Here’s one of Judge Gorsuch’s opinions on the death penalty

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Yesterday, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. In the coming weeks, we are certain to see his nomination come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and finally to the Senate floor. So I thought it might be helpful to find and try to summarize the reasoning behind some opinions authored by Judge Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Today’s case, Eizember v. Trammell, was a split decision on a criminal death penalty case. It was decided by a three-judge panel in September 2015, with Gorsuch writing for the court.

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