Monday, August 20, 2007
Benefit Concert a Smashing Success
This past weekend marked the 12th Annual National Habeas Corpus Seminar. Here’s a description of what that seminar entails just in case you were curious: “This nationally-recognized program, the only one of its kind, focuses on representation in capital habeas cases in toto. Habeas experts discuss issue identification, investigation, factual and legal development and representation of claims, the use of mitigation and mental health experts, and substantive and procedural habeas corpus jurisprudence. The program is designed for, and attendance is limited to, Federal Defender staff, Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys, and state court practitioners who are currently appointed, or seeking appointment to, a capital habeas corpus proceeding.”
A slide show of pictures taken by our very talented TCASK photogs Harry and Karan Simpson can be found HERE.
In other Sixth Circuit news, Ohio will likely start up again. The denial of Cooey's lethal injection claims must be appealed to the Supreme Court by September 1--there will likely be a relatively quick "cert. denied" on that one. That would pave the way for the setting of a bunch of dates, thereby allowing Ohio's executioners a lot of training--practice makes perfect, you know.
Kentucky just set a date for a cop killer. Likely that he will get some final justice too.
Texas just executed its 400th killer. More are on the way. And the US, as a whole, will likely execute more people this year than it did last year. Quite a feat, given all of the bogus lethal injection claims circulating and the lawless federal judges trying to stop these injections.
It is a grim image, picturing a human being strapped to a table, expecting to be executed without pain or suffering, but instead receiving just that. Perhaps, in a more archaic time of this civilization, acts such as these would be permissible. But, the likes of Angel Nieves Diaz who took 37 minutes to die, rather than the usual 15, makes me think that little has changed. Diaz had a troubled past, committed many crimes, and by the law, was guilty of killing the manager of a strip bar. Although there were many problems within his trial, I do not believe he deserved to suffer those extra 22 minutes before he was killed.
I believe that these lethal injection claims will gain more strength and momentum and my hope is that as long as we have the death penalty, we can at least get it right by killing these men and women as fast as possible. They are going to be killed, that is written in stone, but the suffering that lethal injection may incur is not.
While the state allows homeless people to starve and die on the street Workman's last wish was that they would be fed his last meal.
Whenever people are happy that people are being executed, no matter how humane they try to make it sound, it is a tragedy.
We will all reap the benefits of not only the actions but also of the thoughts we sow into peoples lives. You don't sow beans and get potatoes, so remember whatever you speak over other's lives will come back to you and your generations to come.
We all need to talk a little less and pray a little more when all that comes out of our mouth is evil.
James said it just right when he said that the tongue is the hardest thing there is to tame.
However, when did Cheryl ever say that he wasn't responsible? I believe that she was lauding Workman for his grace and forgiveness, traits that I admire greatly. Finding positivity amongst such negativity is also a trait I find admirable, thanks Cheryl.
May I congratulate you.
You are quite correct on what you said. I did make a mistake on not saying that Philip did rob the store and ultimately he was responsible and never denied that himself but even more than that you commented without being critical or demeaning. You have potential my friend.
Was there a special Kathleen Culhane award?
What Culhane did was reprehensible, which is way she was punished.
I think prosecutorial misconduct is far more prevalent than the sparse cases that exist such as Culhane's.
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