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April 14, 2015
Interesting recent Buckeye death penalty headlines (despite extended extended moratorium)
After Ohio Governor (and future GOP Prez candidate?) John Kasich and other executive officials put off all Ohio executions for the entire 2015 calendar year, I figured Ohio would not be make all that much death penalty news until at least 2016. But, as these recent local headlines help highlight, an executive branch moratorium on executions does not stop others from taking about the death penalty in the Buckeye state:
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From the AP here, "Bill would be among several to revise death penalty law"
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer here, "Toddler's mother one of few women to face death penalty"
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From Cleveland.com here, "Ohio Supreme Court sets [October 2017] execution date for man on death row nearly three decades"
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From the Columbus Dispatch here, "Exonerated men speak out against death penalty, urge change"
April 14, 2015 at 05:58 PM | Permalink
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Four justices (not telling us why ... please stop bragging how you show your work) dissenting, the USSC allowed an execute to commence in Missouri:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/missouri-set-to-execute-man-amid-competence-claims-racial-bi#.be9XoLQdK
The crime very well was "brutal," but if a domestic revenge killing based on anger involving an ex-wife is the "worse of the worst," which is how the Supreme Court has roughly noted is when it is appropriate to execute (as well as colloquially what the average person probably thinks), the term doesn't have that much meaning.
There looks to be other problems.
Posted by: Joe | Apr 15, 2015 10:01:07 AM
