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Three months after Baze, has anything really changed?

By Douglas A. Berman

Back in May in this post, I asked "A month after Baze, has anything really changed?".  Two months later, this observation from that prior post still seems spot on: "it seems that all Baze really achieved was a brief national hiatus in executions and a new focal point for legal arguments in lethal injection litigation....  Looking back [now three months] after the Baze ruling, it is hard to see how the Supreme Court's decision to take up lethal injection protocols really advanced the capital ball much at all." To be more specific, one can check out the execution data from the DPIC:  there have been ten executions over the last three months, nine of which were by lethal injection and all of which took place in those southern states that have traditionally executed the most offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).