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Supreme Court Adds Two Death Penalty Cases for Next Term

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Today's Washington Post carries carries the AP report, "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions..."  The justices: Accepted two death penalty cases that involve the issue of effectiveness of counsel. The court will consider throwing out the death sentence for Holly Wood, a mentally impaired Alabama man who killed his former lover. His attorney, described in court papers as lacking criminal-law experience, failed to tell jurors that Wood has an IQ of less than 70 and had been classified as mentally retarded. The justices will consider reinstating the death sentence for a convicted murderer in Pennsylvania who twice escaped from prison after being found guilty of bludgeoning and drowning a man planning to testify against him. The U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).