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PENNSYLVANIA (USA): FEDERAL APPEALS COURT BARS AUTOMATIC SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR FORMER DEATH ROW PRISONERS

February 9, 2017: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania's long-standing practice of automatically keeping capital defendants in solitary confinement after courts had overturned their death sentences.
Saying that, ā€œScientific research and evolving jurisprudence has made the harms of solitary confinement clear,ā€ the unanimous three-judge panel ruled that prisoners whose death sentences have been overturned have a constitutionally protected interest against being held in solitary confinement, unless the state could show, after an individualized assessment, that such custody was necessary for security and safety reasons.
Shawn Walker and Craig Williams, the former death row prisoners who brought the suit, had spent 14 and 22 years, respectively, in solitary confinement on death row before courts vacated their death sentences.
Then each was kept on death row without a death sentence for the six additional years it took to resentence them to life without parole. In barring continued treatment of inmates like Walker and Williams as death-row prisoners without any demonstrated security need to do so, former Chief Circuit Judge Theodore McKee warned that "Inmates in solitary confinement on death row without active death sentences face the perils of extreme isolation and are at risk of erroneous deprivation of their liberty. Accordingly, they have a clearly established due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment to avoid unnecessary and unexamined solitary confinement on death row."
According to a July 2015 DPIC analysis of Pennsylvania death row, 115 former death-row prisoners whose convictions or death sentences had been overturned in post-conviction proceedings had been resentenced to life or less, or acquitted.
Most had been kept in death-row solitary confinement without active death sentences before being resentenced or exonerated.
The Third Circuit cases are Walker v. Farnan, No. 15-1390, and Williams v. Secretary, Pa. Dept. of Corrections, No. 14-1469. (Sources: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters, 09/02/2017)

ARIZONA INVITES DEATH ROW INMATES TO BRING THEIR OWN EXECUTION DRUGS
IRAN: NINE PRISONERS HANGED
NIGERIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE 5 YEARS AFTER HACKING ANOTHER TO DEATH
PHILIPPINES: LEGISLATORS WATER DOWN DEATH PENALTY BILL
TAIWAN COMMUTES SENTENCE FOR 2 PINOYS ON DEATH ROW
PUNTLAND: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 7 HARAKAT SHEBAB OPERATIVES TO DEATH
UAE: SHARJAH COURT ORDERS DEATH SENTENCE TO PAKISTANI FOR KILLING WIFE
NIGERIA: ABUJA HIGH COURT SENTENCES RANDY SOLDIER TO DEATH
NIGERIA: AMOSUN PARDONS THREE PRISONERS, COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE ON TWO INMATES
MYANMAR: ROHINGYA MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAID ON POLICE POST
IRAN COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF SIX JUVENILE OFFENDERS
INDIA: MAN GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR RAPE AND MURDER IN MADHYA PRADESH
VIETNAM TO BUILD FIVE MORE LETHAL INJECTION VENUES
ALABAMA (USA): SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL TO UNDO JUDICIAL OVERRIDE
THAILAND: AUSTRALIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
EGYPT: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR U.S. EMBASSY CLASHES
BANGLADESH: 6 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING VAN-PULLER IN KUSHTIA
SYRIA: ASSAD 'HANGS 13,000 AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE JAIL WHERE PRISONERS COUNT DISCARDED SLIPPERS TO KNOW HOW MANY HAVE DIED'
JORDAN: COURT SENTENCES FIVE TO DEATH OVER IRBID ATTACK
HANDS OFF CAIN URGES THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION ON THE DJALALI CASE
MOROCCO: HIGH RELIGIOUS COMMITTEE SAYS APOSTATES SHOULD NOT BE KILLED
IRANIAN SCIENTIST SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ESPIONAGE, CONTACT WITH ISRAELIS
KUWAIT: CITIZEN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING SPOUSE
PAKISTAN: TWO BROTHERS HANGED AT LAHOREā€™S KOT LAKHPAT JAIL
IRAN: EIGHT PRISONERS HANGED, INCLUDING TWO MINORS
MALAYSIA: TWO FRIENDS SENT TO THE GALLOWS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
SINGAPORE: FORMER POLICEMAN TO HANG AFTER APPEAL DISMISSED
GUYANA: TWO BARTICA MASSACRE ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 60 INMATES TO LIFE
IRAN: MAN AND WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING

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