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Adam Liptak has, "Litigation Assured in Wake of Decision."Executions in Texas, Alabama and other Southern states with high death-penalty rates are likely to resume shortly in the wake of the Supreme Court?s decision Wednesday upholding Kentucky?s method of putting condemned inmates to death. But the fractured decision may actually slow executions elsewhere in the country, legal experts said, as lawyers for death-row inmates launch fresh challenges based on its newly announced legal standards. ?The decision will have the effect of widening the divide between executing states and symbolic states ? states that have the death penalty on the books but rarely carry out executions,? said Jordan M. Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).