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The respondent's lawyer, Roy T. Englert, Jr., referred to the Death Penalty Information Center's list of "botched" executions. He criticized it because a majority of the executions on the list, according to respondent, "did not involve the infliction of pain, but were only delayed by technical problems ( e.g. , difficulty in finding a suitable ...
This case was, and always has been about the gross neglect by Radonda Vaught that caused the death of Charlene Murphey." [ 15 ] Nursing unions and other concerned organizations issued statements warning that Vaught's prosecution could set a precedent for criminalizing honest medical errors and lead to compromised patient care due to medical ...
Nevada, 504 U.S. 127 (1992), is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court decided whether a mentally ill person can be forced to take antipsychotic medication while they are on trial to allow the state to make sure they remain competent during the trial.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system more time to carry out The post Alabama ends automatic review to detect trial errors in death ...
A Kentucky dentist has been convicted of illegally prescribing morphine that resulted in the overdose death of a patient. A jury in federal court in Covington acquitted Dr. Jay M. Sadrinia ...
State capital cases, or death penalty proceedings, cost state taxpayers 3.2 times more than noncapital cases on average, according to the 2017 study of the Oklahoma death penalty. More revealing ...
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.
State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including one who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.