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Should the US Keep the Death Penalty? | Sam N Dan Agree to Disagree Ep. 2
Attorneys Sam Meirowitz and Dan Wasserberg take opposing sides on one of the most debated questions in American justice.
Should the United States keep the death penalty or ban it for good?
Why is it that when people admit what they did, they’re suddenly off the hook for the death penalty, but for whatever reason, we love to use the death penalty when they’re claiming that they’re innocent? I think that is flawed.
Yeah. I mean, look, there’s um nuances in the way that the system works and some of the things that you just mentioned come from doing deals and there’s benefits to the people. We always say the people when we represent the government um because that’s what we do. We represent the people, the community and the community benefits sometimes when there’s a deal. And that may be because that particular defendant has information that leads to the prosecution of others. It may be because it allows for the family to have closure by finding a body. Um, there’s a lot of reasons why the government may agree to some sort of a deal if the defendant cooperates in some manner.
