Anthony M. Kennedy & Lethal Injection Newsletter
-
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 …
-
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 …
-
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 …
-
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 …
-
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, …
-
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 …
-
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 …
-
With Kavanaugh in place, Supreme Court takes bumpy right turn
01 Jul 2019 16:34 GMT
That may still be true. But the term that ended last week showed that the road to fulfilling long-held conservative goals will feature some speed bumps. In the first term since Kavanaugh succeeded swing vote Anthony Kennedy, conservatives won a major …
-
10 defining moments of the Supreme Court’s term
29 Jun 2019 13:14 GMT
… 48, to succeed retired Justice Anthony Kennedy and he took his … her.
When the Supreme Court revealed that Ginsburg had … claim that execution by lethal injection would cause him unconstitutional … public commentary.
RELATED: Supreme Court creates new limits to …
-
AI child porn bill heads to Idaho Senate
14 Feb 2024 00:15 GMT
… 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that it … majority ruling of that decision — Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, David … . This month, the state Supreme Court also heard arguments for the … carry out death sentences if lethal injection chemicals can't …