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    What to read in defense of the death penalty?

    Of course, there are several books for that. But many people don’t have the time to read them, or don’t want to pay for them, or both.

    But there is something which is short, incisive, free and online that everyone can read: judicial opinions.

    One can read:

    – Justice Antonin Scalia concurring opinions in:

    – Justice Clarence Thomas concurring opinions in:

    Knight v. Florida (1999): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-9741.ZA.html (on the claim that lengthy delays between death sentence and execution allow the convict to be not executed at all)

    Glossip v. Gross (2015): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremec...-7955_CONCUR_5

    – The Supreme Court of Japan 1983 ruling in the Nagayama case, which is currently applied by Japanese courts when the prosecution pursues the death penalty.

    Their official website has an English translation:

    https://www.courts.go.jp/app/hanrei_en/detail?id=74
    Last edited by Steven AB; 09-27-2022 at 05:50 PM.
    "If ever there were a case for a referendum, this is one on which the people should be allowed to express their own views and not irresponsible votes in the House of Commons." — Winston Churchill, on the death penalty

    The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal

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