Interesting blogsphere sentencing items

I see a number interesting sentencing-related items on other blogs that merit note:

• TalkLeft spotlights here the push in North Carolina to reform the administration of the death penalty in that state.

• How Appealing here has links to articles discussing the recent release from confinement of Leroy Hendricks, who was at the center of the Supreme Court's 1997 ruling Kansas v. Hendricks about involuntary commitment for sex offenders.

• Orin Kerr at the at The Volokh Conspiracy here makes some interesting points about an interesting Washington Post piece about the death penalty in Germany.