{"id":1307,"date":"2011-09-21T21:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/blog_news\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2011-09-21T21:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:18:44","slug":"death-penalty-cleve-foster-troy-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/2011\/09\/21\/death-penalty-cleve-foster-troy-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Death Penalty on “Death Row”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time in a week the US Supreme Court<\/strong> has stayed the execution<\/strong> of a prisoner.\u00a0 Just a few hours before the scheduled execution of Cleve Foster in Texas<\/strong>, the Supreme Court stayed his execution.\u00a0 The High Court is considering whether to grant Certiorari in Foster’s case.\u00a0 Cleve Foster, an army recruiter,\u00a0 was\u00a0 convicted of raping and murdering a woman he met at a Fort Worth bar.\u00a0 This is the third stay granted<\/strong> by the Supreme Court in this case.\u00a0 Foster maintains his innocence.<\/p>\n

[notice]Update September 22, 2011: Supreme Court denied the request for stay of execution for Troy Davis who was executed<\/a> September 21, 2011.[\/notice]<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court also granted a stay of execution<\/strong> earlier this week in the\u00a0 case of Duane Edward Buck<\/strong>, who argues his sentence was tainted by expert testimony that he was more likely to re-offend because he is black.<\/p>\n

It is reported that Texas Governor Rick Perry has “overseen more executions than any governor in modern history”.<\/p>\n

[important]All of these cases have one common thread: Was there a flaw in the judicial process that was fundamentally unfair to the Defendant.\u00a0 It is unusual that the Supreme Court would stay three (3) executions in such a short span of time.\u00a0 Is the Court engaged in a trend, or is it just a matter of coincidental timing?[\/important]<\/p>\n

It would not be the first time that the death penalty has been highly criticized and scrutinized<\/strong> by the Supreme Court.\u00a0 For instance The Court’s\u00a0 opinion in Furman v. Georgia<\/span><\/a> held that the imposition of the death penalty in these cases constituted cruel and unusual punishment<\/strong> and violated the Constitution. In over two hundred pages of concurrence and dissents, the justices articulated their views on this controversial subject. Only Justices Brennan and Marshall believed the death penalty to be unconstitutional in all instances. Other concurrences focused on the arbitrary nature with which death sentences have been imposed, often indicating a racial bias against black defendants. The Court’s decision forced states and the national legislature to rethink their statutes for capital offenses<\/strong> to assure that the death penalty<\/strong> would not be administered in a capricious or discriminatory manner.<\/p>\n

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Death Penalty Justice?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some critics say that when the Supreme Court re-instituted the death penalty in 1976<\/strong> in a brief per curiam opinion, it\u00a0 assumed a lot of\u00a0 virtue and goodness in the present and future participants of the criminal justice system. the death penalty has always been a hotly debated and disputed issue.\u00a0 In recent years we have seen numerous death row inmates freed because DNA evidence proved there innocence<\/strong>, or at least provided much reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

The real question is will the Supreme Court kill off the death penalty or severely limit its application? <\/strong>This is an issue that affects many of us, we welcome your comments and views on this subject.<\/p>\n

For more information on this issue and sources fro this article read Andrew Cohen’s article<\/a> in The Atlantic, and ABA article<\/a> posted September 19, 2011<\/p>\n

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