11.   By restricting the ability of prisoners on death row to appeal their sentences, the act sharply challenges the historic authority of the federal courts.

12.   Caro will be transferred to the prison in San Quentin, while her death sentence is automatically appealed.

13.   Cuomo contends the death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent and can cost more than other punishments because convicts typically appeal their sentences for years.

14.   Defense attorney Harold Danford said he would appeal the sentence.

15.   Death sentences are automatically appealed.

16.   Defense attorneys said they will appeal the sentence.

17.   Curran appealed that sentence, and another judge, Walter Skinner, eventually cut his time back to three years.

18.   Edwards is not the only one appealing the sentence.

19.   Fears cited a Missouri Supreme Court ruling about the rights of human inmates to appeal death sentences.

20.   He advocates a system that would allow inmates to appeal solitary confinement sentences and file complaints of abuse to an objective oversight committee that would ensure inmate confidentiality.