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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A slow news week ends with a flurry of articles. Nebraska legislators appear to be in no hurry to “fix” its death penalty scheme following the striking down of its sole method of execution. Nebraska now enters that twilight zone of having the death penalty n paper but no effective way of implementing it. The New York Times on Saturday discloses that the Pentagon is putting its final touches on six Guantanamo prosecutions allegedly arising from the 9/11 attacks. These will invariably be death eligible trials and will be watched closely here. One of the fascinating questions will be how the Eighth Amendment applies to these show trials and whether evidence which was obtained through torture, and the government has conceded it did in fact obtain information through such means, will be admissible...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).