Anthony M. Kennedy & Lethal Injection Newsletter
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Where Did the Supreme Court’s Concern for Due Process Suddenly Go?
25 Sep 2024 21:12 GMT
… and put to death by lethal injection shortly thereafter.
The doubts about … Black jurors. And although the Supreme Court has ruled that race discrimination … . Since Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018, the conservative bloc …
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The Supreme Court Blessed an Experimental Execution in Alabama. It Went So Wrong.
29 Jan 2024 15:03 GMT
… unusual punishment, but the Supreme Court declined to stay his … staggering news that the Supreme Court allowed the first American … to insert a needle for lethal injection. But they couldn’t … was from one of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s last Eighth Amendment …
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Supreme Risk: An Interactive Guide to Rights the Supreme Court Has Established - and Could Take Away
01 Jun 2023 10:43 GMT
… landmark decision by then-Justice Anthony Kennedy that drew sharply worded dissents … differently, such as a lethal injection without first rendering the prisoner … defendant-friendly evidence
Under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, criminal defendants have …
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US Supreme Court, ignoring exculpatory evidence, refuses to hear appeal from Louisiana death row inmate
06 Apr 2023 04:42 GMT
… and the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, the high court justices … Thomas, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruling was left standing … that a shortage of lethal injection drugs had paused all … recent spate of disastrous lethal injection executions have shown that …
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As Louisiana is set to resume executions, these 56 people are on death row
17 Mar 2025 19:54 GMT
… reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jessie Hoffman faces the … Gerald Bordelon, who received a lethal injection in 2010 for the rape … the murder of Victoria Catanese Kennedy, who police said he … records.
East Baton Rouge
Anthony Bell was sentenced to die …
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Louisiana's nitrogen gas execution back on for next week, federal appeals court rules
15 Mar 2025 01:42 GMT
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In 2019, the conservative-led Supreme Court narrowly rejected a Missouri death … Bucklew’s execution, with former Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the more liberal justices …
Missouri authorities executed Bucklew by lethal injection in October 2019, six months …
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Dissents from the bench: A Supreme Court tradition missing during Covid
30 Jun 2021 09:45 GMT
… & Supreme Court biographer
The Covid pandemic deprived the Supreme Court of its … 2015.
Nine years ago, when Justice Anthony Kennedy protested the first decision upholding … challenge to a method of lethal injection.
First, Alito announced the majority …
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An Inmate Who Sought Execution By Firing Squad Loses Supreme Court Appeal
24 May 2021 17:38 GMT
… if Missouri executes him by lethal injection, using the drug pentobarbital … .
For decades, the Supreme Court was closely divided on … But with the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018, and the … she noted, but the Supreme Court, in its 2019 opinion, …
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Supreme Court justices question lethal injection of Missouri man
06 Nov 2018 19:09 GMT
… Bucklew's execution, with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the court's … liberal wing in the majority. Kennedy has since retired and been … 's second Supreme Court appointee.
The Supreme Court broadly upheld lethal injection a decade ago …
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President Trump’s Short List of Supreme Court Nominees
19 Sep 2020 23:28 GMT
… of 25 potential Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kethledge graduated from … R) and clerked for Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kethledge has taught at the … upholding Ohio’s method of lethal injection for executions, and Michigan …