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Linda Greenhouse on Justice Stevens

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In today's New York Times, Linda Greenhouse writes a must-read, "Justice Stevens Renounces Capital Punishment."  Here are three excerpts, but I'd urge everyone to follow the link to read the entire report.When Justice John Paul Stevens intervened in a Supreme Court argument on Wednesday to score a few points off the lawyer who was defending the death penalty for the rape of a child, the courtroom audience saw a master strategist at work, fully in command of the flow of the argument and the smallest details of the case. For those accustomed to watching Justice Stevens, it was a familiar sight. But there was something different that no one in the room knew except the eight other justices. In the decision issued 30 minutes earlier in which the court found Kentucky?s method of execution by lethal injection constitutional, John Paul Stevens, in the 33rd year of his Supreme Court tenure and four days shy of his 88th birthday, had just renounced the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).