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Adam Liptak on the ALI Capital Punishment Resolution

By Steve Hall

Liptak's Tuesday Sidebar column has been posted at the New York Times website.  It's titled, "Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work in Frustration."  It's a must-read.Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it. There were other important death penalty developments last year: the number of death sentences continued to fall, Ohio switched to a single chemical for lethal injections and New Mexico repealed its death penalty entirely. But not one of them was as significant as the institute?s move, which represents a tectonic shift in legal theory. ?The A.L.I. is important on a lot of topics,? said Franklin E...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).