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23 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
Those challenges have alleged that Black defendants are more likely than White defendants to get death sentences, even when they commit comparable crimes.In 1972, the United States Supreme Court’s Furman v. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 9:59 am
United States v. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am
The Constitution of the United States has been called the world’s most important legal document. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
No one thought these states were no longer in the United States. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
The last half century has witnessed extraordinary, almost unimaginable, changes in how Americans think about the death penalty.Fifty years ago, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court brought a temporary halt to capital punishment in Furman v. [read post]
4 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Wade, decided in 1973, is a precedent of the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
27 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
The first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors could not agree on whether he should be convicted of second-degree or first-degree murder.In advance of that trial, the prosecutors developed a strategy to get around the requirements of the United States Supreme Court’s 1986 Batson v Kentucky decision. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 9:00 pm
Executions in the United States frequently go seriously wrong. [read post]
14 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
”This conception of clemency is continuous with a line of cases going back to the first United States Supreme Court case on clemency in 1833.That case, United States v. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
From that it follows that it is impermissible to base state policies on claimsabout the divine will. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 9:00 pm
“The United States,” an NBC report notes,” is currently the only country in the world that sentences juveniles to life without the possibility of parole. [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 12:28 am
Note that I write this post during the public hearings for the January 6th Commission, which is faithfully documenting an attempted coup of the United States government that would not have been possible without a rampant populist fervor that continues to this day. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
The commission rejected it and opted for the electric chair.For nearly a hundred years after New York’s decision, no state in the United States authorized lethal injection. [read post]
12 May 2022, 4:24 am
Russia’s prioritisation of operations in the Donbas has left Russian units deployed in the Kharkiv region vulnerable to Ukrainian counterattacks, the update adds. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 12:43 pm
Thus, he joined a dissent by Chief Justice Melville Fuller in United States v. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
”For a brief period in the 1960s and 1970s, courts rejected the “hands off” doctrine and used the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment as a justification to scrutinize and reform the conditions of confinement in America’s prisons.Pugh v Locke, decided in 1976, is one of the most famous examples of this approach. [read post]
19 Mar 2022, 2:09 pm
In the United States, federal agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and their state analogues, regularly set exposure standards that could not and should not hold up in a common-law tort case. [read post]
6 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
Gross.Anti-death penalty activists and death penalty supporters across the United States are watching the Oklahoma litigation closely. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
Following the United States Supreme Court’s twisted rulings in Baze v. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 9:00 pm
Indeed, abolitionists have good reason to fear such a reaction given what happened several decades ago in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Furman v. [read post]
