Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181224:07:22:00
Penalty is an expression of society's moral outrage at particular crimes. >> in the 1970s, we had a four-year moratorium on the death penalty. the u.s. supreme court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. eventually in 1976, with new statutes, the u.s. supreme court said it's constitutional, and then we started seeing the death penalty back in place, death rows repopulated with new criminals like gary gilmore. >> it seems the people of utah want the death penalty, but they don't want executions. i took them literally and serious when they sentenced me to death. >> the cause was not especial...