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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio queue of condemned keeps growing as state struggles with its death machinery
Main September 6, 2015Ohio queue of condemned keeps growing as state struggles with its death machineryThis new AP article, headlined "Ohio Death Row Quandary: 2 Dozen Executions, No Lethal Drugs,"…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Might Tennessee soon have its machinery of death up and running?
Main August 27, 2015Might Tennessee soon have its machinery of death up and running?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this AP story headlined "Judge upholds…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Nebraska group submits signatures to halt death penalty repeal and set up fascinating 2016 vote
Main August 26, 2015Nebraska group submits signatures to halt death penalty repeal and set up fascinating 2016 voteAs reported in this new AP article, the "organization campaigning to reinstate Nebraska's…
Supreme Court Update
Glossip v. Gross (15-7955) and Order List
Greetings, Court Fans! We're back with our final Update of OT14, covering Glossip v. Gross (15-7955), a doubly divisive death-penalty case, and providing a roundup of the Court's orders over…
Death Penalty
Oklahoma Lethal Injection Method Approved by SCOTUS
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in Glossip v. Gross . Many thought that the possibilities ranged from (1) outlawing the use of the…
Criminal
Supreme Court kills anti-death penalty argument – or does it?
The Supreme Court released a decision in favor of the death penalty status quo. But the dissent could be enough to open a new door. [caption id="attachment_948288" align="alignright" width="380"] Photo Credit:…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Rejects Challenge to OK Lethal Injection
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Supreme Court in Glossip v. Gross rejected an Eighth Amendment challenge to Oklahoma's three-drug lethal injection cocktail. The ruling deals a blow to opponents…
Sentencing Law and Policy
California agrees to model new lethal injection protocol on whatever SCOTUS says is good enough
Main June 2, 2015California agrees to model new lethal injection protocol on whatever SCOTUS says is good enoughAs reported in this local piece, headlined "California death penalty: state agrees to…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Stern on Lethal Injection
Jeffrey Stern gives the shameful back-story on Clayton Lockett's botched execution over at The Atlantic. In the course, he also gives the shameful back-story on Glossip v. Gross, the case…
Death Penalty
Lethal Injection: Who Gives the Shot?
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Executions need executioners. One of the challenges to the lethal injection method of execution in the United States involves the drugs used in the process, and we post about those…