Sentences with phrase «on death penalty»

Another blog that focuses intently on death penalty - related news and developments throughout the Nation is the «Ohio Death Penalty Information» blog.

As constitutional lawyers know, Justice Breyer has typically voted like Justices Brennan and Marshall on the death penalty.

Helpfully, Lyle Denniston has this lengthy preview post at SCOTUSblog titled «Defining the jury's role on death penalty,» and here are excerpts:

Some worked on judicial interpretation drafting, many sat in on collegiate panel discussions of cases, assisted in case review, and assisted the teams of judges working on death penalty review while many helped their mentors with related research and administrative matters, finding their work reviewed meticulously, and spending long hours along with their (overworked) mentors.

Back in August of 2014, Lawyer 2 Lawyer hosted a show on the death penalty where we explored whether the death penalty was considered cruel and unusual with standout guests Judge Alex Kozinski from the United States Court of Appeals for The Ninth Circuit, exonerated death row survivor Ronald Keine from Witness to Innocence, and M * A * S * H...

My personal Can you share with Lawyer Monthly your stance now on the death penalty?

The Arkansas Supreme Court's decision to lift a ban on the death penalty stole the rights of the nine convicted killers who filed suit to challenge the state's execution procedures, and it forces all state courts to continue that theft, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen said in a ruling Tuesday.

And at «SCOTUSblog,» Lyle Denniston has a post titled «Opinion analysis: A new limit on the death penalty.»

I am voting against the petition for rehearing because the views of the American people on the death penalty for child rape were, to tell the truth, irrelevant to the majority's decision in this case.The majority opinion, after an unpersuasive attempt to show that a consensus against the penalty existed, in the end came down to this:» [T] he Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.»

I have been kvetching a lot, most recently in posts here and here, about the Supreme Court's expenditure of so much time and energy on death penalty cases when there is so much post-Blakely and post-Booker work to be done.

But as the article points out, Skadden is hardly a slouch when it comes to pro bono, it works on death penalty matters and has been funding public interest fellowships to law school graduates since 1988.

Posts offer the authors» takes on matters of government secrecy, individual privacy, women's rights, workplace discrimination and on death penalty cases of interest.

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference First - cut reactions to the NJ report on the death penalty:

My personal opinions on death penalty aside, I would expect that once the sentence is final, it should...

And now, news stories from the New York Times, Austin American - Statesman and the Houston Chronicle are reporting that Keller's actions have galvanized 300 lawyers, prominent defense attorneys and judges among them, to seek changes in the Texas court's filing practices on death penalty cases.

Stubbs, speaking at the ABA Midyear Meeting, told the audience of «A North American Perspective on the Death Penalty: The American, Mexican and Canadian Experiences» that although the death penalty was legal in Mexico and Canada during the early to mid-20th century, neither country actually carried out many death sentences.

He is the author of the blog Terry Lenamon on the Death Penalty.

His experience gives him a peerless moral authority on the death penalty, and he raises powerful questions about the practice.

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4 full hour lessons focusing on the death penalty.

The only thing that keeps it from being an all - time great is an unnecessary, unfair take on the death penalty, marring an otherwise outstanding second half of the film especially.

«There is measurement error in any score,» says Edward Polloway of Lynchburg College in Virginia, co-chair of a task force on the death penalty for the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).

For more on death penalty considerations, see Scientific American's editorial in the May edition of the magazine that details how the use of drugs to carry out capital punishment is inadvertently putting medical patients at risk.

In commenting on the death penalty, Justice Antonin Scalia said, «For the believing Christian, death is no big deal.»

Next, the team asked another group of volunteers to undertake tasks designed to soften their existing views, such as preparing speeches on the death penalty in which they had to take the opposite view to their own.

I can't say I blame them: if enlightened liberals feel good about themselves for supporting immigration and a ban on the death penalty, there is no way they are going to hear, much less repeat, any evidence to the contrary.

Wolf restored a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», in state parks and placed a moratorium on the death penalty within Pennsylvania.

«My position on the death penalty is totally ahead of the pack,» King said.

(CNN)- Just days before the special election for a seat in New York's 20th congressional district, the National Republican Congressional Committee launched a web ad Friday targeting Democratic candidate Scott Murphy, invoking 9/11 to hammer him over his position on the death penalty.

He never swayed with the political winds - whether on the death penalty or any other issue - and he earned a spot alongside Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith, and Franklin Roosevelt in the pantheon of New York's great progressive governors.»

In the said article, Professor Emmanuel Victor Dankwah, Chairman of the so called Constitution Review Implementation Committee, is reported to have addressed a forum in Kumasi where he explained that Ghanaians will answer questions on the death penalty during an upcoming referendum.

«Others classify information on the death penalty as a state secret, making its release an act of treason.»

He's compared the position to the one his father, Mario Cuomo, held on the death penalty, pointing out a majority of New Yorkers supported the death penalty at the time, but the elder Cuomo held firm, because he thought it was the right thing to do.

He cited Republican George Pataki who, in his first several years, won major victories on the death penalty and tax cuts, but ran into difficulty legislatively later in his time as governor.

Setting aside my personal convictions on the issue, the need for a debate on the death penalty is highly questionable.

From the perspective of the right to life, a focus on the death penalty can also be reductionist.

A Documentary on the Death Penalty and Human Rights legislation in Bahrain Producer: Isabel Woodford

on Gays... he said, «Well the «Scripture» says...» on the death penalty he got the phony smile and said... «Well other people know lots more than me... so I don't have an opinion»... The guy is completely hollow... I hope he helps the poor but I doubt it... he is a RIGHT WINGED Fundamentalist in T V «clothing»... he would be the first to show up at a town hanging and grin... and pass the hat...

Taylor devotes the final two chapters of his book to a discussion of how Christians can engage in a «way of the cross» — in movement - building and a «theatrics of counterterror» — as a way to «take on the death penalty,... working for a time when it is no more.»

It was a point of contention between myself and the Bishops that would come every year to the Red Mass... [They] always ended the breakfast respectfully but unfortunately saying, «Did you change your mind on the death penalty?»

This is not a debate on the death penalty.

There is no such thing as legalized murder, and to assert such is to indulge in the irrational, sensationalist rhetoric which unfortunately so degrades contemporary debate on the death penalty.

Perhaps showing how closely he follows the debates that have exploded over his various pronouncements, Francis devoted some time in his remarks to demonstrating that his new position on the death penalty is part of a «harmonious development» of doctrine.

In his remarks, Francis indicated a desire to revise the Catechism, to take into account the development of doctrine on the death penalty.

Make no mistake, Norman Mailer's latest is neither a great retelling of the gospel nor Mailer anywhere near the peaks that he reached with his political writing that culminated in the compulsively readable account of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, The Armies of the Night, or even Executioner's Song, his story of the ending of the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty with the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore.

I may be Catholic, but I'm not a maniac about it, runs their unofficial subtext — meaning: I'm happy to take credit for enlightened Catholic positions on the death penalty / social justice / civil rights, but of course I don't believe in those archaic teachings about divorce / homosexuality / and above all birth control.

Some legal analysts said this move may have signaled to jurors that these victims were divided on the death penalty.

The relationship between views on the death penalty and abortion — both issues in which Catholic teachings and US law are not in alignment — were zeroed in on by the panel.

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.