tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18335846.post5599230409226036794..comments2024-01-07T22:12:48.097-05:00Comments on On the road (to abolition): The Supreme Court Rules on Protocolstcaskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16426653143463528003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18335846.post-90538738999315715422008-04-16T14:15:00.000-05:002008-04-16T14:15:00.000-05:00From the NY Times article covering this story, htt...From the NY Times article covering this story, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/16cnd-scotus.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp, <BR/><BR/>"Perhaps most interestingly, Justice Stevens filed an opinion concurring in the judgment of the court, but turning against capital punishment itself. Indeed, he asserted that recent decisions by state legislatures, Congress and the Supreme Court itself to preserve the death penalty “are the product of habit and inattention rather than an acceptable deliberative process that weighs the costs and risks” of the ultimate punishment."Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10126278059585750573noreply@blogger.com