Death sentence decision could affect 800 inmates.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  June 25, 2002 ;     277 words ......vote declared that executing the mentally retarded in capital cases violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual...certain 'aggravating circumstances' that justify the death sentence. 'We hold that the Sixth Amendment secures to capital...Nebraska have no role in sentencing those convicted ...

Does Kansas tilt capital cases? US Supreme court is set to rehear a Kansas...

The Christian Science Monitor;  April 24, 2006 ;     602 words ......Supreme Court will approach capital cases following the departure...Amendment requires that in capital cases jurors make an individual...mitigating factors for a death sentence. The Supreme Court has...that jurors may impose a death sentence only when aggravating ...

A juror's duty/ It shouldn't include sentencing - in capital cases or any...

The Gazette;  August 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ......mete out punishment in capital cases. That was the system in...not much of a fan of the death penalty, balked; a compromise...gets life in prison or death. A death sentence requires a unanimous vote...for all crimes for which capital punishment isn't an option...decide the ...

Justices Split Over Death Penalty Appellate Process; Ruling Will Allow...

The Washington Post;  March 29, 1990 ;     500 words ......court judges considering capital punishment cases can weigh...decide whether to impose the death penalty if there has been...the jury has voted for a death sentence based in part on an invalid...decision of whether to impose a death sentence "by its very nature is ...

COURT AFFIRMS TWO CAPITAL CASES

United Press International;  September 23, 1998 ;     258 words ......International 09-23-1998 Court affirms two capital cases AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 (UPI) _ The...counties. The court today upheld the death sentence against Jorge Villanueva for the Aug...upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence against Leonard Uresti Rojas for the...

INMATE GETS DEATH SENTENCE.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  October 23, 2003 ;     141 words ......prosecutors appealed to demand stiffer punishment. Timothy Hancock's death sentence will be automatically appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court, as is required in capital cases. Hancock, 33, was convicted of the Nov. 13, 2000, slaying of cellmate...

Down on the death sentence? EXCLUSIVE: Law changes, attitude shift cut...

Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA);  September 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......possibility of parole in lieu of a death sentence, say defense attorneys and prosecutors. In many of our capital cases we accept pleas to life, said Ed...April, Hugo Selenski was spared a death sentence after a jury acquitted him of homicide...

Death Sentence Reinstated in 'Sleeping Lawyer' Case

The Washington Post;  October 28, 2000 ;     595 words ......court panel today reinstated the death sentence of a defendant whose murder case...Circuit voted to reinstate the death sentence. One of them was Judge Edith Jones...judges stopped assigning him to capital cases in the late 1980s. During Burdine...wrote. The ruling reinstated a ...

Getting out of this mess: steps toward addressing and avoiding inordinate...

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......processing of capital cases in California...imposition of a death sentence and the execution...of his or her death sentence. Part V addresses...inordinate delay in capital cases. The issue of...public at large in capital cases. II. CAPITAL ...

Review: Race A Key In Capital Cases

AP Online;  June 9, 2000 ;     503 words ......06-09-2000 Review: Race A Key In Capital Cases HOUSTON (AP) -- At least nine men were sent to death row in Texas after a psychologist recommended the death penalty partly because of...a review has found. The death sentence that prompted the review...especially in assessing the ...

DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED BY FEDERAL COURT.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ......to reinstate the death sentence of a man who murdered...in five years a death sentence in Washington has...state's pursuit of capital cases and the handling...overturned Jeffries' death sentence because of alleged...reinstatement of the death sentence will ...

DEATH PENALTY: 'LOOKING BLACK' CAN LEAD TO A DEATH SENTENCE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......tend to hand down the death penalty twice as often...that black defendants in capital cases receive the death sentence more frequently than...Black Defendants Predicts Capital Sentencing Outcomes...show format, of black capital-crime defendants in Philadelphia...overturn ...

Another Va. Death Sentence Tossed Out

The Washington Post;  March 2, 2002 ;     696 words ......Court unanimously overturned its fourth death sentence in 11 months yesterday, ruling that...seven justices now have sent back eight capital cases since 1999 for new trials or sentencing...proved much more willing to intervene in capital cases. Seven of the 11 executions scheduled...

Court Lifts Death Sentence In Another Va. Murder Case

The Washington Post;  March 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Court unanimously overturned its fourth death sentence in 11 months yesterday, ruling that...seven justices now have sent back eight capital cases since 1999 for new trials or sentencing...proved much more willing to intervene in capital cases. Seven of the 11 executions scheduled...

Neb. Court Overturns Death Sentence

AP Online;  January 25, 2002 ;     166 words ......Dateline: LINCOLN, Neb. A federal appeals court overturned the death sentence of a 21-year death row inmate Friday, saying the state's definition of exceptional depravity in capital cases is too vague. The 2-1 ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court...