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How Long Can Executions Be Delayed?

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That's the title of Walter Richey's report in today's Christian Science Monitor.  LINKThirty-two years is a long time for a death-row inmate to contemplate his pending execution. But is it so long that it violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment? That was the issue at the heart of an appeal filed at the US Supreme Court on behalf of Florida death-row inmate William Lee Thompson. This week, the high court announced that it would not take up Mr. Thompson's case. The denial touched off a heated debate among three justices, including a harsh critique of capital punishment in America by Justice John Paul Stevens. The exchange took place in written comments about the dismissed appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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