United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens changes his mind on support of the death penalty, and according to the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty "These things about the death penalty were true before the moratorium began.  They are just as true now that the moratorium has ended."

The Court did not argue that the death penalty is a meritorious public policy. The Court did not declare that capital punishment is free of blunders, biases and bureaucracies – blunders because of the number of innocent people sentenced to death; biases because of the class and racial inequities that plague the system; and bureaucracies because of the cumbersome and time-consuming nature of death penalty appeals.

Source: ncadp.org

Now William Lynd, an alleged convicted murderer, is the first prisoner in line for execution today http://www.nowpublic.com/world/u-s-set-first-execution-end-moratorium