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Looking at the Justices' methods in Baze

By Douglas A. Berman

At FindLaw, Michael Dorf has this new essay, titled "How the Supreme Court's Lethal Injection Ruling Elevates Appearances Over Reality." Here is how it starts: Last week, in Baze v. Rees, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Kentucky's administration of the death penalty via lethal injection.  To say that the case divided the Justices would be a gross understatement.  There was no opinion for the Court as a whole, and the nine Justices wrote a total of seven separate opinions. In the short term, the Baze decision will result in the resumption of executions, which had been subject to a de facto moratorium since the Court agreed to hear the case.  In the long term, the decision's likely impact is unclear...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).