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	There is a new post on Opinio Juris.  You can read it at:

http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1196797226.shtml

It begins:

	As I blogged about here, Adam Liptak has a terrific
	occasional series ("American Exception") in the
	NYTimes examining common features of the US
	criminal justice system that are quite at odds with
	the approaches of other democracies. Liptak's piece
	today examines the felony murder rule — a
	rule we adopted from the English common law, but
	which has in recent years been abolished in most
	other common law jurisdictions. Again, the focus of
	exceptionalism here — as with life sentences
	for juvenille offenders and the death penalty
	— is not so much that the US criminalizes
	behavior that...