Constitutional Law
Jun. 10, 2014
Death penalty decision raises issues
Disturbing implications that the Supreme Court might be slipping back into the kind of micromanagement of capital sentencing that has so badly obstructed justice in the past. By Kent Scheidegger
On May 27, in Hall v. Florida, the United States Supreme Court disapproved the manner in which Florida was determining who is and who is not intellectually disabled for the purpose of being exempt from capital punishment. The decision has no immediate effect on California, but longer-term it carries some disturbing implications that the Supreme Court might be slipping back into the kind of micromanagement of capital sentencing that ha...
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