http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/politics/02juvenile.html?th&oref=login
Adam Liptak
"After a decade of relative quiet, the Supreme Court has in the last several years fundamentally reshaped the nation's capital justice system.
It has narrowed the class of people eligible for execution, excluding juvenile offenders yesterday as it had previously the mentally retarded. It has rebuked lower courts for sending people to their deaths without adequate safeguards. And it has paid increasing attention to the international opposition to capital punishment."
