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Criminal

Jun. 22, 2000

Death Penalty Defender Has It Wrong

Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9). Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his opponents of having no facts to support their position; it's usually the very opposite.

        Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9). Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his opponents of having no facts to support their position; it's usually the very opposite.
        Bill Thompson defends the death penalty by claiming that it was "the state of Illinois" that recently "discovered that a number of its death-row denizens may have been in...

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