Tonight the Supreme Court granted a stay on an execution that was supposed to take place tonight in Mississippi. In January the Supreme Court will see a case regarding the constitutionality of lethal injection, and they granted a stay on the execution until that decision is made. This decision obviously signals to lower courts to put a hold on executions until the January decision is made.
Does this mark a turn away from capital punishment? I have a hard time believing that the Supreme Court, with its current political majority, will vote against the use of lethal injection...
The article can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/washington/31execute.html?hp
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Let's hope the Court isn't too activist on this front. Sure, lethal injection may be cruel and unusual, but a hanging surely wouldn't have been out of line back in the day.
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