- Kansas lawmakers (a month after the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty by judicial review) continue to debate whether they should try to rewrite the statute authorizing the death penalty. Some are saying that they should just repeal the entire law rather than fix it.
- In China lawmakers are also questioning the death penalty. Actually, a Tibetan monk recently had his sentence commuted from death to life.
- Mexico wants to block the execution of a Mexican National sentenced to death in America.
- Roper v. Simons hasn't been decided, but Virginia is more than likely going to ban the juvenile death penalty in their state regardless of the outcome.
- Death penalty advocates need not despair. The death penalty is still going strong in most places in the south: Kentucky, South Carolina, and Tennessee are all on top of seeking the death penalty.
Unlike other states with the death penalty, he said, the issue in Connecticut isn't so much about racial or economic disparities. It's not even about the possibility of innocence - most have confessed to their crimes, and all have had access to top-notch defense lawyers and a mandatory appeal process.
What Connecticut is debating is whether or not they want to answer violence with violence.
Just today the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of execution for Michael Ross so that an appeal can be made to the Supreme Court. Connecticut with then have until midnight on Monday to execute Ross.
