In the near future, our neighbors to the north could join the 18 other states that have repealed the death penalty. The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is working hard to educate their state on the enormous cost, unfairness, and risk of executing innocent people that is inherent in their death penalty system. Repeal legislation will be sponsored in Kentucky’s General Assembly next year and advocates are hopeful that a bill to end capital punishment will pass in 2015.

Witness to Innocence President and former death row inmate Randy Steidl is working with repeal supporters to make that happen. This month he’s traveling around the state and sharing his story with communities of faith, civic organizations, state lawmakers, and even fair-goers. “You can release a man from prison, but you can’t release him from the grave,” says Steidl, who was exonerated in 2004 after nearly 18 years of incarceration- 12 on death row, when an investigation revealed that police and prosecutorial misconduct led to his wrongful conviction.

Although Steidl was convicted in Illinois, finding errors in a capital case is not an unusual story in Kentucky. Of the 78 people that have been sentenced to death in the state since 1976, 50 have had their death sentence overturned- an error rate of more than 60 percent! A 2011 report by the American Bar Association that was compiled after a two-year review revealed “serious issues related to fairness and accuracy in the imposition of death sentences” in Kentucky and called for a temporary suspension of executions until those were addressed. A similar review was conducted in Tennessee in 2007 and found that out of 93 guidelines for a fair and accurate system, our state fully complied with only seven.

As more people learn about just how broken the system is, the momentum for repeal continues to grow. Six states in six years have ended the death penalty. Hopefully Kentucky can soon join that group, with many more to follow.

Photo of Randy Steidl via Floyd County Times

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The blog below was written last Thursday. Update: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to issue a stay and the state of Florida executed John Ferguson last night, Monday, Aug. 5 at 6:17 p.m. ET. You can read the statement issued by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) on the execution here.  Andrew Cohen also wrote this opinion editorial in The Atlantic which highlights the inconsistencies of the Supreme Court.

Florida death row inmate John Ferguson is scheduled to be executed on August 5^th despite a long history of severe mental illness. Ronald Honberg, the National Director for Policy and Legal Affairs for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), writes in his article for The Huffington Post that Ferguson’s execution would offend the Constitution and that his case represents failures of our mental health system.

“John Ferguson thinks he is the ‘Prince of God.’  He has thought so for decades. Mr. Ferguson believes that he can’t be killed and his body will not remain in a grave. Rather, he will assume his seat at the right hand of God, come back to life, and save America from a communist plot.

John Ferguson suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. In the terminology of the Supreme Court, he is ‘insane.'”

Ferguson, 65, has been on death row for 35 years, convicted of multiple murders committed shortly after his release from psychiatric institutional care despite warnings from his doctors of his extremely dangerous and homicidal state.

Seven different Florida psychiatrists have found Ferguson to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, delusions, and hallucinations. By setting his execution despite these findings, Florida is contradicting the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that prohibits executions of “a person who is insane and lacks a rational understanding of why he is being put to death and the effect of the death penalty.” Florida deemed Ferguson competent for execution on the basis that he is “factually aware of his impending execution.” As Honberg notes in his article, Florida has used an incorrect standard in this case because Ferguson still does not rationally understand the reasons for his execution or its effect. The Florida Supreme Court is, thus, not upholding the U.S. Supreme Court precedent if it applies an incorrect legal standard for competency.

Honberg also points to broader concerns arising from this case. “Mr. Ferguson’s case is proof positive of the failings of our mental health system, and if the State of Florida has its way, his execution will chillingly demonstrate the fatal injustices that people with mental illness face in our court system.”

It is now up to the Supreme Court to review the petition filed by Ferguson’s attorneys, review the case, and hopefully intervene.

Florida is not the only state where individuals with severe and persistent mental illness face execution. Tennessee also has sentenced individuals to death who suffer from severe and persistent mental illness. In fact, 60 Minutes on CBS first featured a story in 2007 on Gregory Thompson, an inmate on Tennessee’s death row, who must be medicated in order to be competent enough to execute.

Just two years ago, NAMI TN advocated for legislation in Tennessee that would exclude individuals with severe and persistent mental illness from the death penalty, making life without the possibility for parole the maximum punishment available. Though NAMI generated bi-partisan support, the bill never got out of committee. Given that pursuing the death penalty is far more expensive than the alternatives, perhaps states would be better served to eliminate the death penalty, particularly for these very ill individuals, and use the savings to ensure those with severe mental illness have access to the treatment that they need for as long as they need it to prevent such tragedies from happening in the first place.

Photo of FL death chamber via TCPalm.com

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered 27 death penalty cases in which experts at the FBI could have wrongfully linked defendants to crimes. The reviews are being launched with the concern that forensic experts may have exaggerated scientific conclusions and testimonies that led to convictions. The 27 cases were uncovered from an ongoing review launched last year of over 21,000 cases involving forensic evidence. It is too early to know if any of the cases resulted in wrongful convictions or if any are linked to death penalty sentences that have already been carried out, although the FBI has stated that they are interested in disclosing problems in any selected cases, even if the defendant has been executed.

The review has already led to a stay of execution for Willie Manning in Mississippi. An FBI agent at Manning’s trial testified that a hair found at the crime scene belonged to Manning, but the FBI later stated that the conclusion “exceeded the limits of science.” Hair evidence is of particular concern in the 27 cases. FBI lab reports have stated for decades that hair association cannot lead to positive identifications, but agents have still given testimony that different hairs have been a near certain match, even stating that hairs matched “to the exclusion of all others.”

The FBI is consulting with the Innocence Project, the Department of Justice, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on the cases and plans to notify prosecution and defense if any mistakes are uncovered. There is hope that this review will encourage state and local labs to undergo similar reviews. Any significant findings could also lead to a renewed debate on the risk of the U.S. executing innocent people.

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Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel stated last week that he believes “our death penalty system, as it currently exists, is completely broken.” Speaking at the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association summer convention, he said “I don’t think we are telling jurors the truth when we lead them to believe that they are sentencing someone to death when we really don’t have a viable system with which to execute someone.”

McDaniel, who supports the death penalty, said that the system has changed even since he took office in 2007. Arkansas’ most recent execution was in 2005, and while seven of the state’s 38 death row inmates have exhausted their appeals, none of them have execution dates set. The Attorney General laid out two reasons for the delay in the state’s use of capital punishment. The first is that the civil litigations brought against the state on aspects of the execution process have become very lengthy, further tying up the process even beyond appeals. Secondly, he states that “the drugs needed for lethal injection are simply not available for purchase by state prisons anymore,” as most of these drugs come from manufacturers in Europe, which has no death penalty, who don’t want the drugs used for executions. Some states still have stockpiles of the drugs but will no longer sell them to other states because of their limited access. Arkansas also faces the growing national problem of finding physicians to administer the drugs, as they are concerned about the ethics of the situation and about keeping their identities secret. Just yesterday a stay of execution was issued for Warren Hill in Georgia over issues of the lethal injection procedure.

McDaniel doesn’t believe that the courts would approve the use of an alternative method such as the electric chair, gas chamber, or firing squad, or that the majority of Arkansans would support those methods.

Looking forward, McDaniel pointed to the legislature and Arkansas’ Supreme Court as legitimate means for abolition stating, “It’s time for the policy makers of Arkansas to say, ‘Do we continue with a broken system and throwing money and resources at essentially pointless litigation, or do we modify the system?’ And there’s only really two modifications that I see available — it’s either abolish the death penalty or change the method of execution.”

While McDaniel is concerned about the system because of the difficulty in carrying out death sentences and not for issues of morality or unjust application, he recognizes the terrible consequences of the drawn out system on victim’s families. His remarks support a trend of leaders, including conservatives, concerned that the death penalty is beyond repair and leads to a waste of resources and less efficient state governments.

(Photo courtesy of Texarkana Gazette)

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Update (Wednesday, July 23): Georgia was unable to appeal the trial judge’s ruling on Friday to the Georgia Supreme Court because state lawyers did not receive the court reporter’s transcript from Thursday’s hearing on time. The state’s death warrant for Hill has now expired. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to review Hill’s petition that he is intellectually disabled in September. However, legal maneuvers could result in a new execution date before the Supreme Court hearing.

Update (Thursday, July 18): Today a Georgia judge ruled that the state’s new law shielding the source of lethal injection drugs interferes with Warren Hill’s right to challenge the method of execution. His stay of execution (which was rescheduled to July 19) has been extended. The state plans to appeal this ruling.

Update (Monday, July 15): Warren Hill’s execution has been stayed for now. During a hearing today, Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan scheduled another hearing for this Thursday, July 18 to consider challenges raised by Hill’s lawyer about the new Georgia law that keeps the identities of the doctors who prescribe the lethal injection drug and the manufacturer of it a secret.

In February, minutes before he was to be executed, Georgia death row inmate Warren Lee Hill was granted a stay. The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that further review was needed of new affidavits by state mental health experts who changed their minds about Hill’s mental capacity.

Mr. Hill has an IQ of 70 and is considered intellectually disabled. According to the 2002 U. S. Supreme Court decision Atkins v. Virginia, people with intellectual disability are to be excluded from execution because of their reduced culpability. However, the Supreme Court left it up to the states to define and determine intellectual disability and Georgia has the strictest requirement in the country: one must prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

In 2000, three doctors testified on behalf of the state that Hill did not meet the criteria for mental retardation, as it was called at the time, and instead diagnosed him with borderline intellectual functioning. This past February, however, those same doctors released sworn affidavits affirming that Hill is intellectually disabled, thus concurring with all other doctors who have examined him. Although this would appear to prove his intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt, it doesn’t seem to be enough. On April 23, 2013, an Eleventh Circuit panel in a 2-1 vote denied Hill’s habeas petition, finding that he did not meet the standards of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and so they could not consider the new evidence of his intellectual disability.

In May, Hill’s attorneys filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the U.S. Supreme Court and they are scheduled to review his petition on September 30. Despite this, last week, Georgia set another execution date for Hill for this coming Monday, July 15, at 7:00 p.m. ET. Hill’s lawyers filed a motion for a stay of execution with the Eleventh Circuit and it was denied on Tuesday. Warren Hill’s life now depends on an intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“All experts who have evaluated Warren Hill agree: he is mentally retarded,” said Brain Kammer, Hill’s attorney. “Mr. Hill’s execution would therefore be a grotesque miscarriage of justice and render the Eighth Amendment a mere paper tiger. This case presents the extraordinary circumstances where an individual who is ineligible for a capital sentence is about to be executed. Mr. Hill has no recourse left but to beg the nation’s highest court to intervene, and we trust and hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear his plea.”

Several individuals and organizations are speaking out against the execution of Warren Hill, including the family of the victim, President Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn Carter, the American Bar Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Two amicus briefs in support of Hill’s petition were also filed, including one from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and another filed by law professors with expertise on habeas corpus. In addition, several jurors who sat on Hill’s original jury have also stated under oath that they believe that life without parole is the appropriate sentence in this case. It was not offered to them as an option at trial in 1991.

The Georgia Department of Corrections announced today that it will get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy for the execution, though it is unknown what doctor is writing the prescription for the drug and what pharmacy or pharmacist will mix it. This is because Georgia recently passed a law that makes the name of any person or entity who participates in an execution a “confidential state secret.”

For more information on this case, please read and distribute this recent opinion editorial that appeared in The Atlantic. Please also sign this petition to Georgia’s Governor and Attorney General.

Photo via rawstory.com

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This past Saturday marked the 41st anniversary of Furman v. Georgia, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the imposition of the death penalty constituted cruel and unusual punishment and violated the Constitution. This case led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States. Today marks the 37th anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 that capital punishment did not violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments under all circumstances, therefore reinstating the death penalty.

In remembrance of these critical decisions, supporters of death penalty repeal (including an active supporter of TADP) have gathered in front of the Supreme Court for the past few days in order to raise awareness about the continued injustices of the death penalty and to call for an end to this broken policy. The four day event called “Starvin’ For Justice,” is in its 20th year and nearly 90 people are participating. Some are on a liquid-only fast to demonstrate their opposition to the death penalty and support for repeal.

(Photo of demonstrators in front of Supreme Court via The Blog of Legal Times)

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Today Kirk Noble Bloodsworth is celebrating 20 years of freedom. He was released from prison in 1993, becoming the first person in the U.S. who had spent time on death row and was freed because of DNA evidence.

Kirk was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1985 for the rape and murder of nine year old Dawn Hamilton based on circumstantial evidence and faulty eyewitness testimony. The following year the Maryland Court of Appeals overturned his conviction, finding that the prosecution had illegally withheld exculpatory evidence from the the defense. Kirk was tried and convicted again and was sentenced to life in prison.

In 1992, Kirk read about DNA fingerprinting, and was able to get prosecutors to agree to use it to test evidence that had been collected at the crime scene. The tests proved Kirk’s innocence and identified the real perpetrator, Kimberly Shay Ruffner, who was serving a sentence for another rape. In December 1994, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer granted Kirk a full pardon and he received compensation. Both the DNA evidence that led to Kirk’s release and the compensation he received are rare. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, of the 142 death row exonerees in the U.S., DNA played a substantial factor in establishing innocence in only 18 cases.  The Innocence Project also reports that only 27 states compensate the wrongfully convicted, and the requirements, amount, and length of time it takes to receive compensation varies widely. 

Kirk now works as the Director of Advocacy for Witness to Innocence. He travels the country, sharing his story of wrongful conviction and advocates for repeal of the death penalty. He played a significant role in Maryland’s successful campaign to end the death penalty earlier this year. According to his biography on Witness to Innocence’s website, Kirk has also been an ardent supporter of the Innocence Protection Act (IPA) since its passage by Congress in February 2000. The IPA established the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program, a program that helps states defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing.

You can watch videos of Kirk’s powerful story here and here.

(Photo of Kirk on The Colbert Report on March 4, 2013 wearing his DNA tie. Via colbertnewshub.com)

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Kimberly McCarthy is set to be executed in Texas tomorrow, June 26^th, marking the state’s 500^th killing since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 1976.

McCarthy recently filed an appeal for a stay of execution on the grounds of racial discrimination and inadequate counsel during her 1997 trial, two reoccurring issues with capital cases. Despite a 23 percent black population in Dallas County at the time of the trial, only four of the pool of 64 potential jurors were non-white, and only one of the jurors in her case was black. McCarthy’s appeal argues that black jurors were unfairly eliminated from her jury through prosecutors’ peremptory strikes and that her counsel failed to challenge the selection process. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied the appeal yesterday, citing that her claims should have been made earlier. This recent New York Times editorial details the long history of racial discrimination embedded in the death penalty system in Texas.

Despite a long history of racial concerns, Texas has executed more prisoners since 1976 than the next six states combined, accounting for more than one third of the nation’s total executions. Despite these grim statistics, executions and death sentences in Texas are declining, in line with the national trend.

(Photo via Marcia Powell)

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The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. released a new video today highlighting the racial discrimination in the Texas death penalty system as evidenced by the case of Texas death row inmate Duane Buck.  Mr. Buck was sentenced to death in Harris County (Houston), Texas, in 1997 after the prosecutor elicited testimony from a  psychologist indicating that Mr. Buck was likely to be more dangerous in the future because he is black.

Three years after Mr. Buck’s trial, then Texas Attorney General and now U.S. Senator John Cornyn identified six cases, including Mr. Buck’s, in which the state relied on testimony linking race to future dangerousness to secure a death sentence. The Attorney General supported new sentencing hearings for all six defendants, and five of them received new hearings. However, the State of Texas has not granted Mr. Buck a new hearing and is now pursuing his execution.

The U.S. Supreme Court  intervened before Mr. Buck’s scheduled September 2011 execution with two Justices agreeing that “our criminal justice system should not tolerate” a death sentence “marred by racial overtones.”

Over 50,000 people have signed a petition asking that Texas officials grant Mr. Buck a new sentencing hearing.  Please sign this petition now.

Picture from North Dallas Gazette

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Yesterday, the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to repeal the Racial Justice Act, a law that has been in effect since 2009 and allowed death row inmates to use state and county statistics to try to prove that racial bias played a significant role in their case in an attempt to be re-sentenced to life in prison.

Opponents of the Racial Justice Act have been trying to restrict the law since its inception. Last year the legislature limited the use of statistics that could be used to prove racial bias and put a stronger burden of proof on the defendant. Despite these rollbacks, some inmates were able to receive reduced sentences under the Act. A judge in Cumberland County cited a Michigan State study of North Carolina when he reduced the sentences of four convicted murderers on racial grounds. The study examined cases between 1990 and 2010 and found that prosecutors had removed black people from capital trial juries at more than twice the rate of others.

The Senate already passed the bill to repeal the Racial Justice Act but now has to approve some small changes that were added by the House. The bill will then head to the desk of Governor Pat McCrory, who has already said that he will sign it. North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006 due to various legal appeals. They have 152 individuals on their death row and this repeal bill will likely cause executions to resume.

“It’s incredibly sad,” said Representative Rick Glazier, who strongly supported the Racial Justice Act. “If you can’t face up to your history and make sure it’s not repeated, it lends itself to being repeated.”

Photo: North Carolina Legislative Building

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