Governor Tom Corbett has just signed a death warrant to execute a man on October 3rd of this year…13 years after the last person was executed in Pennsylvania. Terrance Williams, now 46, is set to be executed for murdering Amos Norwood in 1984 when Williams was just 18 years old. Williams has appealed three times […]
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Man Executed in Texas was Most Likely Innocent
According to Columbia University law professor James Liebman, a man who was wrongly convicted of murder was executed in Texas in 1989. Texas has executed the most people out of any state, executing 482 of the 1,295 people who have been put to death nationwide since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. On February 4, […]
Connecticut poised to abolish the death penalty
The Connecticut Senate voted this morning to abolish the Death Penalty in that state. The Governor quickly went on record to make it very clear that he intends to sign the bill. He stated that the Death Penalty is not workable at all in Connecticut. One can easily draw a parallel to Pennsylvania, which spends […]
Pennsylvania Death Penalty Update: PA Supreme Court approves procedure for litigating Atkins mental retardation issues in death penalty cases
In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court case, Commonwealth v. Sanchez, the court declared that juries will have to rule when a defendant in a death penalty proceeding wants to argue that he is mentally disabled and therefore ineligible for execution. The high court upheld the death penalty for Abraham Sanchez Jr., who was convicted of […]
Penn State Interview on Death Penalty Litigation
Steven Fairlie of Fairlie & Lippy, P.C. in North Wales, Pennsylvania, was recently interviewed for a Penn State study about the death penalty. An excerpt follows: 1.) What is your position concerning the death penalty? Are you for or against it? I am against the death penalty. It is my belief that Pennsylvania spends a […]
