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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 6, 2006

Hearings on Executions Show Failure of Death-Penalty Experiment

FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Kreitzberg - For a week in September, a federal courtroom in San Jose was filled with talk of death. It was not a philosophical discussion, but a legal one.


Forum Column

By Ellen Kreitzberg

     
      For a week in September, a federal courtroom in San Jose was filled with talk of death. It was not a philosophical discussion, but a legal one. There was no discussion of the morality of the death penalty, only the implementation of it. For parts of five days, Judge Jeremy Fogel held hearings on the constitutionality of lethal-injection procedures. ...

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