Law Advice

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Jan. 23 that Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has agreed to pay a $ 425,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations that the company was aware that certain HP lithium-ion battery packs contained a defect or created an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death (In the [...]

Legal expert says ND death penalty appeal could take 3 years to resolve | The …The RepublicAP FARGO, ND — A legal expert who has followed the death penalty case of a Minnesota man convicted for killing a University of North Dakota student says his final appeal could last at least three years. Alfonso Rodriguez [...]

Telegraph.co.uk Syria signs law imposing dealth penalty on those arming 'terrorists'Telegraph.co.ukBashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has signed into effect a law imposing the death penalty on anyone arming "terrorists", according to state media amid mounting clashes with rebel troops. "The law provides for the death penalty for anyone providing …New Syrian law stipulates death for [...]

California’s balky death penalty system lurched to another halt Friday when a state trial court judge, in a tentative ruling, rejected the state’s latest lethal injection protocol as invalid and found the state’s rationale for the three-drug procedure inadequate. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

The number of death penalty sentences in the U.S. has dropped to the lowest point since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center. Seventy-eight capital punishment verdicts were handed down this year compared to 112 last year. In related findings, a Gallup poll done this [...]

Working to 'Create a (Death Penalty) Law That Works in the Name of Justice' [Poll]Patch.comBut, under current laws, chances are slim that Cheshire home invasion killers Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes will ever executed by lethal injection. Currently in Connecticut there is no limit to the amount of appeals someone sentenced to death …and more » [...]

Working to 'Create a (Death Penalty) Law that Actually Works in the Name of …Patch.comBut, under current laws, chances are slim that Cheshire home invasion killers Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes will ever executed by lethal injection. Currently in Connecticut there is no limit to the amount of appeals someone sentenced to death …and more » [...]

Philadelphia’s district attorney announced Wednesday he won’t reseek the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1982 for the slaying of a police officer. The decision to discontinue pursuit of the death penalty effectively solidifies a life sentence for Abu-Jamal. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

abc11.com Foes of NC death penalty law press case on parolesWRAL.comRALEIGH, NC — When critics of the Racial Justice Act made their case at the General Assembly this week, they used an attention-grabbing scenario to argue that the law is fatally flawed: the prospect of North Carolina's worst murderers …North Carolina Senate Rewrites Racial Justice [...]

Wink News Legal experts focus on Florida's death penaltyWink News(AP) – A panel that included legal experts, academics and lawmakers on Monday renewed a push for changes to try to make Florida's death penalty more just and prevent innocent people from being executed. Participants' views about their chances of …Legal experts focus on Florida's death [...]