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Interesting sentencing doings at this week's ALI annual meeting

By Douglas A. Berman

As regular readers may know, The American Law Institute has been working on a revision of the sentencing provisions of the Model Penal Code for nearly a decade.  And, as detailed in this tentative agenda, this week's annual meeting of the ALI includes another presentation and discussion of a draft of the new proposed MPC sentencing provisions.  (Background on the ALI sentencing project can be accessed at this link.) As the 2009 meeting agenda also shows, however, there is an even more notable sentencing item on the ALI's schedule: the presentation of a capital punishment report and a "vote on Council recommendation that ALI withdraw Model Penal Code § 210.6."   As MPC fans know, § 210.6 is the provision of the MPC that sets forth a whole bunch of rules for the administration of the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 17, 2009 (boomark / email).