Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deterrence value in executing a zealot (true believers, after all, want to die for the cause). But deterrence is always murky; there's no proof capital punishment discourages crime by anyone other than the criminals who get executed. Death-penalty proponent Glenn Lammi, chief counsel of the legal-studies division of the Washington Legal Foundation, admits that "there are no convincing studies" tracking the relationship between the death penalty and the crime rate, because isolating one variable in a sea of factors (poverty, gun availability, alcohol use, policing techniques) is beyond our abilities. In a 1995 poll, 67% of police...
...dirty little secrets of the death penalty, says Franklin Zimring, director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, is the way it "aggravates the suffering of people it's supposed to protect." Because capital punishment presents death as the target, the defendant "wins" for as long as he avoids execution. "We create a recipe for enragement and frustration," Zimring says...
...outgrowth of the case was a rapprochement, at least in public, between Betty Shabazz and Farrakhan, who helped raise funds for the family's legal expenses. An arrangement with prosecutors allowed Qubilah to avoid trial but also required her to undergo psychiatric, drug and alcohol treatment. She moved to San Antonio and began working at a radio station partly owned by former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, a family friend who was once her father's lawyer...
...message to poachers that ivory trade is back." Indeed, the message may already be out. David Barritt, African director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, reports that elephant poachers recently arrested in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, said they had been told the ivory trade would "soon be legal...
Limiting sales to Japan, as the three African nations propose, doesn't make the plan any more appealing to critics. Japan's internal controls for distinguishing legal ivory from contraband are seriously flawed, says the Fish and Wildlife Service's Jones. "Their registration system is being flagrantly not followed." That wouldn't matter as much if international inspectors could somehow determine the origin of a piece of ivory. But while scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service have been experimenting with ways to do that, they've proved unsuccessful...