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Monday, March 19, 2018
Justices decline to weigh in on constitutionality of death penalty
Seven months after an Arizona inmate asked the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the death penalty itself, the court today declined to do so. The order denying certiorari in
the case of Abel Hidalgo
, who shot and killed two men as part of a murder-for-hire scheme in 2000, was accompanied by a 10-page statement by Justice Stephen Breyer, who was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. But Breyer’s statement focused on the second question raised by Hidalgo, who argued that the scheme that Arizona used to sentence him to death does not, as the Supreme Court has required, “genuinely narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty.”
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