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Lethal Injection
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And the lethal injection litigation played on…
Main February 10, 2006And the lethal injection litigation played on...The echo effects of the Supreme Court cert grant in the Hill case (discussed here and here) continue to be felt…
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Ugly clemency sparring in California
Main February 8, 2006Ugly clemency sparring in CaliforniaAs I have mentioned before, California's scheduled execution of Michael Morales in less than two weeks is interesting to watch because of a…
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Capital stories and developments
Main February 6, 2006Capital stories and developmentsToday brings lots of stories and developments on an array of death penalty fronts:Charles Lane his this article in the Washington Post about the…
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Back to the lethal injection litigation
Main February 6, 2006Back to the lethal injection litigationAfter a weekend respite, federal courts can look forward to another (chaotic?) week of litigation about the constitutionality of lethal injection. This…
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Another lethal injection litigation update
Main February 4, 2006Another lethal injection litigation updateThere is more news from the litigation desk as the lethal injection scrummages (basics here) rage on:As detailed here, the Fourth Circuit yesterday…
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Still more on the lethal injection scrummages
Main February 2, 2006Still more on the lethal injection scrummagesTom Goldstein in this post over at SCOTUSblog does his very best to sort through the mess SCOTUS is making with…
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More lethal injection scrummages
Main February 2, 2006More lethal injection scrummagesI have been looking for an effective word to describe all the litigation over lethal injection since the Supreme Court granted cert in the…
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SCOTUS lethal injection litigation updates
Main January 31, 2006SCOTUS lethal injection litigation updatesI pondered here how the the Supreme Court's decision to permit Indiana to go forward with a lethal injection execution — despite stopping…
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Blogging from death row
Main January 29, 2006Blogging from death rowOn Friday, The Washington Post ran this story and the Baltimore Sun ran this story about Maryland death row defendant and blogger Vernon Lee…
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MoreHillcoverage and commentary
Main January 26, 2006More Hill coverage and commentaryHoward Bashman has collected here a lot of additional media coverage of the Supreme Court's cert grant in Hill (background here and here).…