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Article: A Hypnotized Witness
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 15, 1995
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The Supreme Court has published hundreds of thousands of words
over the past 20 years trying to explain itself on the subject of
capital punishment. But for the basic philosophy of the entire death
penalty enterprise, it's hard to beat Justice Potter Stewart's 1976
statement: "The penalty of death is qualitatively different from a
sentence of imprisonment, however long. Because of this qualitative
difference, there is a corresponding difference in the need for
reliability."
Courts and politicians and ordinary citizens often disagree as to
just how reliable the death penalty should be. But most people would
probably have qualms about sending a man away for life -- let alone
sending him to ...
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