Morning Docket: 04.17.08
* Splintered Supreme Court upholds lethal injection as method of execution. [How Appealing (mother of all linkwraps); SCOTUSblog]
* Federal government to expand its DNA database, to include samples from arrestees as well as convicts. [Washington Post]
* Dan Slater is more obsessed with Harry Potter than most 13-year-old girls. Here’s his dispatch on the last day of trial. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Internet commenters go wild in China, as the government censors the web with a somewhat lighter hand. [Washington Post]
* Former Newark mayor Sharpe James convicted on federal fraud charges. Honorary Lawyer of the Day? (In 1988, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Montclair State University.) [New York Times]
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hey brian nichols, you're going down!
holy crap...china appears to be full of auto admit posters.
I'm confused. Is Dan Slater more obsessed with Harry Potter than he is obsessed with most 13-year-old girls, or is he more obsessed with Harry Potter than most 13-year-old girls are?
Scratch that. I don't really want to know.
I'm familiar with Jeri Johnson, and I'm very surprised that she would give such easily unravelled testimony. She's extremely sharp, and not at all the out-of-touch academe she certainly comes across as being here. I suspect the Imperio curse...
Thank gods we can get back to executing these criminals. Now all we need is an affirmation of the constitutionality of death for child rape... though an overruling of the per se rule that rape of an adult female cannot be constitutionally punished by execution would be nice.
DAN SLATER is a one-man law-blogging army and he's been KICKING YOUR SORRY ASSES since his first day on the job.
however, his Harry Potter trial coverage sucked.
"A state is free to choose a procedure, Roberts wrote, if it is shown to be 'feasible, readily implemented, and in fact significantly reduce[s] a substantial risk of severe pain.'"
Great, so we can just take them into a steel box with a drain in the middle, and shoot them point-blank in the back of the head with a large-caliber hollow point. Messy from our perspective, but very painless from theirs.
10:31, we could learn a thing or two from china
People don't have an "OFF-switch"--just make it fast.