Paul Cassell Quotations

Congress has now stepped in ... (with) a more nuanced approach. You don't have to satisfy every jot and jiggle in Miranda.

Justice demands that the 168 deaths be reflected in the sentence.

I think most Americans would be interested in the error rate in the sense of how many people are wrongfully convicted, and that can be derived from the study. Based on that data, the death-penalty system is more than 99 percent accurate in that more than 99 percent of the time the system identifies the proper person. There is no claim that anyone has been wrongfully executed.

It's really operated to benefit guilty criminals. It doesn't do much for innocent suspects who are swept into the system.

We're very hopeful that the court will uphold this act of Congress and agree that there is some flexibility and some room for common sense in our criminal justice system,