Whats next nationally in the campaign for a moratorium on the death penalty?
We have 112 innocent people — or at least let me say wrongly convicted people — who have come off death row. For every eight persons that we’ve executed, one person has had to be released from death row because we made a mistake. That’s eight hundred years combined of people’s lives. We’re beginning to be aware as a society — at first we thought we really had a perfect court system — that we’ve got some problems. There’s this tendency to do this quick fix thing — give everybody DNA [tests] and all. Those are superficial, and they’re never going to answer the real problem. There is a new moment of people questioning the death penalty, because for most people it is beyond any moral decency that innocent people would be executed along with the guilty. What about the sniper trial? Do you think that makes for greater opposition to a moratorium on the death penalty? In every society, even in countries that don’t have the death penalty, when a terrible murder has happened people are in a
