CNN CNN Presents October 3, 2015 06:22:00
>> the court says the death 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 that the people of utah want the death penalty but don't want executioners. well, i took them literal and serious when they sentenced me to de...