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"Search for guidelines on death penalty cases continues to consume justices' time"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new article in today's Washington Post.  Here are some excerpts: When the Supreme Court hands down a list of the (few) cases it has picked for its docket and the (many) petitions it has rejected, it sometimes is accompanied by a commentary from one or more of the justices.  More often than not, the subject is the death penalty. Even as the number of executions falls and the death sentences handed out decrease, the court still spends a remarkable amount of its time deciding whether someone receives the ultimate punishment.  Or at least deciding when other judges have made the right decision. The court's decision to deny certiorari and leave the ruling of the lower court in place draws complaints from both ends of the bench...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).