Word: schwarzschild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have as many white friends as black, but my white friends and I don't talk about race, because when we do, we get testy," says Franklin Williams, a black New York City foundation executive. Henry Schwarzschild, a white long active in national civil rights causes, remains equally pessimistic: "My sense is that on both sides of the racial divide, society has given up on this problem...
...them to their death or to prison for life." Prison is a far more manageable weapon than death, and the U.S. is not at all hesitant to put criminals behind bars: the population there has doubled since 1970, to 400,000. "One trouble with the death penalty," says Henry Schwarzschild, an A.C.L.U. official, "is that it makes 25 years seem like a ight sentence...
...after a year of comfortable confinement, taken outside the city and stoned to death. In the view of some death-penalty abolitionists, contemporary executions are not really so different. Each execution is mere "spectacle," according to the A.C.L.U.'s Schwarzschild, "a dramatic, violent homicide under law." Says he: "A society that believes that the killing of a human being is a solution to any problem is deeply uncivilized." Executing murderers does not demonstrate resolute regard for the sanctity of victims' lives. "The marginally demented guy," says Schwarzschild, sees an execution as a prescription, not a threat. "He thinks...