Death row refers to the section of a prison that houses inmates who have been sentenced to death for the crime they were convicted of.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state panel on Wednesday denied clemency for an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago, paving the way for his lethal injection next month.
In that time, roughly 740 more inmates will be added to death row, an additional fourteen executions will be carried out, and more than five hundred death-row inmates will die of old age or other causes before the state executes ... AL Alarcon,PM Mitchell - 《Loy.l.a.l.rev》 被引量...
By BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE
One of the most troubling aspects of the death penalty is the potential for wrongful convictions, which can result in the irreversible loss of innocent lives. The exoneration of numerous death row inmates through DNA evidence and new technologies has highlighted the fallibility of the justice system...
However, in most other cases, defendants either hadn’t gone to trial or hadn’t been sentenced yet. Forty-four inmates are on federal death row, and Justice Department lawyers have generally fought all their efforts to have their death sentences thrown out. Rodriguez’s previous death ...
By reference to the Singleton case, this article will analyse in both moral and legal terms the controversial justifications of the enforced medical treatment of death-row inmates. Starting with a description of the Singleton case, I will highlight the prima facie reasons for which this case is...
Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them.
According to statcan.gc.ca, the highest costs associated with dealing with inmates is in the northern territories, where food and lodging costs soar in comparison to the lower 10 provinces. The Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut spend $366, $382, and $594 per day respectively. Provincial...
Jeremy Bentham's 1791 panopticon—a design that enabled a centralized view of all inmates in a prison—is a classic example of how built spaces launch discourses of omniscient power, surveillance, and control (Foucault, 1977; Leone, 1995). The panoptician notion of watching and being watched ...