Word: slavitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slavitt and Marini tried to minimize the potential dangers of procedural error. They rested their main argument on the grounds that in some cases, allowing certain prisoners to live amounts to an even greater injustice...
...Slavitt said death penalty opponents have a misconception that it is never right for governments to take other people's lives. But he said most people would agree that in some cases, such as in times of war, governments are justified in killing others...
...Society kills people when it is justified," Slavitt said. "Society has the right to take life, the question is, when...
...Though Slavitt agreed that no system could be designed to completely eliminate mistakes, he asked whether this was reason enough to eliminate capital punishment...
...only way we as a society can value the life of a victim...is to say 'you cannot live under the same sky that we live under,'" Slavitt said...