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: Crime and Consequences

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

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Execution on Hold. Although the U.S. Supreme Court upheld lethal injection to be constitutional, the Nevada Supreme Court will not lift a stay on a convicted murderer?s execution. AP writer Brendan Riley from the San Francisco Chronicle reports Bill Gang, Nevada?s Supreme Court spokesman, will review the U.S. Supreme Court?s ruling that upheld Kentucky?s use of lethal injection. In the case of William Castillo, the state supreme court stopped his execution 90 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection for beating a woman to death with a tire iron. Read more on this story here. Special Order 40 Confusion to be Resolved. Richard Winton, LA Times staff writer,reports that LAPD Police Chief William Bratton said Wednesday that the department?s controversial policy dealing with illegal immigrants would be cleared up within the next few weeks...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).