U.S. Supreme Court Addresses Two Death Penalty Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in Monday on two death penalty cases. The Court reversed an 11th Circuit finding that an Alabama prisoner could not bring a civil rights case in which he argued a lethal injection would violate his right against cruel and unusual punishment. And the Court let stand a Georgia Supreme Court ruling that had upheld a requirement that capital defendants making retardation claims prove the retardation "beyond a reasonable doubt."

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