Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.
...the institute voted in October to disavow the structure it had created "in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment."
...What the institute was saying is that the capital justice system in the United States is irretrievably broken.
Group That Shaped Death Penalty Gives Up on Its Own Work
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