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...with a period of intense scrutiny of capital punishment. In January the departing Republican Governor of Illinois, George Ryan, delivered the biggest blow when he commuted the sentences of all 167 people who were to be executed in his state. "Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error," Ryan declared, "error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die." He and others argue that problems like racially motivated prosecutions, coerced confessions and unreliable witnesses have made the system capricious. Such worries may help explain why many states with capital punishment--there...
...something radical--the notion that the jury system, as it's currently constructed, can't be trusted to send only the guilty to death row. Most prosecutors wouldn't embrace that philosophy, which is why it may take an Earle, not a knight, to slay the demon of error...
...error occurred while processing this directive] American slaveholders could not break an indigenous liberty delivered from God and Bush held out their example in what was a clear but largely unstated challenge to Africans now ruled by warlords and dictators. Bush has come to Africa to support the country's democracies in the hopes the spirit will catch fire across the continent. Earlier in the day, he met with leaders of eight African democracies to encourage their efforts, which the administration believes are fundamental to U.S. security interests. "The best way to fight terror is to support the habits...
...that offended nobody. At stake was the virtue of free expression, and Franklin summed up the Enlightenment position: "Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter...
...opponents felt just as passionately that America's moral foundation was crumbling completely. "The Lawrence decision is an error of biblical proportions," says Scott Lively of the Pro-Family Law Center in Sacramento, Calif. "[As a result] I predict the already enormously powerful gay political lobby in our state will consolidate its power further, and that every item on its agenda is going to get pushed through." The dissenters on the high court, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, charged that the majority grounded its decision not in the Constitution or the law but in the climate of the times...