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Who Is To Say That 5 Men 10 Years Ago Were Right Whereas 5 Men Looking The Other Direction Today Are Wrong.

From This Day Forward, I No Longer Shall Tinker With The Machinery Of Death. For More Than 20 Years I Have Endeavored - Indeed, I Have Struggled - Along With A Majority Of This Court, To Develop Procedural And Substantive Rules That Would Lend More Than The Mere Appearance Of Fairness To The Death Penalty Endeavor. Rather Than Continue To Coddle The Court's Delusion That The Desired Level Of Fairness Has Been Achieved And The Need For Regulation Eviscerated, I Feel Morally And Intellectually Obligated To Concede That The Death Penalty Experiment Has Failed.

I Hope You Will Be Yourself, Human, Even A Little Sentimental, Possessed Of A Sense Of Humor And A Sense Of Humility. . . . There Are Arrogant People In This World And, What Is Worse, Arrogant Judges.

We Need Not Resolve The Difficult Question Of When Life Begins. When Those Trained In The Respective Disciplines Of Medicine, Philosophy, And Theology Are Unable To Arrive At Any Consensus, The Judiciary, At This Point In The Development Of Man's Knowledge, Is Not In A Position To Speculate As To The Answer.

If There Is Any Truth To The Old Proverb That "one Who Is His Own Lawyer Has A Fool For A Client," The Court Now Bestows A Constitutional Right On One To Make A Fool Of Himself.