In:
Israel Law Review, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 25, No. 3-4 ( 1991), p. 488-504
Abstract:
In a way, I suppose, everything has been said about the death penalty that can be said. Yet we continue to discuss the penalty, the legal processes involved, the actual means of execution, the crimes for which death is to be imposed, and at the cornerstone, the moral justification for society deliberately taking human lives. At the risk of appearing immodest, I claim to be peculiarly equipped to enter into this discussion because I have been on all sides of the issue — not, I hasten to explain, because of unconcern or ambivalence. First, as an idealistic young man, I debated for abolition of the death penalty. Then, as executive secretary to the Governor of California, I had the duty of actually interviewing, in prison, men — and one woman — under sentence of death and making a report to the Governor. He, in turn, had the responsibility of commuting some sentences to life and allowing others to go to their death.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0021-2237
,
2047-9336
DOI:
10.1017/S0021223700010578
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1991
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2254971-7
SSG:
2
SSG:
7,7
