Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 9.14.16

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.31.16

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.24.16

Last week we received the following email which in part said:

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.17.16

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.10.16

We are encouraged that it appears to have become almost automatic that attorneys representing a defendant in a capital murder case ask the Court in a separate motion to declare the death penalty section of the Alabama Capital Murder Statute unconstitutional. Who would have thought that only a couple of years ago? Obviously Alabama still has a way to go but at this point we do see the cup as half full, not as half empty, not always easy with the national negativity that we are drowning in right now.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 7.27.16

Florida And Alabama
 Jury Sentencing Schemes

 Similarities:
 

Florida
 
Alabama
 

-      Jury override
 (court ruled that judges are given too much power)
 
-      Jury override
 

-      Jury verdict is only advisory to the judge and only a recommendation of sentence
 
-      Jury verdict is only advisory to the judge and only a recommendation of sentence