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An Astonishing Quote

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The Los Angeles Daily News has this story by Tony Castro on the penalty verdict in the case of Manuel Alvarez. The jury decided on life without parole for a man who killed 11 people by parking on the train tracks. He says he did not intend to kill anyone but himself. Near the end of this story is this passage: University of Colorado at Boulder sociologist Michael Radelet, one of the nation's leading criminologists and most-cited experts on the death penalty, said that often the extent or even the depravity of the crimes alone does not guarantee death sentencing convictions. "This case reminds me a great deal of the Jeffrey Daumer case in Wisconsin where so much emotional testimony was allowed during the sentencing phase but Daumer wound up (with) 15 life terms in prison and eventually died there," said Radelet...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).