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Reversal in Spisak

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The Supreme Court today reversed the decision of the Sixth Circuit, which had overturned the death sentence of unrepentant triple murderer and neo-Nazi Frank Spisak. As with yesterday's Brown case, we have a federal court of appeals declaring a state court decision to be not merely wrong but unreasonable, yet when the Supreme Court takes the case not a single Justice thinks the federal court of appeals was right.

Update: Thomas Sheeran has this story on the case for AP.

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