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Stays lifted

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

[updated] The Supreme Court has lifted a large number of stays & denied cert in light of Baze in a slew of cases this morning. Still working through the orders list. Notable denials include Epps v. Mississippi & Taylor v. Crawford. The list appears to have the most capital case related denials since the first Monday in October. There appears to have been about a dozen lethal injection related cases & a little more than half-a-dozen other capital cert. petitions denied relief. The SCOTUSBlog notes: In a series of orders following up its ruling last week allowing states to use the lethal injection method of capital punishment, the Court simply denied review of 11 appeals by death-row inmates. Justic e John Paul Stevens noted in two of the case that denial of review was not the same as a rejection of the inmates? legal challenges on the merits...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).