A Huge Advance Against the Death Penalty

From the New York Times:

Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.

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“Capital punishment is going to be around for a while,” Professor Clark said. “What this does is pull the plug on the whole intellectual underpinnings for it.”

A small step forward, but a huge advance against the death penalty.

Tags: capital punishment, death penalty, law