The Constitution Project : December 2007

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December 2007 - Posts

The Death Penalty—What’s the Real Moral Question?

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 9:37 AM by Virginia Sloan

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In Herrera v. Collins , the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that the U.S. criminal justice system, “like the human beings who administer it,” will always be “fallible.” He wrote this in 1993, before the stream of DNA and other exonerations [Read More]

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