Conservative super-majority especially unwilling to consider appeals, in stance that has flown under the radar
, its increasingly controversial stance on capital punishment has flown largely under the radar.
Death penalty experts date the hardening of the court’s approach to 2019 when it effectively sided with the Trump administration in its rush to carry out federal executions for the Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center , has observed what he sees as a profound shift in the conduct of the court. “The supreme court is saying that the federal courts are no longer going to serve as a constitutional backstop in death penalty cases. It’s not just on votes on stays of execution, they are also declining to review very significant cases.”
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