By Placing Discretion In The Hands Of

From This Day Forward, I No Longer Shall Tinker With The Machinery Of Death.

A Government Cannot Be Premised On The Belief That All Persons Are Created Equal When It Asserts That God Prefers Some

Of One Thing, However, I Am Certain. Just As An Execution Without Adequate Safeguards Is Unacceptable, So Too Is An Execution When The Condemned Prisoner Can Prove That He Is Innocent. The Execution Of A Person Who Can Show That He Is Innocent Comes Perilously Close To Simple Murder.

In Order To Get Beyond Racism, We Must First Take Account Of Race. There Is No Other Way. And In Order To Treat Some Persons Equally, We Must Treat Them Differently.

From This Day Forward, I No Longer Shall Tinker With The Machinery Of Death. ... I Fell Morally And Intellectually Obligated Simply To Concede That The Death Penalty Experiment Has Failed.