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Justice Elena Kagan's first significant vote is against a stay of Teresa Lewis's execution

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in major stories from the AP and CNN and other major media sources, late yesterday the US Supreme Court refused to stay the scheduled execution of Teresa Lewis, the condemned woman sent to death row for her role in planning the killings of her husband and stepson in 2002. Lewis is now likely to be the first woman executed in the United States in five years, which is one of the reasons her story and likely execution is garnering lots of attention. Missing in the coverage I have seen, however, is an interesting gender and new Justice angle on the Supreme Court's work late last night as evidenced by text of the SCOTUS order: The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).