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SCOTUS lets executions resume

By Gritsforbreakfast

SCOTUS Blog lets us know that the US Supreme Court approved current lethal injections methods, allowing more executions to go forward, although "there was no opinion that spoke for five or more Justices." Because of the de facto moratorium waiting for the resolution of Baze, there are no executions currently scheduled in Texas, but I'd expect judges to begin lining them up soon. TDCJ keep an updated list of scheduled executions here, where that information will become available as judges begin to re-set pending death sentences.Because of the Baze moratorium, I'd predicted at the beginning of the year that Texas would witness more exonerations of innocent people this year than it would executed death sentences. We'll soon see if that'll be the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).