The real test of commitment to ending the death penalty comes when the crimes are most gruesome and the defendant the least sympathetic.
not to let anything, even simple fairness, prevent the federal government or the states from executing death row inmates.Because of the horrific nature of his crimes, the Court’s decision forces the administration to decide whether to make an exception toand put Tsarnaev to death or to continue to include him in it.
that capital defendants may introduce in the sentencing phase of their trials. Its decision reduces the constitutional protections afforded capital defendants, misinterprets federal law, and eases the way for death sentences in future cases.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing on behalf of his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court, was unmoved by that appeal to fairness.
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