cannot be erased by children's books or misplaced celebrity.

It's kind of like taking people who really love Burger King down to the slaughterhouse.

Perhaps now he will finally get the punishment that a jury unanimously agreed he deserved.

There are less murders, less murder victims and less death sentences because, in our view, we have been giving this problem the right medicine.

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

Most states have effective habitual offender laws. These laws take the most likely group of potential capital murderers off the street,