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Virginia Execution

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Jerry Markon at the Washington Post has this up to date story on Virginia's execution of Kevin Green. Green was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection last night at 9 p.m. EDT in Virginia. He was pronounced dead at 10:05p.m. Local coverage from The Richmond Times Dispatch story can be found here. Green was the first inmate executed by Virginia since 2006. The U.S. Supreme Court declined Green's request for a stay yesterday. The Court also denied review of Green's new appeal (Green v. Johnson, 07-10988). Justices Stevens and Ginsburg dissented from the Court's denial. The denial and dissent can be found here. The dissent, authored by Justice Stevens and joined by Ginsburg, articulates Justice Stevens' belief that instead of denying the stay, the Court should have reviewed the merits of Green's claim "in the interest of avoiding irreversible error in capital cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).