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Editorial & Commentary on ALI Action

By Steve Hall

The American Law Institute's new position on capital punishment is garnering attention by writers coast-to-coast.Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch carries the editorial, "Death penalty loses legitimacy as top lawyers distance themselves."Lawyers think no problem has been invented that they can?t puzzle through, solve or argue their way out of.So, there?s reason to pause when they throw up their hands and walk away from a fight. That?s what the nation?s pre-eminent group of legal scholars and practitioners has done with capital punishment. It says that problems associated with the death penalty are ?intractable? ? that the system is so broken that it no longer is willing to lend it legitimacy.The American Law Institute has a significant stature in the legal profession, analogous to the National Academy of Sciences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).