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...Stanislaus Kostka, protesters are learning the mundane lessons of church occupation: Bring your own toilet paper. Dress warmly against the nave's meager heating. And no matter how just your cause, don't expect a decent night's sleep on St. Stan's hard wooden pews. Built by Polish immigrants in 1902 and named after a 16th century Polish Jesuit novice, the church is profusely decorated with statues, stained glass, mosaics and hand-painted biblical scenes; a depiction of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa is richly decorated with diamonds, pearls and other jewels donated by parishioners. Until last month...
...seems a better choice than life in appeals. The death penalty was originally designed to be carried out in three to six months, and housing and services for inmates were accordingly shabby, meant for a transient population. "Nobody wants to spend money on a dead man," is how Robert Nave, who helps coordinate Amnesty International's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, puts it. And yet the process has become so sclerotic that execution is now just the third most common cause of death on California's death row. Prisoners there are more likely to die of natural causes...
...fact, the death penalty is dying its own de facto death in most places around the country, due to concerns about everything from death row exonerations to the high costs of capital punishment. As Nave points out, since the start of the 1990s, the number of death sentences handed out and actual executions have declined, as have the number of death-eligible crimes being charged. Death row populations themselves have also dwindled, through commutation and attrition as much as through actual execution. New Jersey abolished the death penalty outright last fall, while other states have simply stopped exercising...
...with like-minded judges. Judges are nominated for their political views, not because of their judicial prowess, and condemned for their political leaningstoo conservative, too liberalinstead of for flaws of jurisprudence, such as stamping their personal views upon legal decisions. Although it is easy to dismiss such laments as nave, the contemporary politicization is unprecedented in recent U.S. history and unmatched by other liberal democraciesother democracies, like Canada and the United Kingdom, manage to nominate judges in a much less political manner...
...recent Quinnipiac University poll showed that although 70% of Connecticut respondents want Ross executed, in general just 37% favor the death penalty over life without parole. Being the exception may be part of Ross's motivation. "Michael relishes the idea of being the only one," says Robert Nave, who, as head of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, has visited Ross frequently. "I think he knows he'll go down in history as the first--and perhaps the last-- guy executed in modern New England...