Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal Sentencing Reporter issue considers After Trump: The Future of the President’s Pardon Power
It strikes me as a great bit of great timing, as we head into a weekend celebrating our great nation s declaration of independence from a monarchy, that the new issue of the
Federal Sentencing Reporter focused on the pardon power in the US Constitution is just now available online. It is often said that the presidential pardon authority in Article II section 2 of the Constitution is the most kingly power given to our chief executive, and former Prez Donald Trump certainly seemed at times to bring a mad King George quality to his activities in this arena. Notably, as explained in the intro to this June 2021 issue of
Sentencing Law and Policy: Texas completes only second state execution of first half of 2021
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Texas set to execute John Hummel after excluding media from May execution
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After excluding reporters from death chamber in May, Texas prison officials vow to let media witness John Hummel execution
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/ Interior of death chamber in Texas.
For the first time in the modern death penalty era, Texas did not let the media witness an execution.
Reporters have always been present at executions to observe the state as it wields its greatest power over life. Media reports often provide detail excluded from state records like prisoners describing a burning sensation after lethal drugs are injected in their veins. Reporters across the country have served as watchdogs for botched executions.
On Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999. It was the state’s first execution in 10 months, the longest lull in the country’s busiest death chamber since 1984.