Word: himmelstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, which masterminded the attack on capital punishment, is confident that its victory will stand despite the new efforts. L.D.F. Attorney Jack Himmelstein insists that Sprague's study still does not show any rational distinction between those who do and do not get death. As for turning to mandatory execution, Himmelstein contends that it "would be administered just as arbitrarily." Prosecutors, he points out, could still bring lesser charges, juries could return lesser convictions and Governors would choose which sentences to commute. "We used to have mandatory capital punishment," Himmelstein notes. "The reason we turned...
L.D.F.'s Himmelstein argues that fighting to restore capital punishment, though a politically easy response, is not likely to succeed and so is not a realistic allocation of crime-fighting resources. "What we're hoping," he says, "is that people will realize that trying to find the loopholes is an enormous waste of time, energy and funds...