Recapping a long weekend

As I recover from a great fireworks show last night, I found it useful to review blog coverage since the start of joyfully long holiday weekend:

SUPREME COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Biggest SCOTUS death penalty developments
• Biggest SCOTUS non-capital sentencing developments
• A holiday retrospective on Blakely fireworks
• If you can't get enough SCOTUS blogging...

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The sad realities of the modern death penalty
• A medical perspective on the lethal injection mess
• Should executions be more public?

BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Judge Adelman on variances from career offender guideline
• Fourth Circuit finds fast-track variance unreasonable
• And the Booker beat goes on the in circuits
• Tracking reasonableness review outcomes

SEX OFFENDER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Liberty versus security in the war on ... sex offenders
• Missouri Supreme Court addresses sex offender registry