More capital obsession in fast-track complaints

ODPI and StandDown Texas Project have assembled some of the extensive criticism of the new proposed rules that would enable the US Attorney General to sign off on ‘fast tracking’ federal capital habeas appeals under AEDPA.   Here are links to many of their posts providing links to all the sturm und drang over the new proposed rules:

• Greasing the Wheels on the Machinery of Death
• More on new “Go-Go Gonzales” “fast-track” authority in death penalty cases
• Lots More Opt-In Coverage – UPDATED
• Still More Opt-In

As I have said before, though I laud thoughtful consideration of any sentencing issues, I would prefer greatly this much time and attention being paid to other far more troubling and consequential aspects of federal sentencing law and policy (such as the continued reliance on acquitted conduct at non-capital sentencing).

Some recent related posts:

• Speeding up the fast track to more capital litigation
• Lots of Tennessee views on a faster waltz to executions
• Documenting and dissecting death’s delay