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21 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm by Steve Hall
  Though not as robust since Furman, executive clemency has been a critical tool in some states; the "traditional 'fail safe' remedy," as it was called in the 1993 Supreme Court case of Herrera v. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 12:00 am
(credit for 1959 front page) On this day in ... ... 1962 (50 years ago today), a woman was executed for the last time in California's history -- she was also the last woman to be executed in the United States before the de facto moratorium put in place by the decision in Furman v. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 3:48 pm
Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986)........................ 1 Furman v. [read post]
13 May 2007, 4:52 pm
Id. at 45.As noted by Justice Souter in his dissenting opinion in Kansas v. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 10:05 am by Steve Hall
  It would be the nation's 1,274th post-Furman executions since 1977; Ohio's 46th 2 post-Furman executions since 1999. [read post]
14 Apr 2009, 7:27 am
Here is how this part of the concurrence starts: Now in my thirtieth year as a judge on this Court, I have had an inside view of our system of capital punishment almost since the death penalty was reintroduced in the wake of Furman v. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 4:57 am by Ryan McKeen
If Ruth Bader Ginsburg has her way (and she likely won’t), it shall all be for naught: In response to a question about what she would like to accomplish in her remaining years on the court, the justice said she would like to revive the Supreme Court’s ruling in Furman v. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 3:06 pm
My colleague Professor Stone characterizes, in his recent post, the five Justices -- who are Roman Catholics -- who were in the majority in Gonzales v. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 2:14 pm by Jeff Gamso
Brennan of the United States Supreme Court stated in Furman v. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 3:43 am
Love Story updated at 10:46 PM on Sunday, July 1, 2007 It's been 35 years since the Supreme Court's watershed death penalty decision, yet little has changed with the disturbing use of capital punishment in America.In the 1972 Furman v. [read post]