COMMENTS: The Winter’s Tale
Yesterday, ABC broke into its newscast with Jan Crawford Greenburg's (no link) live stand-up from the Supreme Court on its decision to stay the lethal injection execution of a Mississippi murderer. A day later, NBC's Pete Williams put together a taped package. He explained that the effect of the ruling was to put all executions using that method on hold until the Court decides "in the late spring" whether such punishments are cruel and unusual, and should therefore be banned as unConstitutional. Williams estimated that 14 inmates on Death Rows around the nation will now at least live through another winter.
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