Wednesday round-up
on Sep 30, 2015 at 7:21 am
Court-related news today focuses on criminal cases and the death penalty in particular. Bloomberg BNA’s Kimberly Robinson interviews John Elwood (video) about the Court’s criminal docket for the upcoming Term, from the death penalty to juvenile sentencing. In the Harvard Law and Policy Review, Ben Cohen and Michael Admirand discuss finality, fallibility, and the death penalty, arguing that, although the Court “is in a position to afford” Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip “and other capital defendants an opportunity to present credible innocence claims even after a prior ‘final’ decision,” “the Court has refused to make that allowance in the past.” And Kate Brumback of the Associated Press reports that the “only woman on Georgia’s death row was executed early Wednesday morning” after the Supreme Court (among others) denied last-minute appeals.
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