Prison Law Blog: Welcome to the blogosphere

In the past I've added new ICDP-related blogs to the blogroll without announcement.  Today I'm going to start posting brief FYI notes when I add a new blog the the blogroll.  Today I'm adding the Prison Law Blog.

Technorati Tags: psychology, forensic psychology, criminal psychology, criminal justice, death penalty, capital punishment, prisons

FYI: Past, Present an Future of Death Penalty from Tennesse Law Review

For those who want more information on the history of the death penalty (to today and beyond), check out the post from the DPIC blog.  The Tennessee Law Review recently published a number or articles from its colloquium "The Past, Present and Future of the Death Penalty" (Feb 2009).  Visit the DPIC link for more info.

I hope to track down copies of the articles mentioned in the Tennessee Law Review that may be most relevant to Atkins cases.

Tip of the hat to DPIC for the post.

Technorati Tags: psychology, forensic psychology, criminal psychology, criminal justice, death penalty, capital punishment, Tennessee Law Review, Atkins cases, mental retardation

SCOTUS Wood v Allen oral argument 11-4-09: NY Times take on proceedings

NY Times aritlce discussion ofy esterdays Wood v Allen, MR-related (but not central issue), SCOTUS oral arguments yesterday

Technorati Tags: psychology, psychology and law, educational psychology, school psychology, forensic psychology, criminal psychology, criminal justice, SCOTUS, Wood v Allen, death penalty, capital punishment, Atkins cases, intellectual disability, MR, mental retardation

FYI. Juveniles, SCOTUS, and Roper Reasoning PLUS Law review article dealing with executing mentally incompetent

Two FYI (with no comment) tidbits.

Related to ICDP recent post on APA's Amicus briefs re: adolescent cognitive maturity and capital punishment, the ACS Blog has a guest post re: whether SCOTUS should apply the Roper Reasoning to juveniles life-without-parole cases.


The CrimProf Blog featured a law review article (link to article is with post) by Markel on Panetti, Retributive Theory, and the Eighth Amendment.  As briefly outlined at CrimProf:

Markel dan Dan Markel (Florida State University College of Law) has published a thoughtful and nuanced article in the Northwestern University Law Review, Executing Retributivism: Panetti and the Future of Eighth Amendment. He argues that the version of retributivism that led to the Court's limits on executing the mentally incompetent have far more extensive implications.

Technorati Tags: psychology, forensic psychology, school psychology, educatonal psychology, neuropsychology, criminal psychology, criminal justice, juvinels, life prison, death penalty, capital punishment, ABA, American Bar Associaton, APA, Roper Reasoning, mental incompetence, SCOTUS, MR, mental retardation, Atkins cases

FYI: Capital punishment info---staying current via e-newsletters and/or RSS feeds

If you are trying to stay current on issues, commentary, decisions, etc. regarding capital punishment in general (not necessarily just Atkin's MR cases), I suggest two general strategies.

First, on the right side of this ICDP blog I've provided links to a number of "Relevant Blogs and Web Pages."  Most of these blogs provide RSS feeds which "push" their regular blog posts to whatever RSS reader service you use.  You can then decide to visit and read a post based on the title and brief summaries that most RSS services provide.

If you don't want to deal with RSS feeds, a number of these sites provide regular e-newsletters that come directly to your email in-box.  You can skim the e-newsletters and decide whether to click and read more....or simply delete.  The three most informative e-newsletters I've found are from:

• Death Penalty Information Center
• Karen Franklin's In the News blog
• StandDown Texas Project

To subscribe you would need to go to each blog home page and locate the box, link, button, etc. that allows one to subscribe to content via email or an e-newsletter.

Whenever I find a post or story from any of the blogs I monitor that is relevant to the ICDP blog, I try to make a brief FYI post and provide a direct link for my readers.  So....I do post information from these sources that I think is relevant and interesting, but you are at the mercy of what I "filter in and/or out" as newsworthy. 

Technorati Tags: psychology, school psychology, educational psychology, forensic psychology, criminal psychology, criminal justic, psychology and law, SCOTUS, ABA, American Bar Association, Atkins cases, MR, mental retardation, Intellectual Competence and Death Penalty, DPIC, StandDown Texas Project, Karen Franklin, capital punishment, death penalty

Bit off-task FYI: ABA National Mentor Program for Lawyers and Law Students with Disabilities

This FYI post is a bit "off task" for the focus of the ICDP blog.  The post is intended primarily for folks in the legal professional who may be reading this blog.  I make this FYI post given my long-standing involvement in special education and disability issues during my career.

The Disability Discussion Docket (3D) listserv, a service of the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, just released its  National Mentor Program for Lawyers and Law Students with Disabilities handbook.

As mentioned in the list post, "The Handbook is an easy to use document that has tips, definitions, and concepts to make your existing mentor-mentee relationship even better! The Handbook is meant for mentees and mentors, novices and experts."

 Technorati Tags: disabilities, mental and physical disabilities, ABA, American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, National Mentor Program for Lawyers and Law Students with Disabilities

FYI: Ohio governor puts hold on all executions until at least Dec 2009

Courtesy of Sentencing Law and Policy.

Technorati Tags: psychology, forensic psychology, criminal psychology, criminal justic, Ohio, death penalty, capital punishment, state executions

FYI: American Bar Foundation Law and Social Science Doctoral Fellowships

Thanks to In the News for the post regarding ABF doctoral fellowships in law and science. Hopefully an eligible person might be one with interest in research related to Atkins MR death penalty cases.Technorati
Tags: ABA, AMF, American Bar Association, law, social science, fellowships

StandDown Texas Project: Thank you

Thanks to the StandDown Texas Project blog for the post and blogroll link.  I monitor this blog and will FYI/link readers to StandDown when information may be relevant to the purpose of Intellectual Competence and the Death Penalty blog.

Technorati Tags: psychology, forensic psychology, IQ, intelligence, IQ tests, Atkins cases, MR, mental retardation, capital punishment, death penalty, StandDown Project

Atkins v Virginia: American Psychological Associations position

Another FYI (no comment) post.

In this evenings searching of the internet I ran across the APA's Topic: Psychology and Law page where the position of APA in the Atkins v Virginia case is stated. Click here to view.