Sentences with phrase «for death row prisoners»

Although the concept of a «last meal» for death row prisoners who are about to be executed is under attack for being wasteful and unnecessary in places such as Texas and Florida, the practice still seems to be quite common in most jurisdictions.

For this series, the artist photographed a wide range of subjects such as nuclear waste encapsulation and storage facilities to a recreational site for death row prisoners.

How can we say it's unfair for Iran to execute anyone a mere week after the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear an appeal for a death row prisoner who might have been unjustly convicted?

Not exact matches

If ADX is known as the highest security prison for prisoners not sentenced to death, Terre Haute's death row is «the most maximum security of maximum security,» Dunham said.

They also cared for their comrades on death row: in one instance a prisoner «so much... love [d] the man who was about to die» that he «scaled the fence that enclosed the death - row exercise yard and reached the roof of a nearby building before he was stopped on his way to the death house,» where he «had intended to disable the [electric] chair's generator.»

Amy Elkins (BFA 2007 Photography) Photographer and curator; represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC; co-founder Women in Photography; known for her archiving of prisoners on death row in Texas; winner of the 2014 Aperture Portfolio Prize; artist - in - residence, Villa Waldberta, Munich (2012) and Light Work, Syracuse, NY (2011); included in the permanent collections of North Carolina Museum of Art and Light Work, Syracuse, NY; exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna., the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; solo and group exhibitions at the International Modern Photography Festival, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea;» Cast,» Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia; «Gazed Upon» (curator), Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR; «Deconstructing the Female Gaze» (curator), PPOW Gallery, NYC; photos and features include «Prison Photography,» included in The Telegraph's Stella Magazine, Real Simple, The Huffington Post, American Photo, Harper's, Newsweek and The New York Times.

In this decision, the 2nd Circuit exonerated U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny for his handling of the case of death row prisoner Michael Ross, who decided to forego habeas petitions and was scheduled to die by lethal injection (full account of the story is here).

If granted, rather than proceeding through the stages of «death row» in the United States, the prisoner would be placed on a list marked for DCP.

The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is on trial for misconduct for refusing to hear a last - minute appeal from a death row prisoner scheduled to be executed that night.

Texas Judge on Trial for Refusing to Hear Appeal Hours Before Death Row Prisoner's Execution Democracy Now!

We end in Texas, where the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is on trial for misconduct for refusing to hear a last - minute appeal from a death row prisoner scheduled to be executed that night.

He has played a key role in advocacy efforts to limit the death penalty, helping to enact one North Carolina statute barring the death penalty for persons with intellectual disabilities and another that allowed death row prisoners to present statistical disparities and other evidence to show that race played an impermissible role in their cases.

UK lawyers have secured a last - minute stay of execution for the longest serving prisoner on death row in the US.