Lots of significant new "who sentences" stories surrounding the death penalty

Especially when we go a long time between classes, I trust students realize that following developments at my main blog is a good way to maintain the "low stress, high learning" experience. And especially in the last few days, we have had a lot of (educational?) "who sentences" stories relating to the death penalty.  Here are links to just some of these stories:

• Ohio planning to use new three-drug execution protocol to get its machinery of death operative in January 2017

• On eve of VP debate, a deep dive into "Tim Kaine’s Long, Conflicted History With The Death Penalty"

• Untroubled by SCOTUS Hurst ruling, unanimous Alabama Supreme Court upholds state's capital punishment procedures

• Pew survey indicates "Support for death penalty lowest in more than four decades"