United States 2017
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News on United States in 2017
- MAY 10, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Statistical Brief from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Documents U.S. Death Penalty Decline.
USA - New Statistical Brief from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Documents U.S. Death Penalty Decline.
- MAY 6, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences
USA - America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences
MAY 6, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: THE STEADY DECLINE OF AMERICA’S DEATH ROWS
The Washington Post reported the highlights of a study by the Sentencing Project: “Still Life: America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences”.
- MAY 5, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - "Death Row USA Winter 2017" updated to January 1, 2017.
USA - "Death Row USA Winter 2017" updated to January 1, 2017.
- APRIL 27, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - The House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to expand the federal death penalty.
USA - The House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to expand the federal death penalty.
- APRIL 14, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Pharma firms try to stop use of their products in Arkansas executions.
USA - Arkansas. Pharma firms try to stop use of their products in Arkansas executions.
- APRIL 10, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - South Carolina. Dylann Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences
USA - South Carolina. Dylann Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences
- APRIL 3, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness
USA - 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness
APRIL 3, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: EXECUTIONS DISPROPORTIONATELY INVOLVE PRISONERS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abu
- MARCH 28, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas' Standard for Determining Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases.
USA - Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Texas' Standard for Determining Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases.
- MARCH 18, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Guantanamo Judge Setting USS Cole Bombing Trial for 2018.
USA - Guantanamo Judge Setting USS Cole Bombing Trial for 2018.
MARCH 18, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: GUANTANAMO JUDGE SETTING USS COLE BOMBING TRIAL FOR 2018
Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge in the USS Cole bombing case, said he would set a 2018 trial date for the death-penalty case.
- MARCH 13, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Inventor of Midazolam Opposes Its Use in Executions.
USA - Inventor of Midazolam Opposes Its Use in Executions.
- MARCH 7, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Reports Find Record Number of Exonerations in 2016
USA - Reports Find Record Number of Exonerations in 2016
- MARCH 7, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA: REPORTS FIND RECORD NUMBER OF EXONERATIONS IN 2016, BLACKS MORE LIKELY TO BE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED
Reports released by the National Registry of Exonerations found record numbers of exonerations and wrongful convictions involving official misconduct in 2016, and striking evidence of racial bias both in the wrongful convictions themselves and in the time
- FEBRUARY 27, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Supreme Court snubs challenge to death penalty constitutionality.
USA - Supreme Court snubs challenge to death penalty constitutionality.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA: SUPREME COURT SNUBS CHALLENGE TO DEATH PENALTY CONSTITUTIONALITY
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty as
FEBRUARY 22, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTYUS SUPREME COURT GRANTS TEXAS DEATH ROW INMATE DUANE BUCK NEW HEARING
Saying that the "law punishes people for what they do, not who they are," the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-2 to order a new sentencing for Duane Buck, a Texas death-row prisoner.
- FEBRUARY 21, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - ANA Releases New Position Statement Opposing Capital Punishment.
USA - ANA Releases New Position Statement Opposing Capital Punishment.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2017MassachusettsDEATH PENALTY
USA - US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin Formally Sentenced Gary Lee Sampson to Death.
USA - US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin Formally Sentenced Gary Lee Sampson to Death.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Trump's Supreme Court Pick. Judge Neil Gorsuch, has sided with the government in several recent and important execution cases
USA - Trump's Supreme Court Pick. Judge Neil Gorsuch, has sided with the government in several recent and important execution cases
- JANUARY 17, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 18 Arrested at Anti-Death Penalty Protest.
USA - 18 Arrested at Anti-Death Penalty Protest.
- JANUARY 17, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - President Obama Commutes Death Sentences of Abelardo Arboleda Ortiz and Dwight Loving
USA - President Obama Commutes Death Sentences of Abelardo Arboleda Ortiz and Dwight Loving
JANUARY 17, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: PRESIDENT OBAMA COMMUTES TWO DEATH SENTENCES
President Barack Obama commuted the death sentences of Abelardo Arboleda Ortiz, a federal death row prisoner, and Dwight Loving, a military death row prisoner.
- JANUARY 11, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - South Carolina. U.S. Judge Richard Gergel has formally sentenced Dylann Roof to death
USA - South Carolina. U.S. Judge Richard Gergel has formally sentenced Dylann Roof to death
JANUARY 10, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: DYLANN ROOF SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDERS OF NINE BLACK CHURCH MEMBERS
Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who shot dead nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to death by a federal jury.
- JANUARY 9, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Massachusetts. A federal jury has sentenced Gary Lee Sampson to death
USA - Massachusetts. A federal jury has sentenced Gary Lee Sampson to death
- JANUARY 1, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
To date, the death penalty no longer exists in 18 of the 50 U.S. States
To date, the death penalty no longer exists in 18 of the 50 U.S. States
- JANUARY 1, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pfizer Blocks the Use of Its Drugs in Executions.
USA - Pfizer Blocks the Use of Its Drugs in Executions.