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And a couple of weeks later when Zacarias Moussaoui was indicted on six counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism, and the U.S. government called for a death penalty for him, if convicted, my husband and I spoke out in opposition to that, publicly.
And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.
It's interesting, this question of the death penalty.
Death penalty in America is defined by error.
I was giving some lectures in Germany about the death penalty.
He said, "We don't have the death penalty in Germany.
And of course, we can never have the death penalty in Germany."
We're trying to do something about the death penalty.
Death penalty in the United States, not so much in Norway.
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 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.
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.
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.
What we're doing in the death penalty system is we're paying later.
If we make the picture bigger and devote our attention to the earlier chapters, then we're never going to write the first sentence that begins the death penalty story.
The death penalty was a sanction for a long list of non-violent crimes: criticizing the king, stealing a loaf of bread.
If the officer is honest, you get a huge penalty of being arrested for bribery.
The kidnapping case was a death penalty case.
Reading the posts from 1917, you learn that Russia was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty, or one of the first ones to grant women voting rights.
An exception to this, however, is penalty shootouts.
A recent study looking at penalty shootouts in football showed that players who represent countries with a very bad record in penalty shootouts, like, for example, England, tend to be quicker to take their shots than countries with a better record, and presumably as a result, they're more likely to miss.
Are you unequivocally and without question antiwar, pro-choice, anti-death penalty, pro-gun regulation, proponent of open borders and pro-union?
Or, are you absolutely and uncompromisingly pro-war, pro-life, pro-death penalty, a believer that the Second Amendment is absolute, anti-immigrant and pro-business?
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