Richard Dieter
Richard Dieter
absolutely again amazing change essential judge knowing notice procedure seems short somewhat together
This seems to be cobbled together in short notice and without significant review. It's not absolutely essential that each person be executed on time, if there's this kind of uncertainty. I find it somewhat amazing that they could have a judge change the procedure and then change it again all while this person's not knowing even how he's going to be executed.
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Someone, either a judge or a jury, must determine beyond a reasonable doubt that government has proven an aggravating factor beyond guilt.
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Every lawyer worth his salt is putting in a lethal injection challenge.
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New Jersey has stopped all executions. Four stays of execution have been granted on this issue in various states. The US supreme court has taken a case related to this issue.
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Lethal injection is the only method being used now, for all practical purposes. The chemicals are almost the same in all the states, and they're being challenged in all the states.
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What's needed is some growing evidence from the states that they want to ban executing minors. More state governors and legislatures have to weigh in. They need some momentum in the next year or two for the justices to say, now is the time to decide this.
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This stage of the penalty phase was probably harder for the government, but that was before he took the stand and connected all the dots for the jury.
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It would be counterproductive to force the issue, then have a 5-4 vote that juveniles can be executed, ... The issue then may not be revisited for a long time. It may be a better thing for the issue to percolate, for states to ban executing minors on their own, instead of being forced to by the courts.
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These cases are not yet a trend of where things are going. The meatier issues are still unpredictable at this point.
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I don't think most people want it to be a big display again. People are just as happy not to see it.
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Commutation is meant for when the law hasn't caught up with society,
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If you are a lawyer you are filing something just like Clarence Hill as we speak.
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If you find an innocent man who has been executed, that's a final nail through that.
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It's just an unsolvable kind of problem. We're never going to have a carefree system of painless executions.