Folks often have a dim view of lawyers, unless you don't have one when you're in trouble. And look at who most often does not have any, adequate, consistent public defenders: poor people get lousy lawyers. Then, they die. Talk about making a difference!
Successful Death Penalty appeals showed that the problem with the sentencing was not the method of execution — the issue ruled on by the Supreme Court last month — but instead bad legal help.
“All these states are gearing up to start executing people again, and nobody seems to be concerned about the systemic problems like lousy lawyers,” was the recent ACLU winning argument.
See more about this ongoing unfairness at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/us/07execute.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
And let me know what we can do about it?
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