In a Wednesday dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the Supreme Court ’s denial of a stay of execution and certiorari for Mississippi inmate Charles Ray Crawford, writing that the Court “abandons its duty to resolve this important question.” Crawford was executed on Wednesday evening. Sotomayor’s dissent comes over a week since the Supreme Court started its term. The Court currently has a 6-3 conservative majority, and a recent Gallup poll found that over 40 percent of Americans, an all-