Conservative justices are outraged that the sentences of those responsible for ‘horrendous murders’ could be overturned on what some see as a technicalitySupreme court tensions over capital punishment burst into the open again on Wednesday as rival justices clashed over a series of gruesome murders in Kansas that could overturn two-thirds of the US state’s death row cases.
The related cases before the court,Kansas v Gleason and Kansas v Carr, challenge the Kansas state supreme court’s decision to overturn death sentences on the grounds that inadequate jury directions were given. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com