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Effective reflections on Baze and Kennedy

By Douglas A. Berman

Though the Supreme Court has a relatively light death penalty docket this term (which I consider a cause for celebration), the two big cases are doozies.  The Baze lethal injection case and the Kennedy child rape case could both produce very important rulings, and this new piece from The Weekly Standard highlights their import.  Here are excerpts:This Supreme Court term marks a crossroads for death penalty jurisprudence.  For the first time since 1890, the Court is considering the constitutionality of a particular means of execution ? the lethal injection cocktail currently used by most states. And it is expected to rule, in a second case, on the constitutionality of capital punishment for a crime other than murder ? the rape of a child...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).