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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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
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.
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
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.
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
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)
As such, there are, technically, only two noted dissents to Hamm's stay request.
Here is the Dunn v. Madison concurrence to which Breyer refers:https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/583/17-193/concur4.html …
Note that both executions proceeding tonight resulted from death sentences reached by non-unanimous jury recommendations.
How many states allow non unanimous juries for criminal convictions?
Oregon and Louisiana:http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/01/campaign_to_repeal_oregons_unu.html …
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