Speaker Hints Death Penalty May Be Passé
More and more New Yorker's are reconsidering the death penalty, for all different reasons. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is one of them:
ONE of the state's most powerful political figures, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, said yesterday that after a legislative lifetime of supporting capital punishment, he was not so sure the state needed a death penalty law anymore, given its record since its reinstatement in New York nearly 10 years ago.
Today, with crime down, a nationwide debate about the effectiveness of the death penalty and the fairness of its application, and instances of DNA evidence clearing inmates, the climate has clearly moderated.
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