Death penalty is dead wrong: It's time to outlaw capital punishment in
   Do you think that capital punishment should be outlawed?
   I have studied the death penalty for more than half my lifetime. I have
   passionately in favor. Always I have concluded the death penalty is
   For 12 years as governor, I prevented the death penalty from becoming
   disconcertingly strong preference for the death penalty in the general
   New York returned to the death penalty shortly after I was defeated by
   studies revealed that the death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent.
   existing death penalty statutes.
   capital punishment appears to threaten white drug dealers, white
   Because death penalty proponents have no other way to defend this
   Yet proponents of the death penalty continue to assume that the
   death penalty: one that juries will not be reluctant to impose; one
   expensive than the death penalty: true life imprisonment, with no
   death penalty - and to prove New York really approved of death as a
   Because the death penalty was so popular during the time I served as
   the stakes went far beyond the death penalty itself. Capital punishment
   and support for capital punishment is corrosive; that it is bad for a