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The haze and litigation maze after Baze

By Douglas A. Berman

The first few weeks after the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection protocol have been relatively calm.  But, as documented by lots of new media stories, the post-Baze legal haze and litigation maze is about to kick into high gear. First, as detailed in this long New York Times article, "[l]ess than three weeks after a United States Supreme Court ruling ended a seven-month moratorium on lethal injections, at least 14 execution dates have been set in six states between May 6 and October."  This article provides the list of scheduled executions posted above, and it also details that "Texas leads the list with five people now set to die here in the Walls Unit, the state's death house, between June 3 and Aug...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 03, 2008 (boomark / email).