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Article: Supreme Court may be ready to set new limits on death penalty
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2001
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Supreme Court may be ready to set new limits on death penalty
Justices, lawyers look closer at how capital punishment is applied
By ANNE GEARAN
Associated Press
Sunday, August 5, 2001
Washington -- Almost every week a death row inmate somewhere in
America asks the nation's highest court for a reprieve. Almost every
week the Supreme Court says no, and another execution goes forward.
Now, as the two female justices publicly express qualms about the
death penalty, the high court seems prepared this fall for the most
extensive reconsideration of the issue in a quarter-century.
The court is far from a head-on confrontation over whether the
death penalty violates the Constitution's prohibition on ...