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Texas still waiting to kill

By Gritsforbreakfast

Though the headlines shouted that the US Supreme Court approved lethal injection by a 7-2 margin, allowing executions to resume, when and how they will do so still must be decided on a state by state basis. Doc Berman points to a helpful column by Michael Dorf at Findlaw, declaring in part:Last week, in Baze v. Rees, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Kentucky's administration of the death penalty via lethal injection. To say that the case divided the Justices would be a gross understatement. There was no opinion for the Court as a whole, and the nine Justices wrote a total of seven separate opinions. In the short term, the Baze decision will result in the resumption of executions, which had been subject to a de facto moratorium since the Court agreed to hear the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).