Posted by Curmilus Dancy II (Butch) on March 13, 2011
RALEIGH — An administrative law judge was right to order North Carolina’s statewide elected officials to revise the protocol for the execution of prisoners on death row, according to lawyers who are preparing to make that case to the state Supreme Court on Monday. (Read more)
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Posted by Curmilus Dancy II (Butch) on February 17, 2011
A courtroom technicality has cost a wrongly convicted Texas man the compensation that would otherwise be due him for the 18 years he’d served in Texas prison–14 of which he spent on Death Row.
Anthony Graves would have received $1.4 million in compensation if only the words "actual innocence" had been included in the judge’s order that secured Graves’s release from prison. (Read more)
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