CSPAN2 Capital News Today April 30, 2013
important supreme court decision we don't go into a great deal of detail but if there is an alternative sentence of life imprisonment no parole juries must be advised of that. if not you have to do it all over again. so if juries know they have the choice death or life without parole, the personal never see the light of day again we find they're more inclined to vote for life in prison. talk about arbitrary and capricious there are 15,000 homicides per year in the u.s.. that iso dn and several hundred deaths sentences but over the last three or four years the average 40 or 50 executi...