Retired Justice John Paul Stevens Speaks out on Death Penalty; Calls it Racist, Filled With Politics
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has finally explained his opposition to the death penalty, “saying personnel changes on the court, coupled with ‘regrettable judicial activism,’had created a system of capital punishment that is shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria,”…