Volume 34, Number 9 · May 28, 1987
The Appointment of Death
By Murray Kempton
A single-judge majority of the US Supreme Court has declared that the execution of Warren McCleskey is the due and the right if not quite the bounden duty of the state of Georgia. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.'s opinion upholding Georgia's capital punishment statute is an exemplary demonstration of judicial subtlety; and that is just what is wrong with it. You cannot fine-tune a device whose essence is its crudity.
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