| Birmingham News - Lawyer Richard Jaffe questions the death penalty |
Published: Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 8:30 AM Updated: Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 1:45 PM
In his more than three decades as a lawyer, Richard Jaffe has
defended hundreds of people charged with ending the lives of others --
including more than 60 charged with capital murder.
Some were acquitted. Others were not. But Jaffe believes not one of his clients, or those of any other lawyer, should ever have to face the ultimate penalty for their crimes -- death. Through a retelling of some of the high-profile and more routine cases he has handled in his new book -- "Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned" -- Jaffe poses what he says are troubling questions about the use of the death penalty in Alabama and elsewhere. |
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