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Commutation of the Death Sentence: Florida Steps Back from Justice and Mercy
... A DDING a chapter to Florida's long history of death sentence commutations, the Florida Clemency Board' recently over- hauled its Rules of Executive Clemency.' Alth[r] ...
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Diabetes Is Devastating, and Insulin Is a Death Sentence: Provider Perspectives of Diabetes Self-Management in Arab-American Patients
... providers described dependency on insulin as being equivalent to a death sentence. In addition, food traditions, which are central to the Arabic cul- ture, can both hinder and facilitate DSM. Food plays an ...
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THE VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT AND THIRTEEN YEARS OF DEATH SENTENCE REVIEW
... venireman stands indifferent in the cause must be resolved in favor of the accused. 9 7 The Justus supreme court did not rely on the Witherspoon 9 8 test used in Smith to determine th[r] ...
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Avoiding a Death Sentence in the American Legal System: Get a Woman to Do It
... 2 3 Brown stabbed her victim seventy-two times; she was sentenced to twenty-five years for first-degree murder.' 24 Brown could have been charged with capital murder[r] ...
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Eight Amendment Trial Court May Impose Death Sentence Despite Jury's Recommendation of Life Imprisonment
... Since Furman, however, the Court has approved jury sentencing.' 3 1 In addition, Justice Stevens noted that although in Florida a judge is not supposed to override the jury's decision ab[r] ...
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Schmitt v. Commonwealth 547 S.E.2d 186 (Va. 200[ 1])
... The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed each of Schmitt's convictions, and after reviewing Schmitt's death sentence, declined to commute the sentence of death! The court found tha[r] ...
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CRITICAL POINTS IN THE PROGRESS OF A CAPITAL CASE
... "because the [sentencer's] failure to consider all of the mitigating evidence risks erroneous imposition of the death sentence in plain violation of Lockett, it is our duty to [r] ...
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The American Death Penalty Decline
... in death sentences across all counties—and we generally find empirical evidence that supports this ...and death sentencing is far from exact (see Figures 4, 5, and 6 for an empirical overview), the two ...
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Atkins v. Commonwealth 581 S.E.2d 514 (Va. 2003)
... The Supreme Court of Virginia noted that the critical question with respect to the constitutionality of Atkins's death sentence is whether he suffers from mental retardation. 29 [r] ...
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Sanders v. Easley 230 F.3d 679 (4th Cir. 2000)
... conviction and North Carolina has had four opportunities to impose the death sentence on Stanley Sanders. The manifest necessity standard for the declaration of mistrial gives [r] ...
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Weeks v. Angelone 120 S. Ct. 727 (2000)
... a capital case arising out of a bench trial.' 6 In Eddings, the Court reversed the death sentence because, by refusing to consider mitigatig evidence, "it was a[r] ...
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Dubois v. Greene No. 97-21, 1998 WL 276282 (4th Cir. May 20, 1998)
... In Lankford, at all pertinent times Idaho statutes provided notice that a trial judge could impose a death sentence despite the prosecutor's unwillingness to recommend[r] ...
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VIRGINIA'S NEW STATE HABEAS: WHAT EVERY ATTORNEY NEEDS TO KNOW
... the Supreme Court of Virginia instead of the circuit courts. 5 Fortunately, state habeas petitioners facing a death sentence are now statutorily guaranteed appointment of cou[r] ...
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9/11 and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
... Furthermore, if a prisoner of war is finally convicted or if a sentence pronounced on a prisoner of war in the first instance is a death sentence, the Detaining Powe[r] ...
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Eighth Amendment The Death Penalty for Juveniles: A State's Right or a Child's Injustice
... states with capital punishment provisions, including Oklahoma, provide that juvenile offenders can theoretically receive a death sentence for certain crimes.' 20 With the federal governm[r] ...
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Johnson v. Commonwealth 591 S.E.2d 47 (Va. 2004)
... 49 After "considering both the crime and the defendant," the Supreme Court of Virginia concluded that Johnson's death sentence was proportionate to the sentences [r] ...
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TIME TO LET GO OF THE DOCTRINE OF ‘RAREST OF RARE’
... or death penalty is one of the rights of the government to hang someone to death, in heinous criminal ...where death penalty was awarded without a measure to decide who is to be given death ...
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Evolution of an Eighth Amendment Dichotomy: Substantive and Procedural Protections within the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause in Capital Cases
... 9 In assessing whether sufficient prejudice existed to warrant reversal of the conviction and death sentence, the Court empha- sized the existence of "considerable [r] ...
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Toward a New South Africa Without the Death Penalty—Struggles, Strategies, and Hopes
... Several submissions and repre- sentations were made to official bodies, including a memorandum to the SA Law Commission (on human rights, the death sentence, ap- pe[r] ...
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Race and Death Sentencing for Oklahoma Homicides Committed Between 1990 and 2012
... a death sentence, there was a strong correlation with the race of the victim, with cases with white victims significantly more likely to end with a death sentence than cases with non- white ...
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