Richard Dieter
Richard Dieter
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Every lawyer worth his salt is putting in a lethal injection challenge.
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I don't think most people want it to be a big display again. People are just as happy not to see it.
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It's just an unsolvable kind of problem. We're never going to have a carefree system of painless executions.
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The court may be willing to broaden what can be considered as a civil rights claim.
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Sometimes you get the wrong person. Sometimes you are driven by prejudices.
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New Jersey has stopped all executions. Four stays of execution have been granted on this issue in various states. The US supreme court has taken a case related to this issue.
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If you are a lawyer you are filing something just like Clarence Hill as we speak.
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Florida's all alone out here. That's something that usually gets the (U.S.) Supreme Court's attention. Sometimes you want to preempt that and change your own law before the Supreme Court steps in and you have no law.
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There's still debate, but it doesn't frame the issue as strongly as someone who's saying the statute is unfair or begging for his life.
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These cases are not yet a trend of where things are going. The meatier issues are still unpredictable at this point.
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Commutation is meant for when the law hasn't caught up with society,
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There's now considerable public skepticism about whether all those being executed are really guilty and that has cast doubt on the whole system.
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This stage of the penalty phase was probably harder for the government, but that was before he took the stand and connected all the dots for the jury.
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What's needed is some growing evidence from the states that they want to ban executing minors. More state governors and legislatures have to weigh in. They need some momentum in the next year or two for the justices to say, now is the time to decide this.