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I am utterly, utterly serious when I say that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and seriously felt and thought-through opposition to the death penalty existing as they do cheek by jowl in my life, I consider them to be perfectly compatible and cohesive elements of a unified world view.
The LAT runs a front-page story based on juror interviews reporting that, contrary to opinions expressed yesterday by the Nichols jury forewoman, there was "a strong faction" on the jury leaning towards the death penalty.
For the record, I'm basically against the death penalty on the grounds that its application is discriminatory, mistaken executions of innocent people are inevitable, keeping people on death row for years during the appeal process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, yet limiting appeals is even worse, there's no evidence that executions have any practical deterrent effect, and emotional catharsis is not a good enough reason for the state to kill people.
James Sensenbrenner on the topic of whether or not perjury counts as a high crime or misdemeanor, namely that bribery is listed as a high crime and under federal sentencing guidelines, perjury and bribery carry the same penalty.
Optimists called the penalty stiff and predicted that it would restore some standard of decency to the sport.