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State Supreme Court Overturns Fort Smith Manâs Death Sentence (Arkansas) |
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By John Lyon
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — A Fort Smith man sentenced to die for killing his girlfriend and her two children over the Christmas holiday in 2006 will get a new sentencing hearing.
The Arkansas Supreme Court today upheld James Aaron Miller’s conviction on three counts of capital murder but overturned his death sentence, ruling that errors occurred during the sentencing phase of Miller’s trial when witnesses told jurors they should impose the death penalty. |
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Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work in Frustration |
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By Adam Liptak
Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.
There were other important death penalty developments last year: the number of death sentences continued to fall, Ohio switched to a single chemical for lethal injections and New Mexico repealed its death penalty entirely. But not one of them was as significant as the institute’s move, which represents a tectonic shift in legal theory. |
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There Is No âHumaneâ Execution |
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Editorial, The New York Times
This is what passes for progress in the application of the death penalty: Kenneth Biros, a convicted murderer, was put to death in Ohio last week with one drug, instead of the more common three-drug cocktail. It took executioners 30 minutes to find a vein for the needle, compared with the two hours spent hunting for a vein on the last prisoner Ohio tried to kill, Romell Broom. Technicians tried about 18 times to get the needle into Mr. Broom’s arms and legs before they gave up trying to kill him. Mr. Biros was jabbed only a few times in each arm. |
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Study: End Death Cases, Save Millions |
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News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
If the state stopped trying to execute killers, it would free up $11 million a year, according to a study by a Duke University economist published this month. |
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Death Penalty Cases More Expensive than Lifetime Imprisonment |
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Death Penalty Cases More Expensive than Lifetime Imprisonment, but Local CDA Says Cost Never a Consideration (Texas)
By Logan Carver | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Legal experts and trial attorneys agree that most people outside the legal community don’t realize the high cost of the death penalty.
This fall, Gray County spent nearly $1 million seeking the death penalty against Levi King, who pleaded guilty to slaying a pregnant woman, her husband and her son. |
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