Death penalty items around the blogsphere

A few items concerning the death penalty have caught my eye around the blogsphere:

• The Connecticut Law Blog is covering, as their name would suggest, Connecticut death penalty developments with posts here and here and here reporting on the hearing concerning death row volunteer Michael Ross’s competency and a post here on a proposed amendment to the state’s death penalty law.

• Dan Markel at PrawfsBlawg discusses here his forthcoming article on the death penalty and also promises future commentary on the recent death penalty article by Professors Sunstein and Vermeule suggesting capital punishment might be morally required, which I noted here and critiqued here.