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Lethal Injection
639 published works
Sentencing Law and Policy
How might state-law-based challenges to lethal injection fare afterBaze?
Main May 8, 2008How might state-law-based challenges to lethal injection fare after Baze?One of many interesting aspects of all the lethal injection litigation over the last few years has been…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Georgia poised to have first post-Bazelethal injection execution
Main May 6, 2008Georgia poised to have first post-Baze lethal injection executionIn some future macabre capital punishment version of Trivial Pursuit, the question will surely be asked what state had…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A day to focus on an execution and politics
Main May 6, 2008A day to focus on an execution and politicsWhile most of the media and political world will be focused on voting in Indiana and North Carolina, this…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Some execution news and notes
Main May 5, 2008Some execution news and notesTwo notable death penalty stories have developed this afternoon:1. As this AP article details, a "Georgia board has denied condemned killer William Earl…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The haze and litigation maze afterBaze
Main May 3, 2008The haze and litigation maze after Baze The first few weeks after the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection protocol have been relatively…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The state-specific realities of post-Bazeexecution timelines
Main April 28, 2008The state-specific realities of post-Baze execution timelinesThis new local AP article from Ohio highlights that each death penalty state is going to move at its own pace…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Looking at post-Bazerealities in Florida
Main April 26, 2008Looking at post-Baze realities in FloridaYesterday's broadcast of NPR's "All Things Considered" had this segment titled "Opponents Challenge Death Penalty in Florida." Here is the summary: Florida…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The post-Bazeuncertainty and litigation begins
Main April 17, 2008The post-Baze uncertainty and litigation beginsAs detailed in this effective post at SCOTUSblog, the post-Baze uncertainty and litigation has started before the ink on the Baze ruling…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Supreme Court Upholds KY’s Use of Lethal Injection
I know, it's not about abortion. But it is about life. Was "'serious' and 'humble' Catholic" Chief Justice Roberts trying to impress the Pope on his visit to the United…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Media round-up in wake ofBaze
Main April 16, 2008Media round-up in wake of BazeHow Appealing collects here a lot of the national media reaction to the Supreme Court's work in the Baze lethal injection case…