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18 Φεβ 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.
On 22 May 1992, Roger Coleman was put to death by the state of Virginia. Years after his conviction, new evidence was uncovered which implicated a different suspect
27 Δεκ 2018 · Drawing from documentary research, interview data with leading capital defense practitioners, and analytical observations based on my own experience as a mitigation specialist, this article presents itself as a case study of the processes of mutually constitutive rupturing that reconfigure the categories of the legal and the human.
We push this concern further, suggesting that both abolitionists and death penalty reformers, who seek to promote a “scientific” death penalty centered on DNA evidence, draw upon a mythologized notion of “science” as a producer of epistemic certainty.
Case Summaries for Modern Federal Death Sentences. Inmates Sentenced Under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988: Richard Tipton, James H. Roane, Jr. — All Black. Tipton, Roane, and their co-defendant Corey Johnson were members of an inner-city gang in Richmond, VA.
27 Δεκ 2022 · Most death penalty opponents endorse the right to use deadly force when necessary, in self-defense or defense of others, to stop an aggressor’s unjust threat of death or serious bodily injury (e.g., Paul 1995: §55). Except for pacifists, the right to life still permits defensive killing.
24 Νοε 2020 · Here, we focus on some key “proximate causes” of death penalty trials and the outcomes of death penalty trials—namely, the decision-making that leads to a death penalty trial taking place, the decision-making during a death penalty trial, and the factors that shape both.
