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Missouri Justices Split on Proportionality Review Standard

By Steve Hall

"Missouri Supreme Court overturns Lyons' death sentence, upholds Deck's," is the title of David Lieb's AP report, via the Springfield News-Leader.The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the death sentence of a man it determined was mentally disabled. But judges revealed they are split on how to decide whether death sentences are appropriate.The high court unanimously overturned the death sentence of Andrew Lyons for the 1992 slaying of his estranged girlfriend in southeast Missouri after concluding he was ineligible for execution because he is mentally disabled.In a separate case, the court unanimously upheld the death sentence of Carmen Deck for the double murder of an eastern Missouri couple in 1996. But in doing so, the seven-member court issued three separate opinions as to how it should review whether the death sentence is an appropriate punishment for a crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).