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Successful Death Penalty Appeals

Posted by Marcia Shein
On July 1, 2019
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Alabama Criminal Appeals, death row, death sentence

According to a study of every person who received a death sentence since 1973, the most likely outcome for individuals facing this sentence is avoiding execution, often by having the death sentence overturned. More specifically, from 1973 to 2013, 8,466 death sentences were made by the United States Courts. Only 1,359 individuals were executed. 3,194 […]

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Soldier’s Death Row Case

Posted by Marcia Shein
On August 20, 2018
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death row, Federal Appeals: All Circuits And The Supreme Court, Felony Murder, military

Death Row Case Denied By Supreme Court In July of 2018, the United States Supreme Court announced that it will not hear the case of a former soldier who has received a death sentence. After the Supreme Court denied the man’s petition, the man has been left with few options to have his death sentence […]

Federal Appeal Court Declines to Halt Death Row Conviction

Posted by Marcia Shein
On August 1, 2018
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clemency, Death Penalty, death row, Federal Appeals

Federal Appeal to Death Row Conviction In July of 2018, a federal appeals court in Texas declined to slow down the execution of a prisoner who was convicted of killing a convenience store owner in 2004. Legal counsel for the defendant argued that his death row sentence should be halted because the man’s parole board […]

Understanding the Federal Death Row Appeal Process

Posted by Marcia Shein
On July 5, 2018
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Alabama Criminal Appeals, death row, Federal Criminal Appeals

Appeals To Death Row Cases A man who was convicted and received the death penalty for beheading his three children recently initiated the federal appeal process. The man was previously re-tried in 2010 after an appeals court reversed his conviction and sentence, but he was again convicted of capital murder and still received the death […]

Texas Appeals Court Rejects Death Row Inmate’s Appeal

Posted by Marcia Shein
On June 11, 2018
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death row, Federal Appeals

Texas Death Row Inmate Denied Appeal In May of 2018, a federal appeals court rejected a claim from a death row inmate in Harris County, Texas who was convicted of killing a law enforcement officer. The man was convicted after the 1998 crime of killing the off-duty police officer during a traffic incident that was […]

Federal Appeals in Death Row Cases

Posted by Marcia Shein
On April 27, 2018
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criminal defense attorneys, death row, Federal Appeals

A man convicted by a jury in 2008 for a murder that occurred in Texas and was sentenced to death recently asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to spare of his life, but the man was denied. During the man’s most recent effort to be placed off of death row, he argued that prosecutors […]