These 73 "required" death prosecutions represent a remarkably large proportion--one-third--of the 216 defendants authorized for the death penalty since 2001.Taken together, these changes in the letter andimplementation of the federal government's death penaltyprocedures represent all tend in a single direction: greater centralization of decision-making authority in the Attorney General and Main Justice, deployed to produce a greater number of death penalty trials and… [read post]

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Jonathan HafetzLitigation Director, Liberty and National Security ProjectBrennan Center for Justice at NYU School of LawThe District of Columbia Circuit's 2-1 decision in Boumediene v. [read post]

District Court for the District of Columbia may also bolster one of Libby's central defenses: that he simply forgot about Valerie Plame because he was too preoccupied with weighty national-security matters. Visit the Litigation Practice Center • SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED More Stories Fish & Richardson Announces Biggest D.C. [read post]