Holiday road

The car and family are packed as we head out for the holiday.  Blogging will likely be light through the weekend, although I suspect I will not be able to resist doing a reprise of my Giving Thanks post from last year.  Also, I hope to find some time during the long weekend to complete the next installment of my "Dead Booker walking?" series.

In the meantime, here are some highlights since my last week-in-review post:

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Did Texas execute an innocent man?
• More evidence an innocent man was executed?
• More buzzing about possible wrongful execution(s)
• New report on the costs of capital punishment
• More on a new death penalty culture
• Latest BJS death penalty stats as we approach 1000th execution

STILL MORE ALITO ANALYSIS

• Alito motivated by anti-Warren Court feelings
• Still more on Alito and the death penalty
• Full Daily Journal article on Alito and the Constitution Project

BOOKER CIRCUIT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Seventh Circuit upholds upward departure based on uncharged (and unproven?) crimes
• Seventh Circuit vacates guideline sentence for inadequate explanation
• Judge Posner's important and flawed work in Cunningham
• Long sentence for software pirate affirmed by 8th Circuit

OTHER BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Ground zero for post-Booker crack/powder debate
• Great Booker resources from federal defenders
• Judge Gertner applies Sixth Amendment to restitution
• Another month of Booker stats from the USSC
• Data, data, data, data, data....

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Tenth Circuit argument in Angelos mandatory minimum case
• New report on incarceration and crime
• Significant Minnesota Blakely opinion
• A new argument for considering family circumstances at sentencing?
• Lots of sentencing in Harvard Law Review Supreme Court issue