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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
What’s SCOTUS doing in theHillcase?
Main January 25, 2006What's SCOTUS doing in the Hill case?As detailed here, late yesterday the Eleventh Circuit rejected various claims by death row defendant Clarence Hill, who was scheduled to…
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Florida Supreme Court rejects challenge to lethal injection
Main January 21, 2006Florida Supreme Court rejects challenge to lethal injectionAs detailed in this AP article, earlier this week the Florida Supreme Court ruled that a "2005 study indicating condemned…
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Major Tennessee ruling upholds lethal injection protocol
Main October 18, 2005Major Tennessee ruling upholds lethal injection protocolWith thanks to Howard for this head's up, I see this news that the Tennessee Supreme Court on Monday "upheld the…
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More litigation over lethal injection
Main August 31, 2005More litigation over lethal injectionThanks to Howard's post here, I see that a panel of the Eighth Circuit in the late afternoon on Tuesday voted 2-1 to…
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Notable ruling on constitutionality of lethal injection
Main July 9, 2005Notable ruling on constitutionality of lethal injection As detailed in this AP article, a "state judge yesterday upheld the use of lethal injection in Kentucky, saying it…
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More on constitutional challenges to lethal injection
Main May 19, 2005More on constitutional challenges to lethal injectionWith thanks to How Appealing for the tip, I see the AP has this informative story about the recent Supreme Court…
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Are four Justices ready to grant cert. on the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols?
Main May 18, 2005Are four Justices ready to grant cert. on the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols?Thanks to finding this post at How Appealing (which is a sentencing needle in…
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The legal attack on lethal injection
Main April 18, 2005The legal attack on lethal injectionWith thank to How Appealing for the tip, I see that USA Today has this interesting article discussing the "the latest legal…
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Sentencing news of note
Main September 16, 2004Sentencing news of noteThere are interesting sentencing stories across a range of topics this morning. On the death penalty front, Adam Liptak of the NY Times has…