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NEW VOICES: Author of Arizona's Death Penalty Law Says Time is Ripe for a Re-Examination

By Death Penalty Information Center

Rudolph J. Gerber served as a prosecutor and as a judge on Arizona's Court of Appeals for 13 years. Earlier in his career, then-state senator Sandra Day O'Connor asked Mr. Gerber to draft the statute that eventually became Arizona's death penalty law. In a recent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, he expressed his concerns about the practice of capital punishment and said that states should use the present period in which no executions are occurring as an opportunity to re-examine their commitment to the death penalty. Excerpts from his article follow:

Full post as published by Death Penalty Information Center on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).