Capital Defense Weekly
Discussions and rulings on cases of interest to criminal defense lawyers who handle death penalty cases.
Author: Karl R. Keys is criminal defense attorney in New Jersey. He also contributes to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Death Penalty
Recent Posts from Capital Defense Weekly
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Texecution
Governor Perry denied clemency tonight, despite the recommendation of his Board of Pardons and Parole. Texas, subsequently, executed Robert Lee Thompson for his role as the wheelman in a fatal Houston store holdup. The actual…
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One to watch: commutation recommended in Texas
The Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles on Thursday recommended a commutation to a life sentence for Robert Thompson. Thompson, 34, was sentenced to die in a law-of-parties case stemming from the December 1996 slaying…
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Texecution
In a case that many thought would get a stay, Texas Wednesday killed Danielle Simpson. From the wires: anielle Simpson, 30, had decided this summer to drop all his appeals in the case, effectively volunteering…
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We get mail
John Maki does new media work for midwest innocence projects, including the Center on Wrongful Convictions, the Wisconsin Innocence Project, the Ohio Innocence Project, and the Michigan Innocence Clinic. As part of his work, he…
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Texas stay held
via local media: Gerald Eldridge, 45, was condemned for the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend and her daughter nearly 17 years ago in Houston. Attorneys contended he was too mentally ill to receive lethal injection…
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Virginia kills
via the wires: A former Army counterintelligence worker has been executed by electric chair in Virginia for killing a couple in 2001. Larry Bill Elliott was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional…
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Cory Maye conviction vacated
From the wires: Cory Maye has won a new trial in the slaying of a Prentiss police officer because a judge denied Maye his constitutional right to be tried in south Mississippi’s Jefferson Davis County.…
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Case law review
[update] This week’s working draft of case law since the Nov. 2 is here. The Supreme Court for the second week in a row leads off an edition. On Monday the Court again entered in…
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LWOP & the Texas death penalty
Appearing in the Sunday Fort Worth Star-Telegram was a great look at Texas and LWOP: Death sentences have dropped sharply after life without parole became possible. “While the debate over capital punishment rages anew in…