| Time Magazine - Why the Death Penalty is Dying |
Why the Death Penalty Is Slowly Dying
Little by little, governors, state legislatures, judges and juries are quietly deciding not to support capital punishment
California is having problems with its death penalty. It hasn’t executed anyone since 2006, when a federal court ruled that its method of lethal injection was improper and could cause excessive pain. The state spent five years coming up with a better method — and last month, a judge threw that one out too. One indication of just how bogged down California’s capital-punishment system is: the inmate who brought the latest lethal-injection challenge has been on death row for 24 years. It isn’t just California... Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/03/why-the-death-penalty-is-slowly-dying/#ixzz1iVnu5CMa |
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