Death
Penalty
From
this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the
machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,
I have struggled--along with a majority of this Court,
to develop procedural and substantive rules that would
lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the
death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle
the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness
has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated,
I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply
to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.
It is virtually self evident to me now that no combination
of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever
can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional
deficiencies.
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