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"Death penalty process blasted; appeals follow," is Bill Rankin's report from the Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Here's an extended excerpt of this must-read article:When U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens recently criticized the way the Georgia Supreme Court reviews death-penalty cases, he appeared to be inviting legal challenges on the issue. Georgia promised to ensure fairness in the application of the death penalty when it reinstated capital punishment in 1973. But Stevens said one facet of Georgia?s review to achieve that goal has become cursory and could result in arbitrary or discriminatory sentences. ?The Georgia Supreme Court ? must take seriously its obligation to safeguard against the imposition of death sentences that are arbitrary or infected by impermissible considerations such as race,? Stevens wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).