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Bazed and Confused
2007-10-01 19:46:00 News Update 10.01.07 North Carolina Nothing to report. Elsewhere Following its grant of certiorari in Baze v. Rees, the Supreme Court declined to stop the execution of Michael Richard. It appears that Richard was executed in large part because the computers at his attorneys’ office crashed and they were unable to file his petition until 20 minutes after ... More About: News , Death penalty , D and C
Executions - October 2007
2007-10-01 18:57:00 3 - Heliberto Chi (TX) 9 - Anthony Washington (PA - stay likely) 11 - Raymond Solano (PA - stay likely) 15 - William Castillo (NV - volunteer) 16 - Jack Harold Jones, Jr. (AR) 17 - Christopher Scott Emmett (VA) 18 - Romell Broom (OH - stayed) 24 - Michael Joe Boyd (TN - commuted) 25 - Daniel Siebert (AL) More About: Death penalty , Executions , October 2007 , October , Execution
Wake County Woman Gets Life
2007-09-26 18:28:00 News Update 09.26.07 North Carolina A Wake County woman avoided the death penalty today by pleading guilty to murder and accepting a sentence of life without parole. Monique Berkley faced death for her part in the 2005 murder of her husband, Paul Berkley. In Raleigh, inmates facing execution have asked the Council of State to accept the ... More About: News , Life , Woman , Death penalty
Breaking: US Supreme Court to Consider Lethal Injection Challenge
2007-09-25 16:56:00 The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in the Kentucky case known as Baze v. Rees. Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling, inmates on Kentucky’s death row, are asking the Court to consider - for the first time in over 100 years - whether a particular method of execution violates the 8th Amendment’s ... More About: News , Death penalty , Challenge , Breaking
Judge Says Medical Board Can?t Punish Death Docs
2007-09-24 16:35:00 News Update 09.24.07 North Carolina A judge ruled last week that the North Carolina Medical Board cannot discipline doctors who participate in executions. Reporting here, here, here, and here. You can read the judge’s decision here. In essence, Judge Donald Stephens found that medical ethics, however noble, don’t override the mandate of the legislature. ... More About: News
Life Saved in Watauga County
2007-09-21 15:44:00 News Update 09.21.07 North Carolina In Watauga County , Kyle Quentin Triplett pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and other charges yesterday for the 2005 death of Stephen William Harrington. Jury selection was already underway in Triplett’s first-degree murder trial, which could have resulted in a death sentence. More here and here. Some wonder whether a recent ... More About: News , Life , Death penalty
Trial Date Set for Tim Hennis
2007-09-19 22:40:00 News Update 09.19.07 North Carolina A tentative June 1, 2008 trial date has been set for Timothy Hennis. Hennis will stand trial in a Ft. Bragg military court for a 1985 triple murder of which he was acquitted in civilian court. There will be a motions hearing in January, at which time the judge might ... More About: News , Trial , Death penalty
Council of State to Decide Lethal Injection Issue
2007-09-17 16:15:00 News Update 09.17.07 North Carolina Back in August, the Council of State was ordered to reconsider its decision to approve the new lethal injection protocol. Last week, the Council announced that it will take this under advisement - and render a final decision - at its October 2nd meeting. The Council is not allowing live testimony, ... More About: News , Death penalty
Future Dean Sacked Over Death Penalty Views
2007-09-13 18:25:00 News Update 09.13.07 North Carolina Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke Law School’s own god of constitutional law, signed a contract on September 4th to become the first dean of the new law school at UC-Irvine. Yesterday, the school rescinded their offer, apparently upset over Chemerinsky’s criticism of the DOJ’s plan to give the Attorney General more control over ... More About: News , Views , Future , Death
Dead Man Walking?Away From Death Row
2007-09-11 16:06:00 News Update 09.11.07 North Carolina Twelve years after being sentenced to die, Charles Walker is off of death row. Walker was hours away from execution in 2004. In 2006, a judge found that the State withheld vital evidence from Walker’s defense team and that one of Walker’s co-defendants lied on the stand. Instead of ... More About: News , Dead Man , Walking , Death
Two Lives Spared in Winston-Salem
2007-09-06 18:27:00 News Update 09.06.07 North Carolina Two Forsyth County men entered life-saving guilty pleas yesterday. Kohumna Hoyle, 34, was sentenced to life without parole in the death of his son, Raynell. Hoyle’s bipolar illness may have contributed to the child’s death. Daniel Learmond Hayes, 21, will spend the rest of his life in prison for ... More About: News , Death penalty , Lives , Salem
Living on Borrowed Time
2007-09-04 21:58:00 News Update 09.04.07 North Carolina The Greensboro News-Record wades into the “death penalty briar patch.” James Thomas was supposed to be dead seven months ago. The News and Observer takes a look at Thomas and five other men whose lives have been extended by the current pause in executions. Some say it’s justice delayed. Thomas ... More About: Living , Time
People on North Carolina?s Death Row
2007-09-04 20:51:00 DOC # Last Name First Name Sex Race 1 0234897 Laws Wayne A. M W 2 0207779 Jennings Patricia W. F W 3 0288088 Moore Blanche T. F W 4 0265106 McCollum Henry L. M B 5 0351933 Rose Clinton R. M W 6 0100579 Davis Edward E. M W 7 0353186 Rouse Kenneth B. M B 8 0339314 Reeves Michael M. M W 9 0347839 Robinson Eddie C. M B 10 0264009 McCarver Ernest P. M W 11 0294214 Moseley Carl M W 12 0084604 Conaway John L. M B 13 0039561 Bowie Nathan M B 14 0039569 Bowie William M B 15 0057308 Burkes Rayford L. M B 16 0058316 Burr John M W 17 0104984 Decastro Eugene M B 18 0156518 Gregory Warren M B 19 0251740 Lynch David M W 20 0021418 Barrett Jeffrey M B 21 0030124 Best Norfolk M B 22 0063592 Campbell James M W 23 0141374 Garner Daniel M W 24 0099090 Daughtry Johnny R. M W 25 0054499 Buckner George C. M W 26 0441726 Williams James E. M W 27 0149506 Goode George E. M B 28 0343075 Richardson Martin A. M B 29 0012311 Atkins Randy L. M W 30 0153... More About: People , North Carolina , North , Death , Death penalty
Executions - September 2007
2007-09-03 17:36:00 5 - Tony Roach (TX) 12 - Daryl Holton (TN) 13 - Joseph Lave (TX) 18 - Terrick Nooner (AR - volunteer - stay likely) 18 - John Spirko (OH - stayed) 19 - Mark Duane Edwards, Jr. (PA - stay likely) 20 - Clifford Kimmel (TX) 25 - Ralph Stevens Baze (KY) 25 - Michael Richards (TX) 26 - Jerome Harbison (TN) 27 ... More About: September , Executions , September 2007 , Sept , Execution
North Carolina Seeks Death Penalty Against Woman
2007-08-31 18:37:00 News Update 8.31.07 North Carolina Wake County prosecutors have announced their intention to seek death against Monique Berkley for the murder of her husband. One of Berkley’s co-defendants pleaded guilty earlier this week, the other will be testifying for the prosecution in exchange for a promise not to seek the death penalty. There are four ... More About: News , Death , Woman
Kenneth Foster Spared
2007-08-30 19:33:00 Thanks to the hard work of thousands of people from around the globe, the life of Kenneth Foster has been saved. Foster was scheduled to die tonight for a 1996 Texas murder. Many said that Foster should not be executed because he was not the shooter, only the getaway driver. Foster ... More About: News , Death penalty , Spar
A Brief History of Capital Punishment in North Carolina
2007-08-29 20:17:00 Early America Colonists brought the practice of capital punishment with them from England. Many of the crimes that had been death-eligible in England - robbery, burglary, arson, counterfeiting, theft, and of course murder ? were quickly made capital in the common law. The colonies also executed people for other crimes, including witchcraft, aiding a ... More About: History , North Carolina , North , Death penalty , Carolina
Good News Edition
2007-08-28 15:34:00 News Update 08.28.07 Excuse me while I pry myself down from the rafters. North Carolina Three North Carolina men who had been facing the death penalty were spared yesterday. * In Gaston County, Samuel Mayfield obtained a plea to second-degree murder. * In Hoke County, a jury unanimously decided against imposing the death penalty on Kelvin Ray Smith. * In Wake ... More About: News , Good News , Death penalty , Good
Life Sentence for Lowry
2007-08-27 16:14:00 News Update 8.27.07 North Carolina A victory in Pasquotank County - a jury took just over half an hour to decide that Donald Carlton Lowry does not deserve to die. He was sentenced instead to life without parole. Love Lived on Death Row will be showing in the multipurpose room of Central Carolina Community College’s Pittsboro Campus ... More About: News , Life , Death penalty
The Easter Bunny Made Me Do It
2007-08-23 15:46:00 News Update 8.23.07 North Carolina In Pasquotank County, things got a little colorful at the trial of Donald Carlton Lowry. At the climax of his closing argument, District Attorney Frank Parrish picked up the murder weapon, a baseball bat, and slammed it down on the defense table so hard that a sliver of wood flew off. ... More About: News , Easter , Easter Bunny , Death penalty
Current Cases in NC
2007-08-22 17:08:00 News Update 8.22.07 North Carolina There are presently at least two capital murder trials underway in North Carolina. In Hoke County, Kelvin Ray Smith has been convicted of robbery and murder charges and is moving into the sentencing phase of his trial. In Wake County, jury selection has begun for the trial of Andrew Canty. Meanwhile, ... More About: News , Current , Death penalty , Cases
Floyd Brown to Get Day in Court
2007-08-20 16:54:00 News Update 8.20.07 North Carolina Good news for Floyd Brown . Durham County Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson, Jr. has set a hearing for October 8th to determine whether Brown’s continued detention is legal. Brown has been awaiting trial on a murder charge for 14 years. District Attorney Michael Parker has refused to drop the ... More About: News , Death penalty
Free Floyd Brown, Part II
2007-08-16 18:17:00 Background As discussed in a prior post, Floyd Brown , an innocent mentally retarded man, has been locked up for 14 years without a trial. He has been held at the state mental hospital since 1993 in connection with the murder of an Anson County woman. Until the Supreme Court banned the execution of the ... More About: News , Commentary , North Carolina , Free
Justice Department Greases the Fast Track to Death
2007-08-16 16:30:00 News Update 8.16.07 North Carolina In an editorial, The Fayetteville Observer advocates for continued stays of execution while the lethal injection quagmire is worked out. Elsewhere Tennessee Supreme Court ruling will allow the execution of some mentally retarded defendants. Mental retardation is a condition that, by definition, must manifest itself before the age of 18. Therefore, the ... More About: News , Justice , Justice Department , Department
Floyd Brown Update
2007-08-16 15:45:00 Attorneys for Floyd Brown (see prior discussion here) have filed a habeas corpus petition seeking his release. (For nonlawyers: In Latin, “habeas corpus” roughly means “bring the body.” The idea is that a federal court can ask a state prison to (figuratively) bring a prisoner to the court so that it can be ... More About: Update
UNC-CH Presents Death Penalty Series
2007-08-14 16:59:00 News Update 8.14.07 North Carolina The fine folks at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Summer Reading Program have set up an impressive series of death penalty-related events and performances spanning the next year. This month: * August 20 (Monday) - An Evening with Nick Yarris, 7:00 p.m., F.P.G. Student Union Great Hall Come hear special guest Nick ... More About: News , Presents , Series , Death
Council of State Ordered to Reconsider Lethal Injection
2007-08-13 20:27:00 News Update 8.13.07 North Carolina Death row inmate Eric Queen, age 28, died at Central Prison last week of an apparent suicide. Mental illness likely played a role in his death. It has been over a decade since there was a successful suicide on North Carolina’s death row. In a major development, Senior Administrative Law Judge ... More About: News , Death penalty , Council , State
Free Floyd Brown
2007-08-02 18:34:00 Imagine you have been accused of a crime you didn’t commit. Now imagine that you can’t defend yourself because your IQ makes you the mental equivalent of a five or six-year-old child. You can’t tell time. You can’t spell your own name. But somehow, police say, you gave them a lengthy ... More About: Commentary , North Carolina , Free , Brown , Death penalty
What Mass Incarceration Means for America
2007-08-01 17:48:00 News Update 8.01.07 North Carolina Nothing to report. Elsewhere Even Alabama prosecutors are starting to question whether the death penalty “is a wise and humane use of our resources.” Billy Hill, the former DA of Shelby County, is concerned that sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to who is sentenced to death and who isn’t. He ... More About: News , America , Death penalty , Mass
Executions - August 2007
More articles from this author:2007-08-01 16:54:00 7 - James T. Williams (PA - stay likely) 15 - Kenneth Parr (TX) 16 - Leonard Young (TN - stay likely) 21 - Frank Duane Welch (OK) 22 - Johnny Conner (TX) 23 - Luther Jerome Williams (AL) 28 - Daroyce Mosley (TX) 29 - John Joe Amador (TX) 30 - Kenneth Foster (TX) More About: Death penalty , August , August 2007 , Executions , Execution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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