tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post2948872994147502351..comments2024-03-28T14:19:33.056-04:00Comments on Southern District of Florida Blog: Warren Lee Hill executedDavid Oscar Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18386723948607633980noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-36961213345191896102015-01-29T00:37:39.748-05:002015-01-29T00:37:39.748-05:00We are all under a death sentence. Only the date, ...We are all under a death sentence. Only the date, time, place, and manner of death are variable. <br /><br />Unfortunately the death penalty in the United States appears reserved mostly for black men, of low intelligence, living in the South, and poor. This is not by chance, according to Chris Kromm. See, Why Does the South Execute More People? <br />http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/09/why-does-the-south-execute-more-people.html<br /><br />"The regional disparity is striking. Since the Supreme Court lifted a ban on death sentences in 1976, 1,264 people have been executed in the U.S. And 921 of those executions -- or 73 percent of the total -- took place in 13 Southern states."<br /><br />"It's true that Texas -- and what some call its death machine -- skew the numbers: Its 474 executions account for nearly 38 percent of the U.S. total. But the fact remains: Of the many things you can call the death penalty, one fitting adjective is that it's largely Southern."<br /><br />"What has made the South the home base of capital punishment? As you might suspect, executions have their roots in the history of slavery." <br /><br />A recent Supreme Court decision in Hall v. Florida did not sway the Eleventh Circuit. <br />Florida Statute ยง 921.137, "Imposition of the death sentence upon an intellectually disabled defendant prohibited" states that "A sentence of death may not be imposed upon a defendant convicted of a capital felony if it is determined... that the defendant is intellectually disabled."<br /><br />http://www.adasoutheast.org/ada/publications/legal/hall_v_florida.php<br />http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/freddie-lee-hall-v-florida/<br />http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-10882_kkg1.pdf<br />http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12-10882<br />http://www.apa.org/about/offices/ogc/amicus/hall.aspx<br />http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/05/hall_v_florida_the_supreme_court_rules_against_florida_s_rigid_iq_standard.html<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_v._Florida<br />http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/11/hall-v-florida/we are all under a death sentencehttp://www.southernstudies.org/2011/09/why-does-the-south-execute-more-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-49555606040624821122015-01-28T12:00:16.659-05:002015-01-28T12:00:16.659-05:00Sad Sad Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com