"I am more optimistic though, that this court……" — Harry A. Blackmun
"I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive."
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Harry A. Blackmun
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21 Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun
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The death penalty experiment has failed.
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