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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      JUST IN: #SCOTUS denies a stay of execution for Eric Branch, due to be executed in Florida tonight.pic.twitter.com/whL9Y3cmbw

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      BREAKING: In Texas, meanwhile. Gov. Gregg Abbott has commuted Thomas Whitaker's death sentence to a sentence of life without parole. Whitaker also was scheduled to be executed tonight. https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Governor_Abbott_Commutes_Sentence_Of_Thomas_Whitaker_02222018.pdf …pic.twitter.com/rmBCfnDYF4

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    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      And, in the third execution scheduled in the US tonight, the Supreme Court, via Justice Thomas, has issued a stay of execution for Doyle Hamm in Alabama. This is likely temporary so the court can review his stay request.pic.twitter.com/pfp26IxpCo

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    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      This often happens in states where the corrections dep't will not halt a scheduled execution in the absence of a court order requiring them to halt the execution. It does not, generally, say anything about how seriously the justices are considering the claim.

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    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      BREAKING: #SCOTUS denies a stay of execution for Doyle Hamm, set to be executed tonight in Alabama. Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor dissent.pic.twitter.com/g7A0OXCrMA

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    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      Alabama is now set to execute a 61-year old with cancer who lacks accessible veins in his arms by a means "never ... tried before in Alabama." This man was sentenced to death for a 1987 murder on a jury's 11-1 recommendation.

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    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      Eric Branch, executed in Florida tonight, died at 7:05 p.m. He was sentenced to death on a 10-2 jury recommendation for a 1993 rape and murder. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-florida-execution-eric-scott-branch-0222-story.html …pic.twitter.com/wMwKl2fQ2U

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    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      Clarification: Breyer's opinion in Doyle Hamm's case is not styled as a dissent. It is a statement "respecting the denial" of the stay and cert petition. And yet, it concludes by stating, "I would reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty itself." (h/t @joshindenver)

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    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      As such, there are, technically, only two noted dissents to Hamm's stay request.

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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      Here is the Dunn v. Madison concurrence to which Breyer refers:https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/583/17-193/concur4.html …

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

      Note that both executions proceeding tonight resulted from death sentences reached by non-unanimous jury recommendations.

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          Chris Geidner Retweeted

          Update on Doyle Hamm's scheduled Alabama execution. Media witness @JackRoyer reports that the witnesses are still waiting in vans outside the building housing the execution chamber. https://twitter.com/JackRoyer/status/966890323765964802 …

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          Chris Geidner Retweeted

          Breaking —> https://twitter.com/jackroyer/status/966909242635558913 …

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          In all, only one of the three executions that were slated to go ahead across the US at the beginning of the day had been carried out by the end of it.

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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

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          Note: More than 2.5 hours passed between the time the US Supreme Court lifted its temporary stay and the time the state called off the execution. So, I’m not quite sure I understand this explanation, unless there were issues —> https://twitter.com/jackroyer/status/966909618214416386 …

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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Bernard E. Harcourt

          Here is Doyle Hamm’s lawyer —>https://twitter.com/bernardharcourt/status/966912890811723776 …

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          Bernard E. HarcourtVerified account @BernardHarcourt
          No, I wasn’t gesturing that time was running out! I was communicating that they probably couldn’t find a vein and had been poking him for over 2 1/2 hours.... as I had told them since July! Unconscionable. Simply unconscionable. https://twitter.com/jackroyer/status/966907105591443456 …
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        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          Chris Geidner Retweeted

          Live update from Alabama on tonight’s called-off execution —> https://twitter.com/jackroyer/status/966916606507954176 …

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        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          The Alabama Corrections head, Jeff Dunn, came out to speak without having spoken with medical personnel, so he basically couldn’t explain anything about what happened with Doyle Hamm from 9p to 11:30p CT. (Thanks much for live-streaming, @JackRoyer.)pic.twitter.com/gcQbbVpAZO

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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22

          This was Justice Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion earlier tonight, explaining why she and Justice Sotomayor would have granted a stay of execution to Hamm.pic.twitter.com/5UWRDdSV8a

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        2. Mind Omelet‏ @mindomelet Feb 22
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          How many states allow non unanimous juries for criminal convictions?

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Feb 22
          Replying to @mindomelet

          Oregon and Louisiana:http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/01/campaign_to_repeal_oregons_unu.html …

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