Queen Elizabeth II died this week. When she took the throne, Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Harry Truman was the President of the United States. She was truly an institution. And, to draw at least a slight connection to criminal law, she was an institution that could not be prosecuted. As The Guardian explains here, British law provides near-total immunity to the monarch. King Charles now enjoys that protection. Read on for more news. South Carolina judge rules that death by firing squad and the electric chair violate the state constitution. The USA Today reports here that a “South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state’s constitution, a decision sure to be swiftly appealed as the state struggles to implement its new execution protocols.” Apparently, South Carolina recently amended its law to allow condemned inmates to choose among several methods of execution, with the electric chair as the default if an inmate declines to make a choice. The recent ruling casts the viability of the entire scheme into question, but further developments are likely. Steve Bannon indicted in New York. The New York Times has the basics here: the former adviser to President Trump has been charged by state prosecutors in New York with fraud and money laundering. The focus of the case concerns Bannon’s alleged solicitation of donations to We Build the Wall Inc., an organization that purported to be raising money to build a [...]
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