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Lethal Injection
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Challenging lethal injection where it started
Main August 8, 2006Challenging lethal injection where it startedThe Los Angeles Times has this article discussion the developing challenge to Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol. Here is a snippet:Death by lethal…
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Big efforts to halt Big Sky execution
Main August 5, 2006Big efforts to halt Big Sky executionThe mania caused by the death penalty is now playing out in Montana as detailed in news articles here and here.…
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Lethal injection litigation creates de facto moratorium in Ohio and…
Main August 3, 2006Lethal injection litigation creates de facto moratorium in Ohio and...I have not been blogging much lately about lethal injection litigation because, ironically, I am busy trying to…
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Reviewing the lethal injection scrummages
Main July 8, 2006Reviewing the lethal injection scrummagesThe Baltimore Sun has this effective article reviewing all the litigation and uncertainty surrounding lethal injection protocols and this companion piece detailing the…
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Biggest SCOTUS death penalty developments
Main July 2, 2006Biggest SCOTUS death penalty developmentsThough I have already done a little end-of-term Supreme Court commentary here and here, the holiday weekend allows for broader reflection on SCOTUS…
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Should part of the machinery of death be dyslexic?
Main June 27, 2006Should part of the machinery of death be dyslexic?Kent Scheidegger in this post over at Crime and Consequences seems eager to read Kansas v. Marsh (commentary here…
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Back to the lethal injection scrummages
Main June 26, 2006Back to the lethal injection scrummagesWhile the Supreme Court's death penalty work in Marsh (commentary here) has the blogosphere's attention, a federal district judge in Missouri, as…
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The intriguing next chapter in the lethal injection saga
Main June 23, 2006The intriguing next chapter in the lethal injection sagaThe Supreme Court's Hill decision on procedures for challenging lethal injection protocols in federal court (basics here, commentary here…
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Oklahoma ruling on lethal injection’s constitutionality
Main June 20, 2006Oklahoma ruling on lethal injection's constitutionalityIn the first major lethal injection ruling I have seen since the Supreme Court's Hill decision (basics here, commentary here and here…
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Insights onHillfrom THE expert
Main June 12, 2006Insights on Hill from THE expertProfessor Debby Denno, whose prior work on execution methods I praised in previous posts here and here (where I also correctly predicted…