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Will Texas try to ensure record death-row stay gets longer?

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed here at SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court's work today did not include any notable criminal justice decision.  As detailed in this AP article, however, the Justices did make headlines with a notable cert denied in a capital case:The longest-serving prisoner on Texas' death row won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that his case must go back to his trial court in Dallas.  Ronald Chambers, 53, has been on death row for more than 32 years, sent there in 1976 for the abduction and fatal shooting of 22-year-old Mike McMahan, a Texas Tech University student from Washington state. Without comment, the high court Monday declined to review a federal appeals court's decision to send back Chambers' case because questions used by jurors to decide his death sentence were improper...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).