Stays lifted
[updated]
The Supreme Court has lifted a large number of stays & denied cert in light of Baze in a slew of cases this morning. Still working through the orders list. Notable denials include Epps v. Mississippi & Taylor v. Crawford. The list appears to have the most capital case related denials since the first Monday in October. There appears to have been about a dozen lethal injection related cases & a little more than half-a-dozen other capital cert. petitions denied relief.
The SCOTUSBlog notes:
In a series of orders following up its ruling last week allowing states to use the lethal injection method of capital punishment, the Court simply denied review of 11 appeals by death-row inmates. Justic e John Paul Stevens noted in two of the case that denial of review was not the same as a rejection of the inmates’ legal challenges on the merits. Although some inmates have claimed that the procedure in their states differs in some ways from the procedure upheld by the Court in Baze v. Rees, the Court did not order lower courts in any of the 11 cases to reconsider and take Baze into account.
