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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
More on the moratorium mojo and a guessing game
Main October 18, 2007More on the moratorium mojo and a guessing gameThis front-page article in today's Washington Post provides a very nice review of the de facto execution moratorium the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The crazy,Baze-y lethal injection uncertainty continues
Main October 17, 2007The crazy, Baze-y lethal injection uncertainty continuesMonday brought a last minute state court stay of a scheduled execution in Nevada (discussed here). But then we got rulings…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The latest lethal injection news
Main October 11, 2007The latest lethal injection newsAs this new NPR piece highlights, it is still not clear whether the Supreme Court's consideration of the Baze lethal injection case will…
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New Amnesty International report on lethal injection
Main October 4, 2007New Amnesty International report on lethal injectionThanks to posts from StandDown Texas Project and TalkLeft, I see that Amnesty International has produced this big new report on…
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Georgia schedules two executions for later this month
Main October 4, 2007Georgia schedules two executions for later this monthI had expected that Texas would be the state battling to go forward with executions while the Supreme Court considered…
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Intriguing insights about lethal injection concerns
Main October 3, 2007Intriguing insights about lethal injection concernsBoth Capital Defense Weekly and StandDown Texas Project have lots of new posts on various capital punishment issues, and my favorite read…
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Another Texas execution halted … is moratorium now official?
Main October 2, 2007Another Texas execution halted ... is moratorium now official?As detailed in this new AP article, the "Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday stopped this week's scheduled…
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Everyone trying to figure out if there is now an execution moratorium
Main September 29, 2007Everyone trying to figure out if there is now an execution moratoriumNot surprisingly, the media is as unsure as I am about whether Supreme Court's blocking of…
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A Texas companion? A lengthyde factomoratorium? What theBazef@%$, SCOTUS?
Main September 28, 2007A Texas companion? A lengthy de facto moratorium? What the Baze f@%$, SCOTUS?Along with many others, I am trying to figure out just what to make of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS stops Texas execution: is a nationalBazemoratorium now a given?
Main September 28, 2007SCOTUS stops Texas execution: is a national Baze moratorium now a given?As detailed in this AP article from Texas, late last night the "U.S. Supreme Court stopped…