Vice President, National District Attorneys' Association
District Attorney for Clatsop County, Oregon and Vice President of the National District Attorneys' Association; co-author of Debating the Death Penalty
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Joshua Marquis
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FROM Joshua Marquis
To the Point
Time for a Change in the Death Penalty? Because death is the ultimate penalty—the one that cannot be revoked--the administration of capital punishment is always under review. The US Supreme Court has created a de facto moratorium for the next few months in most states by taking up the constitutionality of states' standards of lethal injection.
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