Post by thinkinkmesa on Jan 7, 2012 23:20:07 GMT -5
The Supreme Court has not banned capital punishment, as it should, but it has long held that the death penalty is unconstitutional if randomly imposed on a handful of people. An important new study based on capital cases in Connecticut provides powerful evidence that death sentences are haphazardly meted out, with virtually no connection to the heinousness of the crime.
More;
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/the-random-horror-of-the-death-penalty.html?_r=1
More;
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/the-random-horror-of-the-death-penalty.html?_r=1