The assumption was that if an attorney could represent any criminal case, then they could do a death penalty case.
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The Constitution doesn't demand perfection. I think the court's going to accept something less than 100 percent perfection because they're not going to be willing to say we can't have a death penalty.Richard Dieter
The states are cutting back on their use of the death penalty, while the federal government is expanding.
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We as a country have been dramatically changing our notions about clemency and the death penalty in the past half decade.
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Lethal injection is the only method being used now, for all practical purposes. The chemicals are almost the same in all the states, and they're being challenged in all the states.
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New Jersey has stopped all executions. Four stays of execution have been granted on this issue in various states. The US supreme court has taken a case related to this issue.
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This stage of the penalty phase was probably harder for the government, but that was before he took the stand and connected all the dots for the jury.
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