Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs will be speak at an event organised by the Trinity College Dublin Law Society on Monday next, 24th October. Dannie Hanna who has blogged about death penalty issues on HR in I will also be speaking about his experiences working on behalf of death row inmates in Texas. Sunny Jacobs was convicted of murder and sentenced to(…)
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Update: Troy Davis' Bid for Clemency Denied
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole has rejected Troy Davis’ appeal for clemency. Because the Georgia governor has no power to stay executions this was Troy’s final hope. He is due to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow Wednesday 21st September 2011. This will be the fourth time he has faced the death penalty. More than(…)
Troy Davis Clemency Hearing Scheduled for Monday
I have blogged (see here and here) about the story of Troy Davis, a man who has been on death row in Georgia, USA for over two decades. Davis is scheduled to be executed next Wednesday. Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of off-duty police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. There was no physical or(…)
US Supreme Court refuses Troy Davis’ Appeal Against Death Penalty
Readers of HRinI might be familiar with the story of Troy Davis, a man who has been on death row in Georgia, USA for over two decades. Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of off-duty police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. There was no physical or forensic evidence linking Davis to the crime and(…)
Zagorski: US Executions, UK Law and European Human Rights
Any case involving the death penalty in the United States and European human rights is likely to pique the interest of legal observers. The death penalty – still an accepted part of the criminal justice system in the United States – is considered to be a violation of human rights in Europe. In Soering v(…)
Hanna on the Death Penalty and the Texas Defender Service
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Dannie Hanna, a graduate of NUI Galway and Cambridge, who worked with the Texas Defender Service which represents people on death row during August-September 2010. In painting her vision of hope, as only she could, Emily Dickinson described hope as “the thing with feathers… [that] never(…)
Troy Anthony Davis and the Death Penalty
Troy Davis is a man on death row in the state of Georgia in the United States who has come to represent all that is wrong with capital punishment. Davis has endured three execution dates despite the fact that most of the prosecution witnesses have recanted their testimony since he was convicted in 1991. His case(…)
China Executes Mentally Ill Man
China has been roundly criticised for executing Akmal Shaikh, a 53 year old British national with a proven mental illness, at 2.30am GMT this morning. Mr. Shaikh was convicted of smuggling 4kg of heroin into China in September 2007. It is understood that he believed that he was travelling to China to record a hit(…)
The Death Penalty and Ireland
The former President of the High Court, Mr. Justice Richard Johnson has called for the Irish constitutional ban on the death penalty to be “reconsidered”. This follows on from recent debate in the U.K. (See Pádraig’s post on this here) and also from Channel 4′s recent documentary, The Execution of Gary Glitter. Article 15.5.2 of(…)