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Justice Stevens' Legacy and the Troy Davis Case

By Steve Hall

"Stevens leaving legacy of judicial care," is the title of an OpEd in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  It's by Norman S. Fletcher, a former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice.  He's also a member of the Constitution Project?s Right to Counsel Committee.  It's a must-read.  An excerpt:One issue with which Justice Stevens may be closely associated is the death penalty. In 1976, he voted with the majority to reinstate the death penalty, ending a four-year period during which capital punishment resided in constitutional limbo.Justice Stevens? views of the death penalty and public opinion about it have evolved since 1976. In a 2007 case upholding the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures, Justice Stevens, while feeling compelled as a matter of precedent to vote with the majority, nonetheless expressed grave doubts about the death penalty, calling it ?anachronistic...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).