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• Up the Road From Scottsboro, Justice Stevens Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

  Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 2:36 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  It seems fitting that Justice John Paul Stevens chose Chattanooga, Tenn., for his first public comments since he declared that capital punishment is unconstitutional with these words in Baze v. Rees : [T]he imposition of the death penalty represents "the Read More...
  Filed under: John Paul Stevens, capital punishment, rape, Equal Protection Clause, right to counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, Hollace Ransdall

• Texas Judge Rebuffs Mexico's Lawyer, Sets Execution Date in Consular Access Treaty Case

  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:05 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Harris County, Texas, Judge Caprice Cosper has set Aug. 5 as the date for execution of José Ernesto Medellín, whose bid for relief the U.S. Supreme Court rejected in a 6-3 decision issued at the end of March. At issue in Medellín v. Texas was Article Read More...
  Filed under: John Paul Stevens, capital punishment, Stephen G. Breyer, Sandra Babcock, International Court of Justice, Donald Donovan, Caprice Cosper, John G. Roberts Jr., Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

• No Time for Revival

  Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:10 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Does the cruel-and-unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbid execution for crimes that do not result in the death of the victim? That's a wide-angle framing of the question on which the Supreme Court's set to hear Read More...
  Filed under: John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court, capital punishment, proportionality, rape, racism, children, pornography, Stuart Banner, 8th Amendment

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