Entries tagged with “Shonda Walter”
Issues
Federal Death Penalty
,Nov 30, 2015
Defendants Begin Systemic Challenges to Constitutionality of Death Penalty
Lawyers for capital defendants and death row inmates across the country have begun to respond to what lawyers in one federal case described as the “clarion call for reconsideration of the constitutionality of the death penalty” issued by Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in their dissenting opinion in June in Glossip v. Gross. Systemic challenges to the death penalty have been filed in a Vermont federal court and a Utah state trial court seeking hearings to present…