The Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence somehow just got much worse.
At the end of last month, the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court went out of its way againits fervent support for the death penalty and its hostility to claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in capital cases. In a May 30 decision, the court’s majorityto show that it will only grant relief in cases where capital defense lawyers commit the most extreme and egregious errors.
“That is particularly true,” Sotomayor explained, “when, as here, the majority in the first instance parses a complex record containing contested medical diagnoses and disputed allegations of abuse and trauma.”As Gorsuch had urged them to do, his conservative colleagues ignored what Sotomayor called the court’s “usual practice” of not deciding on its own the “predicate factual questions in the first instance.
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