NewYorkUniversity
LawReview
Issue

Volume 89, Number 3

June 2014

Our Broken Death Penalty

The Honorable William A. Fletcher

Madison Lecture

This lecture is titled Our Broken Death Penalty. But the title is misleading, for it suggests that our death penalty might, at some earlier time, have been something other than broken. It has always been broken. And, as you will hear tonight, it cannot be repaired.