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American Law Institute Gives Up Death Penalty Work Disavowing Framework for Cases It Created 50 Years Ago

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sidebar Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work in Frustration By ADAM LIPTAK- NY Times Published: January 4, 2010 WASHINGTON 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number of death sentences continued to fall, Ohio switched to a single chemical for lethal injections and New Mexico repealed its death penalty entirely.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. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley...continue to full post

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