Capital Punishment

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…administration of death can never be achieved without compromising an equally essential component of fundamental fairness -- individualized sentencing. . . On their face, these goals of individual fairness, reasonable consistency, and absence of error appear to be attainable. . . [y]et, in the death penalty area, this Court, has engaged in a futile effort to balance these constitutional demands. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."(http://www.otse.org/, 1999, 2001.) *