Criminal,
Books
Aug. 17, 2018
The traveling chair
Elizabeth Winthrop’s “The Mercy Seat” gives us a glimpse into the early days of the electric chair.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
Two weeks ago, Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from a Supreme Court denial of an emergency stay of execution for a condemned inmate in Tennessee. It was a straight-up Eighth Amendment argument, with Sotomayor positing that the three-stage death cocktail's first step -- completely anesthetizing the condemned with the tranquilizer Versed -- was sometimes unsuccessful, proven to be so in other identical executions. This left open the strong possibility that the prisone...
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