Name: 【TED】David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates (Lessons from death row inmates | David R. Dow)
Uploaded: 2014-05-21T18:32:08.000Z
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and we were talking about what I was gonna talk about today.

We have an 11-year-old son; his name is Lincoln. He was sitting at the same table

He never knew his father very well, because his father left

And so, he was destined to be raised by a single mom,

and when Will was five years old she try to kill him with butcher's knife.

taken away by authorities and placed in a psychiatric hospital.

and so for the next several years Will lived with his older brother.

until he committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart.

Will bounced around from one family member to another.

until, by the time he was nine years old, he was essentially living on himself.

That morning that I was sitting with Catia and Lincoln, i looked at my son.

and I realized that when my client, Will,

he'd been living by himself for two years.

about the morality of capital punishment. I certainly think that my client

shouldn't have been executed, but what I would like to do today instead

where the most ardent death penalty supporters

Before I do that, though, I want to spend a couple of minutes telling you how a death

and then I want to tell you two lessons that I have learned over the last 20 years

from watching well more than a hundred cases unfold in this way.

You can think of a death penalty case as a story

The first chapter of every case is exactly the same,

where the murderer is convicted and sent to death row,

The second chapter consists of a complicated legal proceeding known as..

The third chapter is an even more complicated legal proceeding known as a

is one where a variety of things can happen. The lawyers might file a clemency petition,

they might initiate even more complex litigation.

When I started representing death row inmates more than twenty years ago

people on death row did not have a right to a lawyer and even the second

In fact, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they acquired a

right to a lawyer during the third chapter

So what all of these death row inmates had to do

than there were lawyers who had both the interest and the expertise to work on these cases.

lawyers drifted to cases that were already in chapter 4.

that makes sense, of course. Those are the cases in the most urgent.

those are the guys who are closest to being executed.

Some of these lawyers were successful; they managed to get new trials for their clients.

Others of them managed to extend life for their clients sometimes by...

was that there was never a serious and sustained decline in the number of

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