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You call the capital-punishment system "racist, classist [and] unprincipled," but say you feel sympathy for people who support the death penalty. How can the two coexist? On a regular basis, I'm sitting face to face with murderers. When I imagine sitting face to face with somebody who might...
You describe Derrick, your first client who was executed, as "a bad guy." And yet you were clearly torn up by his death. What's it like to develop a personal connection with unsavory characters? Most of the cases I work on are tragic, but at a very deep level...
You are pretty critical of some death-penalty lawyers. Why? The cases that I write about are cases that I was handling five years ago, which means that the trials were 15 years ago. And 15 years ago, the quality of trial lawyers in Texas, and really all over the...
What's your opinion of the juries you've encountered? Juries can sentence somebody to death for the same reasons that kids in a gang will do something that they wouldn't do if they were by themselves. The group diffuses moral responsibility. I really do believe that jurors take...
That much is clear in the run-up to the bipartisan health care summit that President Obama is scheduled to host on Thursday - and in the reaction to the compromise plan he put out to start the week. For better or worse, there now seems to be room only for...