Criminal
Aug. 10, 2016
Prop 62 solves the death penalty dilemma
The initiative provides voters a choice to allow murderers to have a prison death, while avoiding the protracted taxpayer expense, the absence of finality in the process, and terror inflicted by those, and on those, who must implement it. By David Senior
Glossip v. Gross is a 127-page Supreme Court brawl over the merits of the death penalty in America that was published last year. The death penalty certainly is not a moral philosophy that, according to Justice Antonin Scalia, can be "neatly distilled into a pocket-sized, vade me-cum system of metrics." So we have five opinions, drafted by nine justices, all Catholics and Jews (the liturgical compass of umpiring de...
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