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Article: Caution shown on death penalty. Supreme Court allows more challenges to lethal injections
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- June 13, 2006
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court made it easier Monday for death row
inmates to contest the lethal injections used across the country for
executions and to get DNA evidence before judges in a pair of rulings
that hinted at fresh caution on capital punishment.
The decisions, written by moderate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,
ease the rules for longtime prisoners to get their cases back into
court and could add years to their appeals.
"Today's decisions are further evidence of the Supreme Court's
increasing discomfort with many aspects of the death penalty system,"
said Steven Shapiro, national legal director of the American Civil
Liberties Union.
The vote was unanimous in allowing condemned ...