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Death penalty loses legitimacy as top lawyers distance themselves

BY EDITORIAL BOARD EBoard@post-dispatch.com | Posted: Thursday, January 7th, 2010 9:03 pmLawyers 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. It strives to improve, simplify and promote certainty within broad categories of law ? such as contracts, remedies, property, trusts, torts, unfair competition, remedies and criminal law...continue to full post

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