The Marshall Project and Washington Post, Death By Deadline, Part I, Investigation finds that 1996 law created procedural hurdles, causing many inmates to lose access to final appeal....Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Rouses lawyers had just one year after his initial state appeal to petition for a last-resort hearing in federal court. They missed the deadline by a single day....An investigation by The Marshall Project shows that since President Bill Clinton signed the one-year statute of limitations into law - enacting a tough-on-crime provision that emerged in the Republicans Contract with America - the deadline has been missed at least 80 times in capital cases. Sixteen of those inmates have since been executed - the most recent was on Thursday, when Chadwick Banks was put to death in Florida.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:30:00 +0000
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