Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110923:04:38:00
He had bad legal representation in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there's no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it's not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. and it is a job...