The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a pair of Kansas Supreme Court rulings that reversed the death sentences of three convicted murderers.
The 8-1 ruling in Kansas v. Carr and two related cases was written by Justice Antonin Scalia and did not bear the earmarks of a court that is ready to re-examine the constitutionality of the death penalty—as some had hoped after the court’s ruling last term in an Oklahoma case.
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