Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Oscar Smith: Tennessee: Bulletin: Major (Welcome) Development: (All executions put on hold): The Marshall Project reports: Tennessee won’t likely execute anyone in 2022. State officials announced Monday they are suspending all five executions scheduled for this year amid lingering questions about the methods the state uses to kill condemned prisoners. U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton will lead what’s being called an independent investigation into the state’s lethal injection protocols, which have not been updated since at least 2018. Citing an “oversight” in those execution rules, Gov. Bill Lee canceled Oscar Smith’s execution last month about an hour before Smith was to be killed. USA TODAY TMP Context: Witnesses to the execution. THE MARSHALL PROJECT

"Tennessee won’t likely execute anyone in 2022. State officials announced Monday they are suspending all five executions scheduled for this year amid lingering questions about the methods the state uses to kill condemned prisoners. U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton will lead what’s being called an independent investigation into the state’s lethal injection protocols, which have not been updated since at least 2018. Citing an “oversight” in those execution rules, Gov. Bill Lee canceled Oscar Smith’s execution last month about an hour before Smith was to be killed. USA TODAY TMP Context: Witnesses to the execution. 

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;


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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;


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