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The post-Baze uncertainty and litigation begins

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this effective post at SCOTUSblog, the post-Baze uncertainty and litigation has started before the ink on the Baze ruling is even dry.  Here are snippets from the SCOTUSblog post:The state of Florida moved quickly on Thursday to get Supreme Court permission to carry out the execution of a death-row inmate, and a prisoner in Mississippi asked the Court to rule itself or tell a lower court to rule on his challenge to that state?s execution procedure.  These were the first filings in the Court in the wake of Wednesday's ruling upholding the basic elements of execution by use of lethal drug injections. These filings, indicating that developments following the decision in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) will unfold rapidly, came in cases in which the Justices had delayed scheduled executions at a time when the Court was not permitting any state to go forward with a death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).