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Kennedy v. Louisiana

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Today's Los Angeles Times carries the editorial, "Will the Supreme Court reconsider?" The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Robert H. Jackson once archly observed, are not final because they are infallible; they're infallible only because they are final. But what about when they're not? That question will be presented to the undoubtedly chagrined jurists when they return from their summer recess to consider a motion for reconsideration in one of the court's most celebrated -- and criticized -- rulings of the past term. The case, Kennedy vs. Louisiana, established a prohibition against state laws that would subject anyone but murderers to the death penalty, a welcome result that halted the expansion of a barbaric exercise of the state's ultimate power...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).