Moving Forward in the Capital Punishment Debate: CJLF's Kent pentobarbital in lethal injections. Kent also discusses delays in capital cases, specifically post-trial litigation that can take decades and mostly involve claims related to the sentence, with little relevance to the actual crime. See a previous post here about pentobarbital-only executions.
New Hampshire Bill Would Make Fatal Home Invasions a Death Penalty Eligible Crime: The Associated Press reports a bill that would expand the state's death penalty to cover fatal home invasions was passed in the New Hampshire House on Tuesday. The bill is named after Kimberly Cates, who was killed by a machete and knife attack during a home invasion that also left her daughter maimed. New Hampshire currently has only six types of murder that are death penalty eligible under the state's statue. The last expansion was in 1994, when the killing of a judge was added. The last execution in New Hampshire was in 1939.
White House Makes Recommendations to Congress for Tougher Prison Sentences: Jennifer Martinez of Politico reports that Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, presented a set of 20 suggestions to Congress on Tuesday for addressing intellectual property problems and passing legislation requiring tougher sentences for certain IP crimes, which, according to Espinel, have shorter prison sentences and a high profit margin compared to other offenses.
New Hampshire Bill Would Make Fatal Home Invasions a Death Penalty Eligible Crime: The Associated Press reports a bill that would expand the state's death penalty to cover fatal home invasions was passed in the New Hampshire House on Tuesday. The bill is named after Kimberly Cates, who was killed by a machete and knife attack during a home invasion that also left her daughter maimed. New Hampshire currently has only six types of murder that are death penalty eligible under the state's statue. The last expansion was in 1994, when the killing of a judge was added. The last execution in New Hampshire was in 1939.
White House Makes Recommendations to Congress for Tougher Prison Sentences: Jennifer Martinez of Politico reports that Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, presented a set of 20 suggestions to Congress on Tuesday for addressing intellectual property problems and passing legislation requiring tougher sentences for certain IP crimes, which, according to Espinel, have shorter prison sentences and a high profit margin compared to other offenses.
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