Word: bruck
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...aging perhaps makes it easier to flip the switch or pull the lever. But it also makes it harder to connect the criminal to the crime. "By the time the state gets around to executing these people, the kid who committed the crime no longer exists," says lawyer David Bruck, who is handling the appeal of Joseph Hudgins, 22, who was convicted of murder at age 17 in South Carolina and sentenced to death. "It is almost as if in some nightmarish procedure the state has arbitrarily substituted one person for another prior to the execution...
...faith in deterrence is dying (and faith in rehabilitation is virtually dead), belief in retribution is alive and well. Death-penalty foe David Bruck calls retribution "the only moral reason for punishment. It's our way of expressing our common beliefs in what's right and wrong." The question is what form retribution should take. At its most elemental level, retribution blurs with revenge. "Some animals deserve to be put off the face of the earth," explains Richard Brill, a retired government cartographer in Denver. But there's a distinction to be made between revenge--a hot, deeply personal desire...
...usual in this debate, the two sides, both convinced of their essential rightness, talk past and around each other. Abolitionists like Bruck argue that life without parole is in some ways more retributive than death, not only because the convict has to accept his punishment for the rest of his days but because "it makes us more morally energetic about punishment. We wake up each morning to punish some more." And the death sentence, abolitionists believe, implies that certain individuals have lost the right to call themselves human, an idea that runs counter to the Founding Fathers' vision of inalienable...
...held numerous hearings," Bruck said. "There was little testimony, and it was over whelmingly favorable...
...response to the complaints, Bruck said, the advisory board recommended that the park contain only several trees and ground cover. There would be no seating within the site, she said...