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...times since being charged with murdering his wife. The night of the chase alone, there were roughly 987,763 such references by commentators like Barbara Walters, who found themselves with hours of airtime to fill and nothing to say. Even the U.S. Senate got in on the chorus. In chamber on Friday, the chaplain offered a prayer for O.J.: "Our hearts go out to him . . . Our nation has been traumatized by the fall of a great hero." To this moment, I have not heard Nicole Simpson referred to as much of anything at all. A victim...
They will never execute O.J. Simpson. They will never strap O.J. down in the gas chamber, seal the door, and drop the poison pellets (California's chosen method). Even putting it in these terms proves the point. It is unimaginable. We will not allow it -- "we" being the same American citizenry that supports capital punishment by a wide margin in every poll, the same citizenry to which politicians promise ever more executions for an ever greater variety of crimes...
...retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell belatedly concluded after a career of upholding death sentences, the death penalty cannot be administered fairly. Nothing illustrates that better than the thought experiment of trying to imagine O.J. Simpson in the gas chamber. It's just not going to happen, no matter what he may have done. And rightly so. After all, this is a guy we've shared beers with -- at least in our mind...
...Chamber has the pace and characters of a thriller, but little else to suggest that it was written by the glib and cheeky author of Grisham's legal entertainments. His tough first novel, the courtroom rouser A Time to Kill, is a closer match, but there Grisham played by the rules of melodrama: the hero won. Here the winner is something called process, the orderly, unemotional, bureaucratic march through the necessary steps before a convict may be poisoned by cyanide in Mississippi's gas chamber...
...human being, beginning to learn remorse. Perhaps because the posturing Governor and the other officials who press for the execution seem less human and less worthy than Adam and his allies. Or perhaps because forgiveness is said to be ennobling, and processing society's misfits in the gas chamber is profoundly debasing to the processors...