Re: the lawyers give up on the death penalty
GLOBALIST
people is wrong...is nutzo.
M'Balz Es-Hari
> Giving yourself permission to kill other people to show that killing
> people is wrong...is nutzo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34705825/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
So you think pieces of shit like this deserve to live?
Werner
> Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work
>
> By ADAM LIPTAK
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> 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.
>
....
>
> "Law students who take first-year criminal law from 2010 on," he
> said, "will learn that this same group of smart lawyers and
> judges -- the ones whose work they read every day -- has said
> that the death penalty in the United States is a moral and
> practical failure."
>
>
Should we not wonder how much this death penalty finding applies to
other parts of the court system? Most people assume, incorrectly I
think, the justice system is inherently just.
Matthew Scott
Are we, as a society, clear on what the death penalty's purpose is? I'd love to know what criteria the American Law Institute used to evaluate its success or failure. Is the death penalty retribution for commission of an act unacceptable to society or is it designed to act as a deterrent to committing such an act? Don't see how it can be said to have failed if it's retribution. Only if it's defined as a deterrent could it be said to have morally and practically failed. The hard line position is that the penalty is retribution. Remember when prisons were called prisons and not "correctional institutions"?