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Bronx cheer for return of executions

By Douglas A. Berman

As noted here, last night the state of Georgia brought the death penalty back to life in the US by carrying out the first post-Baze execution.  The New York Times celebrated the news with this article, tellingly headlined "As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness," and this editorial entitled "The Death Penalty Returns."  Here are snippets from the editorial:Roughly 15 death row prisoners are scheduled to be put to death between now and October, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.  This flood of executions is the result of the Supreme Court?s ruling that upheld the constitutionality of a troubling form of lethal injection.  The next few months, as states put their machinery of death into overdrive, are an ideal time for the nation to rethink its commitment to capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).