Supreme Court of the United States

Jefferson Dunn v. Vernon Madison.

November 6, 2017138 S. Ct. 9

Summary

Justice Breyer joins the Court’s per curiam disposition and, in a separate concurring opinion, highlights the problem of extraordinarily long delays on death row, arguing that such delays exacerbate the cruelty of capital punishment and suggest reconsidering the death penalty’s constitutionality.