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Life and death realities as states press on with the death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

Lots of death penalty news and notes being well covered in the blogosphere: SCOTUSblog here reports that the Supreme Court has denied stay requests from the Mississippi defendant scheduled to be executed by tonight Grits for Breakfast here ruminates on why a jury yesterday rejected a death sentence for the person convicted of murdering on of Houston's finest police officers StandDown here provides updates on the state battle over lethal injection protocols in Ohio And Capital Defense Weekly has effective additional coverage and links on these topics and others.  Also, I notice that the CDW execution data suggests we could have as many as nine executions over the next four weeks. UPDATE:  The AP has the very latest news here: Mississippi corrections officials say convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry has been executed at the state penitentiary...continue to full post

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