Supreme Court justices continued on Monday an ongoing open debate over the application of the death penalty as the justices filed opinions in two death penalty cases.
In the two cases, Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas believe that inmates are engaging in last-minute appeals as a dilatory tactic; whereas Justice Stephen Breyer, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh believe justices should defer to lower courts when it comes to specific facts in individual death penalty cases.
