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Justice Stevens on Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

"Stevens: Risk of wrongful sentences higher," is the title of Joan Biskupic's report in USA Today.Modern pressures on the judicial system have raised the chance a defendant could be wrongly sentenced to death, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Wednesday, explaining his changed view on the constitutionality of capital punishment."The risk of an incorrect decision has increased," he told an audience of hundreds of lawyers and judges at a judicial conference here, responding to a question about his 2008 assertion that the death penalty should be abolished. He said that because of advances in DNA testing, which have led to the freeing of some innocent convicts, "we're more aware of the risk than we might have been before...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).