Here we go again. Mark Christeson has a well deserved date with the Missouri execution team tomorrow. See description of the crime here. The usual last minute applications have been filed with the Supreme Court, but do the lawyers filing them really represent Christeson? Justice Alito, the assigned Circuit Justice for the Eighth Circuit, including Missouri, wants to know.
See this post regarding the Ballard case in Pennsylvania last August.
See this post regarding the Ballard case in Pennsylvania last August.
Looks like another unexplained stay in a case where justice should have long been carried out. A 6-3 vote. The Court ought to be profoundly ashamed of itself.