Howard Basham provides this preview of the first oral arguments scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court next term in his "On Appeal" column for law.com.

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog has this post on the November calendar just announced.

46 relatives of a N.C. death row inmate have filed a lawsuit asking that they all be allowed to attend the execution. The Associated Press story is here (hat tip: Sentencing Law & Policy).