Link: If Germany Had the Death Penalty: a Thought Experiment

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If Germany Had the Death Penalty: a Thought Experiment on the ACLU website, on the 25th anniversary of the McCleskey v. Kemp decision, in which the Court ruled that a defendant cannot rely upon statistical evidence of systemic racial bias to prove his death sentence unconstitutional.

Bryan Stevenson, whose idea this is, asks this of America: "Do we deserve to have a death penalty?" If Germany does not — and they emphatically believe they do not — then why do we? Think the parallels are forced? Not accurate? Really?

Chilling.