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Commentary on Medellin Execution: Lyle Denniston posted a commentary on the Supreme Court's recent decisions of Medellin, Kennedy, and the "meaning of silence" at SCOTUSblog today. Denniston finds it significant that in these two recent death penalty cases, the silence of the U.S. Solicitor General and Congress has or will play a role in the Court's decisions. In the case of Kennedy v. Louisiana, the U.S. Solicitor General and the state of Louisiana have asked the Supreme Court to reopen the case to address the gap left in the ruling regarding the death penalty for child rape. In Medellin, the majority denied Medellin's petition for a stay of execution in part because of the U.S. Solicitor General's decision not "to seek our intervention" in Medellin's execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).