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27 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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]
14 Jul 2020, 10:14 am by Melody McDonald Lanier
Statistics show the imposition of the death penalty has sharply declined in the Lone Star state over the past two decades. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 9:40 am
A 44-year-man whose lawyers claim he is mentally retarded is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening in Huntsville, Tex., unless the United States Supreme Court agrees to hear his case. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 4:10 pm by tjsllibrary
Considerable emphasis is placed upon the twentieth century, especially the period since the 1972 Furman v. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 10:07 pm
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4 Dec 2023, 3:06 pm by Aaron Moss
On January 1, 2024, Peter Pan will finally enter the public domain in the United States—but not in Barrie’s native United Kingdom. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 6:12 pm
He received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:48 p.m. in the death chamber at a state prison in Huntsville, Tex., after the United States Supreme Court denied a request from his lawyers to stay his execution. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 3:00 pm by Jon Katz
  Brown dodged execution when the United States Supreme Court invalidated all then-existing death penalty laws, in Furman v. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 9:57 am by Steve Hall
The legal compact demanded by the United States Supreme Court when it reinstituted capital punishment as a sentencing option in 1976 has been broken, repeatedly, not by convicts, but by hundreds of overzealous administrators of the nation's justice systems. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 4:19 am by Lawrence Solum
  For example, the constitutionality of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment was actively contested by the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, both before and after Furman v. [read post]
30 May 2009, 5:21 am
Justice Blackmun understood the difference when he was first appointed, and he explained it in his dissent in Furman v. [read post]
25 Dec 2016, 9:31 pm by RegBlog
As the new year arrives, RegBlog would like to reflect on the many important regulatory developments and debates that occurred in the United States and around the world in 2016. [read post]