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Jan 21, 2009: crimlaw issues

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

I’m sure I’m not the only crimlaw type wondering what to expect from the next administration following what is expected today’s Democratic electoral victory.   Speaking strictly for me, here is what I think we’ll see. As to the narrow issue of this blog, following the elections the death penalty will likely continue to wither on the vine.  Sen. Obama is a death penalty reformer, not an abolitionist. One of the rarely spoken accomplishments of Sen. Obama is his voice in reforming the death penalty and criminal justice system in Illinois.  Invariably both would have been reformed without him in some shape and form, however, the scars of the fight to get the broad based reforms that ultimately passed he still bares. For the federal death penalty what is clear is the Bush administration’s capital prosecution practices are coming to an end...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).