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...many victims' families. Martin Soto-Fong was 17 in 1992 when he and two accomplices robbed the El Grande Market in Tucson, Ariz., for $300 and shot three workers. Richard Gee, who lost a brother and an uncle that day, is not happy to see the murderer exit death row. "We had him at the gates of hell," he says, "and he got kicked back." --With reporting by Eric Ferkenhoff/ Chicago, Wendy Grossman/Houston and Stacy J. Willis/Las Vegas
...allowing the death sentence for juvenile criminals; in a 5-4 decision; in Washington, D.C. The court stated that executing juveniles violates "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of an evolving society." As a result of the ruling, the death sentences of 72 convicts on death row in 12 states were immediately erased...
When she sank her final free throw with 1:05 remaining in the game, the Harvard bench erupted in a row of delightful peals and waving, white towels...
...fortunate, by this decision, that the U.S. has taken 72 young offenders off the chopping block and that no one will be placed on death row for his or her offenses as a minor (so long as the Supreme Court does not revisit this decision). This shows that the U.S., against the odds, is still tiptoeing down the road towards moral progress—the road that the civilized world has been traveling for centuries. But this is not enough. The state-sponsored murder of the irresponsible is execrable, but the state-sponsored murder of calculating adults isn?...
...real conclusion; no one will ever know how many innocent people have been executed in the U.S. And for those with a penchant for cost-benefit analysis, the death penalty is incredibly expensive. Studies have shown time and again that the difference between the costs of a death row case and the cost of life in prison are enormous...