Retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens spoke at a judicial conference on Wednesday about his changed view on the constitutionality of death penalty. Stevens said that modern pressures on the judicial system have increased the chance that a defendant could be wrongly sentenced to death.
Two years ago concerning the lethal injection case from Kentucky, Baze v. Rees, Stevens stated, “the death penalty represents the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions” to society.
In his comments on Wednesday, Stevens highlighted the use of DNA testing that has demonstrated that there is a greater risk of sentencing an innocent person to death than anyone was previously aware.
In Tennessee, two men, Paul Gregory House and Michael McCormick, spent at least 20 years each fighting the wrongful convictions that sent them to death row. Both men had DNA evidence in their cases that finally led to their release.
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In regard to the death penalty, retiring Justice Stevens’ states: “The risk of an incorrect decision has increased.”
The opposite is true.
1) We have fewer death penalty trials and fewer death penalties than ever.
2) The due process and scientific protections, with the death penalty, are greater, now, than at any other time and than with any other sanction.
3) The amount of time and resources put into pre trial, trial and appeals are greater with the death penalty than any other sanctions.
To state the obvious: The risk to innocents has decreased. The reality is that innocents are more at risk without the death penalty.
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