The Death Penalty Experiment Has Failed.

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.

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.

The States Are Not Free, Under The Guise Of Protecting Maternal Health Or Potential Life, To Intimidate Women Into Continuing Pregnancies.

I Cannot See Any Of These Death Penalty Cases Where There Hasn't Been A Violation On The Ground Of Either Poverty Or Race. If We Can Ever Get That Straightened Out, It Will Help. But, Of Course, The Real Answer To It Is To Do Away With The Death Penalty.

The Mandated Description Of Fetal Characteristics At Two-week Intervals, No Matter How Objective, Is Plainly Overinclusive. [it Is] Not Medical Information That Is Always Relevant To The Woman's Decision, And It May Serve To Confuse And Punish Her And To Heighten Her Anxiety.