
Leg Day
Strict Scrutiny
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The Death Penalty Docket
The court maintains a really active death penalty docket that it goes through every single term. Sometimes these cases are disposed of quite quickly, in other cases they actually have more lasting consequences. The way it works at the court is every week there's a clerk who is a permanent employee at the court known as the death penalty clerk. That clerk will send out a list of all of the scheduled executions over the next few weeks and then await any filings that might come in seeking an execution stay.
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