Study finds death sentences overturned on appeal across states
A 23 year review of 5 760 death penalty cases in 34 states shows appeals overturn death sentences when juries impose them in non worst of the worst cases. Higher reversal rates correlate with trial errors and fewer aggravating factors. Courts have ordered 99 wrongfully convicted inmates released since 1977.
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Washington
James Liebman
Columbia University
Hey
Liebman
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Foundation
South Carolina
Supreme Court
Daytona Beach Feels Pressure From Big Event Season
Daytona Beach braces for Speed Weeks Bike Week and Spring Break as city officials tally a $2 million annual cost for police fire and cleanup. They consider vendor fees higher permits and other controls to cover the toll while supporters tout the economic boom from NASCAR events and two major festivals drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
International Speedway
Mike Shallow
Shallow
Bud Asher
Daytona Beach Halifax
Fort Lauderdale
MTV
Panama City Beach
Cancun
Mexico
Aja
Stephen King Sr
Marshals capture fugitives amid low profile glow
A broad glimpse of U S Marshals Service successes shows arrests at a wedding rehearsal dinner and via a restaurant window clue, plus a missing pinkie finger and a sparkling shopfront leading to busts. The piece notes Marshals’ lower visibility versus the FBI and details cases from 1997 to 2000, including Waagner, Hach, Rowe, Agurs, and Escobedo, with their crimes, captures, and outcomes.
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U.S. Marshals Service
FBI
Kinko
Springdale
Ohio
Clayton Lee Waagner
Waagner
Illinois
Jim Pasco
Fraternal Order of Police
U.S
Carl Hach
Rhinelander
Wis
McDonald’s
Hach
James Rowe
U.S. Navy
Army
Rowe
Seattle
Bob Holtz
Pittsburgh
Martin Agurs
Holtz
Agurs
YMCA
Mexico
Daniel Escobedo
Supreme Court
Miranda
Arizona
Escobedo
Mexico City
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