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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Texas back in the execution business
Main June 12, 2008Texas back in the execution businessThis AP story presents the basic details of Texas' (long-awaited?) return to the business of state killing or killers:A remorseful convicted killer…
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Georgia conducts its second post-Bazelethal injection (with a hiccup)
Main June 5, 2008Georgia conducts its second post-Baze lethal injection (with a hiccup)As detailed in this AP report, a "man who claimed his attorney was a racist who put up…
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Texas not yet able to get back in execution business
Main June 4, 2008Texas not yet able to get back in execution businessAs detailed in this Houston Chronicle article, headlined "Killer's execution delayed; Texas lethal injection was to resume, but…
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Notable examination of doctors and the death penalty
Main May 29, 2008Notable examination of doctors and the death penaltyI just came across this SSRN posting of an interesting-looking paper titled "Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications…
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Third post-Bazelethal injection conducted in Virginia
Main May 28, 2008Third post-Baze lethal injection conducted in VirginiaAs detailed in this Reuters article, "Virginia put a convicted murderer to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in the third…
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Life and death realities as states press on with the death penalty
Main May 21, 2008Life and death realities as states press on with the death penaltyLots of death penalty news and notes being well covered in the blogosphere:SCOTUSblog here reports that…
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Execution plans gearing up in various states
Main May 19, 2008Execution plans gearing up in various statesThough I am still not expecting a major rush of post-Baze executions, the news today from various states suggests that a…
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A month afterBaze, has anything really changed?
Main May 15, 2008A month after Baze, has anything really changed?Two articles this morning about on-going lethal injection litigation confirm my sense that the Supreme Court's Baze decision has done…
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Justice Stevens horsing around about lethal injections
Main May 10, 2008Justice Stevens horsing around about lethal injectionsI headed home early from the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, and so I missed Justice Stevens speaking at the big conference…
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SpinningBazefor lower courts
Main May 9, 2008Spinning Baze for lower courtsElisabeth Semel has this new piece in The National Law Journal, headlined "Fearing too much justice," which tries its darnedest to argue that…