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Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.
The first appeal, which the Idaho Supreme Court unanimously rejected earlier this month, said Creech’s death sentence was unconstitutional because it was imposed by a judge rather than a jury ...
On March 17, 2010, the Idaho Supreme Court rejected a joint appeal filed by Pizzuto and five other condemned inmates from Idaho, who all argued that they were entitled to new trials because the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling to allow only the jury, not judges, to impose the death penalty. The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that the ruling was made ...
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 ruled that the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits death sentences for the rape of a child under 12 years old when the victim survived.
The Idaho Supreme Court moved the case from Moscow to Boise and assigned it to Judge Steven Hippler of Idaho’s 4th Judicial District. Prosecution withdraws one death penalty support element
Raymond Allen Snowden (October 22, 1921 – October 18, 1957) was an American man who was convicted of the 1956 murder of Cora Lucyle Dean and executed in Idaho. Snowden was noteworthy for being the last person executed in the state before the 1972 Furman v. Georgia decision by the United States Supreme Court led to a nationwide death penalty ...
Prior to abolition, Gabon had an ongoing moratorium on executions since Ngokouta's death in 1985. On 13 September 2007, Gabon's Council of Ministers voted to ban the death penalty, a decision which garnered praise from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, who released a statement declaring, "This decision reinforces the growing movement towards the abolition of ...
Creech first was convicted in Idaho of the November 1974 double-murder of Edward Thomas Arnold, 34, and John Wayne Bradford, 40, in Valley County. He was handed the death penalty, but his sentence ...