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Can we learn anything from five months without executions?

By Douglas A. Berman

The last execution in the United States was on September 25, 2007.  That date was the day that the Supreme Court's announced it would be reviewing the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols, and Michael Richard was executed in Texas that night after the US Supreme Court refused to block his execution.  Thereafter, however, the Supreme Court has blocked every subsequent state effort to go forward with an execution as it deals with the Baze case concerning the constitutional standards for judging execution methods. As detailed in a number of prior posts, this extraordinary pause in executions provides an extraordinary opportunity for capital punishment research to examine and assess the death penalty in the United States at a time of extraordinary uncertainty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).