Today New York's highest court will hear a daylong argument in the second case brought by a defendant sentenced to death under a statute re-instating capital punishment in the state. An unlikely group of amici are urging the court to find the death penalty unconstitutional. Their brief distills to one argument: The death penalty is so arbitrary that it cannot meet the heightened state constitutional standards traditionally embraced by the Court of Appeals.
September 22, 2003 at 12:00 AM
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