United States:
Saylor Offers A Lonely Voice In Death-Penalty Appeals
23 September 2015
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
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The death penalty, and its implementation, have been in the
spotlight since Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf issued a
moratorium earlier in the year. Though executions have been halted,
Pennsylvania's large death row population has kept the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court busy, with the court averaging nearly
two dozen substantive decisions a year in direct appeals and
post-convinction appels related to death sentences. Over the course
of those cases, Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor has established a
voice separate and distinct from others, focusing frequently on
effective representation. Litigation Department vice chair
Bruce Merenstein explores Chief Justice
Saylor's approach in "Saylor Offers a Lonely Voice in Death-Penalty
Appeals," published in The Legal Intelligencer on
September 15, 2015.
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