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Delma Banks Jr. was as good as dead on March 12, 2002, when the Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution with only a few minutes to spare. That was his 15th scheduled execution date. A black man convicted of murder in 1980 by an all-white jury, Banks appealed...
In fairness to proponents of death sentences, these are usually carried out by lethal injection, perhaps the most physically humane method of killing ever devised (they even rub alcohol onto your skin before inserting the needle). Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Banks’s...
What has made the case against capital punishment so difficult to argue, however, is the policy’s utter insignificance in practical terms. As of last Tuesday’s Texas execution of Juan Chavez, only 847 convicted murderers have been put to death since the 10-year moratorium...
The Bottom Line We may not as a nation have a character which enjoys the execution of a contract as much as we do winning the next one. ROBERT WALMSLEY, outgoing U.K. chief of defense procurement, on problems at BAE Systems
But Ryan has also sparked controversy by commuting the sentences of 164 death row inmates, leaving them in jail but protecting them from execution. When he commuted the sentences, Ryan had already made headlines by declaring a moratorium on the death penalty after 13 residents of Illinois’s...