considered an inhumane and unjust outcome that wasn't anticipated by the legislators.

But during his confirmation hearings, he said he had dropped the death penalty in an Alabama case when he learned it did not meet the legal criteria, weathering political attacks for the decision.

During law school, Oberg worked as a briefing law clerk for the Attorney General Office in the State of Nebraska, where he assisted in the prosecution of criminal appeals, including death penalty cases.

Appointed by the U.S. District Court to represent the first person tried in a federal death penalty case in the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, resulting in a life sentence rather than a death sentence;

As detailed in this local article, headlined «Tennessee moves closer to executing first woman: Sixth Circuit denies appeal to woman convicted in murder for hire of husband,» a new federal habeas ruling in a state capital case provides an effective opportunity to reflect on gender bias in the application of the death penalty.

Oklahoma also made the news when it suspended a prosecutor for misconduct that occurred in death penalty cases decades earlier.

Bills itself as an open access case book for death penalty jurisprudence.

The Court's first mistake came in the highly - publicized Kennedy v. Louisiana case, where an astute blogger pointed out that the Court had overlooked a federal statute authorizing the death penalty for child rape.

For example, Stevens's thoughts on his opinion in the 2008 Baze v. Rees capital punishment case seemed, for the first time I've seen, to dispel the notion that Stevens is inching toward an absolute rejection of the death penalty as his time on the Court nears an eFor example, Stevens's thoughts on his opinion in the 2008 Baze v. Rees capital punishment case seemed, for the first time I've seen, to dispel the notion that Stevens is inching toward an absolute rejection of the death penalty as his time on the Court nears an efor the first time I've seen, to dispel the notion that Stevens is inching toward an absolute rejection of the death penalty as his time on the Court nears an end.

While the mandatory minimum sentences for impaired driving continue to apply, obviously significantly increased penalties are common in cases where serious injury or death results.

Murshed began by assisting the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, writing submissions for about 60 prisoners potentially facing the death penalty, and later focused on the landmark Supreme Court case of Susan Kigula and 417 others, which held that the automatic death sentence was unconstitutional.

Gilchrist, who testified as a prosecution expert in 23 death penalty cases, including those of 12 inmates who were later executed, was fired in 2001 for doing sloppy work and giving false or misleading testimony.

Since 1991, we have successfully obtained real results — not - guilty verdicts, reduced charges, dropped cases or death penalty taken off the table — for every client we have defended against a charge of murder.

Today, over at the SCONo blog in this recent post, Tom Goldstein covers related ground in noting that SCOTUS «has before it for next Term four cases involving capital sentencing that the Court could use to turn in the direction of still greater deference to the states» administration of the death penalty.»

Stephen has worked on an impressive amount of criminal law cases; he is especially renowned for representing clients facing the death penalty and high - profile murder cases.

The award is for a United States Department of Justice Bloodsworth Grant, named in honor of Kirk Bloodsworth, the first DNA death penalty exoneration case in the U.S. in 1993.