A Legal Quest Against the Death Penalty
A lengthy article devoted to the work of Judge Jed S. Rakoff from The New York Times.
Over the days and nights of 2001 and 2002, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan was engaged in what amounted to a bit of intensely personal, somewhat stealthy jurisprudence - seeking to determine the constitutionality of the death penalty on new grounds.
"You can't design a system that's perfect," he said, "and due process is, by definition, what is reasonably due, not what is perfect."
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