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Death Penalty Litigation - The Supreme Court Decides This Federal Prisoner Must Die Tonight

Sotomayor's dissent was an exceptionally powerful and well done dissent. She spoke to her colleagues, I think, to the people, and she said this is not justice. The prisoner contracted coronavirus, so he couldn't have brought these claims before. You can't use any particular case as an occasion to kind of stick one to the death penalty bar; there was a very good reason why these claims were late arising.

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