Michael Rushford Quotations

Most states have effective habitual offender laws. These laws take the most likely group of potential capital murderers off the street,

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.

There are less murders, less murder victims and less death sentences because, in our view, we have been giving this problem the right medicine.

Perhaps now he will finally get the punishment that a jury unanimously agreed he deserved.

It's kind of like taking people who really love Burger King down to the slaughterhouse.

cannot be erased by children's books or misplaced celebrity.