Lisa Greenman of the Federal Resource Counsel Project and Jon Gould of George Mason University have prepared a report to the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Defender Services regarding the cost and quality of death penalty representation in federal cases. You can read the report below.
Archive for November, 2010
The Arizona Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction and sentence of Mike Gallardo. Read the entire opinion below.
Reversing earlier policy, UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has restricted the export of Sodium Thiopental, one of the drugs used in lethal injection. The restrictions came as a result of new information that the drug was being exported to the U.S. solely for use in the execution of death row inmates and was not being used for medical purposes.
From the Death Penalty Information Center:
Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith’s UK charity, has sued the British government in an attempt to ban the export of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in last month’s execution of Jeffrey Landrigan. Read more here.