The Supreme Court opens its 2013-14 Term on the first Monday in October. This Monday, however, the justices will conference pending cases.
"Capital Cases in the Long Conference," is Kent Scheidegger's post at the Crime and Consequences blog.
Monday is the U.S. Supreme Court's annual "long conference" in which they consider certiorari petitions (i.e., requests to take up cases decided in lower courts) that have built up over the summer. The very valuable Cert Pool has the full list, 2127 cases as of this writing.
There are 68 capital cases on the list. I extracted them into an Excel spreadsheet. The cases include:
Scheidegger then highlights a handful of the cases.
Related posts are in the Supreme Court category index.
For anyone new to Court watching, Tom Goldstein's SCOTUSblog is the essential site.
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