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"Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases"

"Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases": Today's edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, "They are an ignominious bunch: two Bronx heroin dealers who murdered an informant, a father and son who killed three people in a drug deal, a Brooklyn gangster hired in the killing of a husband for the victim's wife. These five men are linked not only by the nature of their crimes but by the fact that federal juries in New York decided that they should not be put to death. In the 20 years since the federal death penalty statute was revived, no federal juries have been more reluctant to sentence federal defendants to death than those in New York."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).