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Friday, October 29, 2010

Courts - More on "Justices can't cite foreign law in death penalty cases but just fine with foreign lethal injection drugs for executions"

Updating yesterday's ILB entry, there is a strong editorial today in the NY Times. A quote:

In the case of Jeffrey Landrigan, convicted of murder and executed by Arizona on Tuesday, the system failed him at almost every level, most disturbingly at the Supreme Court. In a 5-to-4 vote, the court’s conservative majority allowed the execution to proceed based on a stark misrepresentation.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 29, 2010 10:48 AM
Posted to Courts in general