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A snapshot on the federal death penalty nationally from a Louisville brief

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Several federal district court’s around the country have begun to put high profile litigation online.  The Western District of Kentucky has put large parts of USA v. Steven Green online.  A substantial number of briefs have been recently filed. I found informative the current history of the federal death penalty in a passage from the Motion to Declare the Federal Death Penalty Act Unconstitutional Because it is Arbitrary.  That passage notes: One cannot review the chronicles of murder eligible for the federal death penalty without coming to the realization that all of the cases are by their own terms horrible, and all involved the infliction of agony on victims and survivors and yet, for indiscernible reasons, some defendants were sentenced to death, while the overwhelming majority were not...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).