by Kathleen Lucas | Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
In at least 80 capital cases in which attorneys have missed the deadline, it is almost always the prisoner alone who suffers the consequences. In the fall of 2006, a Florida attorney named Mary Catherine Bonner went before the U.S. Supreme Court to plead for a...
by Kathleen Lucas | Sep 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 1:08 AM Nearly surrounded by states that wisely have scrapped the death penalty – and with ample concerns already raised about the fairness and risk for error in sentencing defendants to death row – Pennsylvania has...
by Kathleen Lucas | Sep 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
September 3, 2014 The exoneration of two North Carolina men who spent 30 years in prison — one on death row — provides a textbook example of so much that is broken in the American justice system. And it is further evidence (as though more were needed) that the death...
by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Cross-posted from the Inquirer A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court has dismissed litigation to reform the way Philadelphia reimburses lawyers appointed to defend indigent clients facing the death penalty. The four-justice majority filed an unsigned per curiam order...
by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
cross-posted from Jackson Free Press written by Ronni Mott “I sit in my room for a good 1 1/2-2 hours, and dad comes in my room, and goes off on me, calling me bastard, nogood, mistake, and telling me I’m inconciderate [sic] and just care about my self,...
