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"Death penalty decisions loom for Barack Obama"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline from this new article at Politico.  Here are excerpts from the start of a lengthy and informative article by Josh Gerstein: For the first time in his career, President Barack Obama may soon confront one of the most weighty and unsavory decisions that a chief executive must make, whether to put a murder convict to death. The decision could land on Obama?s desk within a matter of months, due to cases winding their way through the federal courts.  And while Obama is on record supporting the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes, that?s a far cry from deciding whether a specific man?s life should be taken or spared. ?The death penalty in the abstract is one thing.  The reality of the death penalty and all of its nasty details is a very different thing,? said Dianne Rust-Tierney of the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 21, 2009 (boomark / email).