Prosecutors Still Using Race To Choose Juries
By Cassandra Stubbs This week’s 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory…
Proposed Lethal Injection Regulations Flawed
By Linda Lye and Ana Zamora On Nov. 6, 2015, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation…
No Death Penalty Sought for KetMoRee Defendant, Arraignment Continued
by Tiffany Yeh All six co-defendants (who had been indicted by a grand jury) in the stabbing…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty Reinstated in California
Last week, a three-judge panel overturned a district court’s ruling that delays in California’s death penalty make…
Lethal Injection Déjà Vu?
by Ana Zamora Last Friday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) made public proposed regulations…
Governor Stays Glossip Execution Pending Review of Drug Protocols
Just over an hour before the scheduled execution of Richard Glossip, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin issued a…
Oklahoma Appeals Court Will Allow Execution of Glossip to Go Forward
While the attorneys for Richard Glossip plan to appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court today,…
New Witnesses Might Be Key to Glossip’s Death Penalty Case
A week and a half ago we wrote of an unusual coalition arguing in support of Richard…
Unusual Coalition Warns Oklahoma Governor About Impending Execution of An Innocent Person
By most accounts, it is a highly unusual coalition of people who wrote a letter this week…
Eye on the Courts: Changing Landscape for the Judicial System on Death Penalty, Police, Incarceration
Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on the Constitutionality of California’s Death Penalty Last year, U.S. District Judge…
My View: Life Sentence For Aurora Theater Gunman Shows the Death Penalty Is Dead
In June, US Supreme Court Justices sparred over the side issue of whether the death penalty ought…
Eye on the Courts: Fixing Our Criminal Justice System
Last week, we reported on research from University of Michigan economics professor Michael Mueller-Smith who, upon examining…
Monday Morning Thoughts: How Mass Incarceration Causes More Crime Than It Prevents
The argument against reforming the system of mass incarceration has been that it may be expensive and…
Eye on the Courts: Obama’s Turn on Mass Incarceration and Social Justice Issues
As I have stated many times on this site, I was expecting a lot more of President…
The Death Penalty’s Innocence Problem
By Cassandra Stubbs The demise of the death penalty is upon us. While the Supreme Court ruled…
Supreme Court Holds Line Allowing Execution Drug in a 5-4 Decision
The Supreme Court this year has taken a surprising though small turn to the left on a…
Eye on the Courts: Prosecutor Apologizes For Sending the Wrong Man to Death Row
At the outset, I recommend the readers read the full account of Attorney A.M. “Marty” Stroud III,…
Eye on the Courts: Problems of Race, Mental Illness Underlie Wrongful Convictions, Death Penalty
The protests and police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island have focused on the disproportionate black and…
Eye on the Courts: Pushing For Reform on LWOP and the Death Penalty
Last week, we discussed the state of life without parole for juvenile offenders, as Daniel Marsh was…
Motion Claims State’s Cheating Compels Court to Block Death Penalty
Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders, who will speak at the Vanguard’s event on Saturday, filed…
