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Article: A pointless extinction; Death penalty.(The Supreme Court's ruling on lethal injections)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2008
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It's not unusual
The Supreme Court's ruling upholding lethal injections has resolved nothing
ACROSS America, those states that still impose the death penalty have been rushing to resume executions following the Supreme Court's ruling on April 16th upholding the use of lethal injections. More than 40 executions had been put on hold until the court decided. But the end of the seven-month de facto nationwide moratorium is unlikely to produce a bloodbath. Rather, as Justice Clarence Thomas grumbled, the seven-to-two ruling "is sure to engender more litigation...[because] we have left the states with nothing resembling a bright-line rule."
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