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Article: Saved, perhaps; The death penalty.(A possible death row reprieve)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2003
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Summerlin: in better nick than his judge
A stoned judge reopens the issue of capital sentencing
MORE than a hundred prisoners awaiting execution in Arizona, Idaho and Montana could be reprieved as the result of a federal appeals court ruling this week. In a 8-3 vote, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that last year's Supreme Court decision requiring death sentences to be decided by juries, not judges, should be retroactive.
Arizona, where some 90 death-row inmates may be affected, has decided to appeal this ruling to the federal Supreme Court. Its own state Supreme Court, along with Nevada's and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, has ...