Florida's all alone out here. That's something that usually gets the (U. S.) Supreme Court's attention. Sometimes you want to preempt that and change your own law before the Supreme Court steps in and you have no law.
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This seems to be cobbled together in short notice and without significant review. It's not absolutely essential that each person be executed on time, if there's this kind of uncertainty. I find it somewhat amazing that they could have a judge change the procedure and then change it again all while this person's not knowing even how he's going to be executed.Richard Dieter
The assumption was that if an attorney could represent any criminal case, then they could do a death penalty case.
Richard Dieter
California will have to decide, is this a risky process Does it cause pain Are there alternatives I don't see any chance of this case ending the death penalty. But it does raise certain life issues that could affect the larger death-penalty debate.
Richard Dieter
You can plead guilty, but you can't plead death. You can request it.
Richard Dieter
The final argument (of death penalty advocates) is that no innocent person has been executed.
Richard Dieter
The thing that stands out to me is the breadth of the decline, ... I think if it were just one year or one of those numbers, it would be less consequential. What we're witnessing is a pullback from the death penalty across the country.
Richard Dieter
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