Death
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The
death
rates fell 47 percent.
Shivdutt's father's
death
and a want for his property led to this corruption.
But it got violent in the last two decades and includes decapitation and the
death
of two mayors.
And there's this relentless persistence of birth and
death
and an unending collection of stories in between.
Through cultural changes, our ancestors largely eliminated early
death
so that people can now live out their full lives.
And you see they have pretty similar
death
rates among young kids and old people.
But in this middle region, between 20 and 45, the
death
rates in Botswana are much, much, much higher than in Egypt.
And I still believe that that alternative of creativity as an alternative to
death
is very real and true, maybe the most true thing there is.
Because the
death
of a child is compensated by one more child.
They have a sad
death
rate of one to two children per woman.
I certainly think that my client shouldn't have been executed, but what I would like to do today instead is talk about the
death
penalty in a way I've never done before, in a way that is entirely noncontroversial.
Before I do that, though, I want to spend a couple of minutes telling you how a
death
penalty case unfolds, and then I want to tell you two lessons that I have learned over the last 20 years as a
death
penalty lawyer from watching well more than a hundred cases unfold in this way.
You can think of a
death
penalty case as a story that has four chapters.
It begins with the murder of an innocent human being, and it's followed by a trial where the murderer is convicted and sent to
death
row, and that
death
sentence is ultimately upheld by the state appellate court.
When I started representing
death
row inmates more than 20 years ago, people on
death
row did not have a right to a lawyer in either the second or the fourth chapter of this story.
So what all of these
death
row inmates had to do was rely on volunteer lawyers to handle their legal proceedings.
The problem is that there were way more guys on
death
row than there were lawyers who had both the interest and the expertise to work on these cases.
And yet, at the same time that we continue to execute about the same number of people every year, the number of people who we're sentencing to
death
on an annual basis has dropped rather steeply.
So we have this paradox, which is that the number of annual executions has remained high but the number of new
death
sentences has gone down.
It hasn't happened because of a dissolution of popular support for the
death
penalty.
Death
penalty opponents take great solace in the fact that
death
penalty support in Texas is at an all-time low.
Now, that's really good compared to the mid-1980s, when it was in excess of 80 percent, but we can't explain the decline in
death
sentences and the affinity for life without the possibility of parole by an erosion of support for the
death
penalty, because people still support the
death
penalty.
What's happened is that lawyers who represent
death
row inmates have shifted their focus to earlier and earlier chapters of the
death
penalty story.
Now, you might think that this decline in
death
sentences and the increase in the number of life sentences is a good thing or a bad thing.
All that I want to tell you is that the reason that this has happened is because
death
penalty lawyers have understood that the earlier you intervene in a case, the greater the likelihood that you're going to save your client's life.
And the reason for that is that 80 percent of the people on
death
row are people who came from the same sort of dysfunctional family that Will did.
Eighty percent of the people on
death
row are people who had exposure to the juvenile justice system.
The way we solve this problem is to make the issue of the
death
penalty bigger.
We have these four chapters of a
death
penalty story, but what happens before that story begins?
My client Will and 80 percent of the people on
death
row had five chapters in their lives that came before the four chapters of the
death
penalty story.
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