Again, I've been negligent about my obituary updates (or just updates in general). Tonight I went to update with some general news about death penalty cases and I thought perhaps I should at least give note to those many executions since the last time I updated. Here they are.
Stanley Williams - California - December 13, 2006 - 51 years old
John Nixon - Mississippi - December 14, 2006 - 77 years old
Clarence Ray Allen - California - January 17, 2006 - 76 years old
Perrie Simpson - North Carolina - January 20, 2006 - 43 years old
Marion Dudley - Texas - January 25, 2006 - 33 years old
Marvin Bieghler - Indiana - January 27, 2006 - 58 years old
Jaime Elizalde - Texas - January 31, 2006 - 34 years old
Glenn Benner - Ohio - February 7, 2006 - 43 years old
Robert Neville, Jr. - Texas - February 8, 2006 - 31 years old
Clyde Smith, Jr. - Texas - February 15, 2006 - 32 years old
Tommie Hughes - Texas - March 15, 2006 - 31 years old
Patrick Moody - North Carolina - March 17, 2006 - 39 years old
Robert Salazar, Jr. - Texas - March 22, 2006 - 27 years old
Kevin Kincy - Texas - March 29, 2006 - 38 years old
Richard Thornburg - Oklahoma - April 18, 2006 - 40 years old
Willie Brown, Jr. - North Carolina - April 21, 2006 - 61 years old
Daryl Mack - Nevada - April 26, 2006 - 47 years old
Dexter Vinson - Virginia - April 27, 2006 - 43 years old
Joseph Clark - Ohio - May 2, 2006 - 57 years old
Jackie Wilson - Texas - May 4, 2006 - 40 years old
Jermaine Herron - Texas - May 17, 2006 - 27 years old
Jesus Aguilar - Texas - May 24, 2006 - 42 years old
John Boltz - Oklahoma - June 1, 2006 - 74 years old
Timothy Titsworth - Texas - June 6, 2006 - 34 years old
Lamont Reese - Texas - June 20, 2006 - 28 years old
Angel Maturino Resendiz - Texas - June 27, 2006 - 46 years old
Sedley Alley - Tennessee - June 28, 2006 - 51 years old
Derrick O'Brien - Texas - July 11, 2006 - 31 years old
Rocky Barton - Ohio - July 12, 2006 - 49 years old
William Downs - South Carolina - July 14, 2006 - 39 years old
Mauriceo Brown - Texas - July 19, 2006 - 31 years old
Robert Anderson - Texas - July 20, 2006 - 40 years old
Brandon Hedrick - Virginia - July 20, 2006 - 27 years old
Michael Lenz - Virigina - July 27, 2006 - 42 years old
There are 34 executions listed above, including 4 men under the age of 30. Of the 34 executions, 15 were in Texas.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
Nebraska and the Electric Chair - Carey Dean Moore
Nebraska is the only remaining state in the United States that offers the electric chair as its only form of execution. Recently, Carey Dean Moore, a Nebraska death row inmate challenged the use of the electric chair as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. Today, the Nebraska Supreme Court found that use of the electric chair in executions is NOT cruel and unusual punishment.
It flabbergasts me that anyone could find that electrocution is not cruel and unusual punishment. The risks involved in electrocution are tremendous. There are reports of inmates burning alive from the electrocution due to misapplication and of executions requiring higher and higher blasts of electricity to finally kill the execute (which of course means the inmate was alive throughout earlier attempts to kill him or her with high voltage electricity). This risks are enormous.
I lived in Nebraska for three years and was keenly aware that Nebraska was one of the few states (and then the only state) still using the electric chair as its exclusive option for execution. Today's ruling makes me tremendously sad.
That said, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in June that inmates can protest the combination of chemicals used in lethal injection as cruel and unusual also paves the way for a possible acceptance of certiorari for Carey Dean Moore. So, perhaps there is some hope for change.
For more information, I attach links to an AP article posted on CNN.com today regarding the Nebraska ruling and a June 18, 2006 opinion piece from the San Francisco Chronicle following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on lethal injection (written by Tom McNichol).
It flabbergasts me that anyone could find that electrocution is not cruel and unusual punishment. The risks involved in electrocution are tremendous. There are reports of inmates burning alive from the electrocution due to misapplication and of executions requiring higher and higher blasts of electricity to finally kill the execute (which of course means the inmate was alive throughout earlier attempts to kill him or her with high voltage electricity). This risks are enormous.
I lived in Nebraska for three years and was keenly aware that Nebraska was one of the few states (and then the only state) still using the electric chair as its exclusive option for execution. Today's ruling makes me tremendously sad.
That said, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in June that inmates can protest the combination of chemicals used in lethal injection as cruel and unusual also paves the way for a possible acceptance of certiorari for Carey Dean Moore. So, perhaps there is some hope for change.
For more information, I attach links to an AP article posted on CNN.com today regarding the Nebraska ruling and a June 18, 2006 opinion piece from the San Francisco Chronicle following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on lethal injection (written by Tom McNichol).
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