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Baze Vs. Rees

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  • Apr 16, 2008

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  11. Syllabus October Term, 2007 Baze V. Rees
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  12. a) This Court has upheld capital punishment as constitutional. See Gregg v. Georgia
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  13. the Court has held that an isolated mishap alone does not violate the Eighth Amendment, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber
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  14. s cases, see, e.g., Wilkerson v. Utah
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  15. opinion concurring in the judgment. Ginsburg, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Souter, J., joined. Baze v. Rees
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  16. J. Baze V. Rees
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  17. Supreme Court of the United States No. 07-5439 Ralph Baze and Thomas C. Bowling, Peti- Tioners V. John
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  18. Campbell v. Wood
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  19. U. S. 1119 (1994) (Blackmun, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (quoting State v. Frampton
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  20. New York became the first State to authorize electrocution as a form of capital punishment. Glass v. Louisiana
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  21. Malloy v. South
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  22. hereinafter Fordham Brief). Following the 9-year hiatus in executions that ended with our decision in Gregg v. Georgia
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  23. least 30 (including Kentucky) use the same combination of three drugs in their lethal injection protocols. See Workman v. Bredesen
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  24. and sentenced to death. The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld their convictions and sentences on direct appeal. See Baze v. Commonwealth
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  25. Bowling v. Commonwealth
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  26. to the Constitution, applicable to the States through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, see Robinson v. California
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  27. chosen procedure for carrying out a sentence of death as the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment. In Wilkerson v. Utah
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  28. that qualifies as cruel and unusual. In Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber
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  29. the States have fulfilled with an earnest desire to provide for a progressively more humane manner of death. See Bell v. Wolfish
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  30. App. 761. We cannot say that this finding is clearly erroneous, see Hernandez v. New
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  31. s procedures designed to ensure the delivery of thiopental. See Hamilton v. Jones
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  32. Taylor v. Crawford
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  33. see Brown v. Beck
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  34. s legitimate interest in carrying out a sentence of death in a timely manner. See Baze v. Parker
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  35. Bowling v. Parker
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  36. s consensus on lethal injection. Gomez v. United
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  37. West 2003) (held unconstitutional in People v. LaValle
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  38. but the Nebraska Supreme Court recently struck down that method under the Nebraska Constitution, see State v. Mata
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  39. the case for capital punishment was stronger when it was imposed predominantly by hanging or electrocution. Baze v. Rees
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  40. Alito, J., Concurring Baze V. Rees
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  41. and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) was designed to address this problem. See, e.g. , Woodford v. Garceau
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  42. citing Williams v. Taylor
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  43. euthanasia.pdf. Baze v. Rees
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  44. Stevens, J., Concurring in Judgment Baze V. Rees
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  45. an issue, rather than a careful analysis of relevant considerations favoring or disfavoring a conclusion. See Mathews v. Lucas
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  46. benefits, and rest in part on a faulty assumption about the retributive force of the death penalty. In Gregg v. Georgia
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  47. such as legislative enactments. See, e.g., Solem v. Helm
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  48. U. S. 321 (1998). In our recent decision in Atkins v. Virginia
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  49. White holding that the death penalty is an excessive punishment for the crime of raping a 16-year-old woman, Coker v. Georgia
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  50. See Gregg v. Georgia
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