DP9
A blog produced by the Oregon Justice Resource Center discussing the death penalty (capital punishment) in Oregon and in the Ninth Circuit.
Category Archives: International Law
Montana update 1/2/13 (Ronald Smith death-row clemency case not likely to be resolved until new governor takes over)
Ronald Smith death-row clemency case not likely to be resolved until new governor takes over Montana’s outgoing governor has given the clearest signal yet that he won’t be granting clemency to … Continue reading
40 Years After Furman
From the ACLU Forty Years after Furman: Still “Fastened to the Obsolete” We celebrate this day 40 years ago, when the Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, declared the death penalty … Continue reading
EU set to restrict sale of lethal injection drugs to U.S.
Beginning Friday exports of the anesthetic drug sodium thiopental, a drug used by many states in lethal injections, will only be possible with special permission. The Official Journal of the … Continue reading
Life on Death Row: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1989 that living for decades on death row violates the European Convention of Human Rights bar on torture or “inhuman or degrading … Continue reading
Previous Posts
- Under Construction
- Texas executes Elroy Chester
- Florida executes William Van Poyck
- Oral Argument: State of Oregon v. Michael Spencer Washington, Jr.(6/4/13)
- RONALD DEERE V. VINCE CULLEN (9th Circuit) 6/3/13
- California update 5/30 (California’s death penalty on hold again)
- Florida executes Elmer Carroll
- Nevada Update 5/29 (Death penalty audit clears Nev. Senate panel)
- Texas executes Jeffrey Demond Williams
- Arizona update 5/10 (Arizona death-row inmate dies of apparent suicide)
