Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Court to review constitutionality of lethal injection
The story is here. This should be an interesting case. The Court's execution-regulation strategy has, over the years, proceeded down three main tracks: (1) regulating the fairness of the procedures through which capital sentences are handed down; (2) reducing the number of offenses for which the death penalty is a permissible punishment; and (3) narrowing the categories of offenders who may be executed. For the most part -- notwithstanding the text of the Eighth Amendment -- there have been relatively few cases dealing with execution-methods. We'll see . . .
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/09/court-to-review.html