The Supreme Court lifted the stay of execution previously issued in the case of Virginia murderer Christopher Emmett. Previous posts on this case are here, here, and here. Justice Stevens dissented from today's lifting of the stay, joined by Justices Souter and Ginsburg.

No new grants of certiorari for full briefing and argument are in the orders list. The Court turned down the Florida injection cases of Lightbourne v. McCollum, No. 07-10265 and Schwab v. Florida, No. 07-10275. No big surprise there, as even the dissent in Baze v. Rees cited Florida's procedure as the preferable way to go.