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Feb 18, 2021 · Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them. Top row, left to right:...
- Phillip Morris
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Oct 28, 2022 · The photographer Boris Mikhailov in 2015. “War kills our life,” he said this summer. “It kills the meaning of life, it kills the past, it kills the future.”. Vita Mikhailov. This summer ...
- Nixon’s ‘War on Crime’
- A Labyrinthine Process
- Death Row – at Bursting Point
- No Law Against Executing The Innocent
- When Justice Is Unjust
- ‘could You See Yourself Voting That Someone Should Die?’
- ‘At His Last Meal, He Said He Would Save Dessert For Later’
- A ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Punishment
The US had come close to abolition in 1972, when the Supreme Court ruled in Furman v Georgia that the system was arbitrary. Writing for the majority, Justice Potter Stewart wrote: “These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. For, of all the people convicted of rapes and murders in...
Once, the US system of justice seemed to be very deliberate compared with the timeline of the last British hanging: Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans allegedly killed John West on April 7, 1964, when he refused to lend them money. The trial began on June 21 and swiftly ended in a death sentence for each of them. The appeal was heard on July 20 and denie...
When a dam bursts, it can wreak havoc in a manner totally inconsistent with its purpose. The Banqiao Dam was one of a series constructed in China to promote the “Great Leap Forward”. When it burst in 1975, it caused as many as 250,000 deaths and destroyed more than six million homes. Likewise, Death Row–USA is in a state of dangerous flood. With 2,...
It is a shame when death is imposed on the basis of ideology. Unfortunately, there is another reason that the Supreme Court is so out of touch with reality: not a single justice since Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1993, has had any practical experience of criminal law. While justices pay lip service to the dangers of executing someone after a pate...
There are many underlying reasons why the justice system reaches an unjust result. I call them the Seven Deadly Sins of the Death Penalty, but actually there are many. Of the 174 death row exonerations, only 28 were proven by DNA evidence; more commonly, jurors were biased, defence lawyers had failed in their job, prosecutors had hidden exculpatory...
One of the ironies of the changing attitudes towards the death penalty is that juries are inevitably becoming more skewed against the defendant. In 1985, in Wainwright v Witt, the Supreme Court set the standard for excluding jurors from a capital trial: if you will not swear, when questioned by the judge, that you will impose a death sentence if yo...
In the hand-to-hand combat of the trenches, we have won many victories. I am immensely glad that I left the US to return to the UK in 2004 without having any of my clients on death row. Even on the wider lawfare battlegrounds, from time to time we have made progress. In 2002, in Atkins v Virginia, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of those d...
At the end of it all, there is the desperate search for a way of killing people that might seem civilised. The first execution I had to witness – of Edward Johnson – took place in the Mississippi Gas Chamber in 1987. By way of revenge, in 1995, I brought suit on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – Mississippi used Zyclon B too – a...
- Clive Stafford Smith
Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe (/ ˈ k oʊ dʒ uː /; born March 8, 1973) is a German actor and former model best known for his roles as Kelby in the 2002 film Brown Sugar, the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food, Dr.
YearTitleRoleNotes2022HimselfSeries regular2019Robert SullivanEpisode: "What I Did For Love" Episode: ...2019HimselfEpisode: "Boris Kodjoe vs. Nicole Ari ...2018Brett ColeRecurring; 4 episodesHe committed suicide 24 February 1978 at the age of sixty-seven, and was buried in the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois where many émigrés - including Somov - are buried. Snejkovsky and his mother, Odessa, circa 1912. Snejkovsky and Somov, the latter working on the 1936 profile portrait seen above.
News. Sep 12, 2021. The number of people on death row or facing possible capital resentencing across the United States now matches a three-decade low, according to data compiled by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF) and analyzed by the Death Penalty Information Center. Read More.
Death Row Stories explores cases that pose hard questions about the U.S. capital punishment system.
