Ultimate Punishment (2003)
“What do we get out of it?
One group that consistently supports executions is the surviving loved ones of murder victims. As an AUSA, I’d handled only one shooting case. Clearly, I didn’t know enough about how the world looks to the victims of violence. As a result, a number of my colleagues and I urged the Commission to hear from the murdered person’s survivors, who are commonly referred to as “the victims.” In murder cases, alone among crimes, the anguish and loss of loved ones stands in for w...hat was experienced by the actual victims, who can no longer speak for themselves.
In order to sample public opinion about the capital punishment system, the Commission held open hearings in both Chicago and Springfield, the state capital. The roster of speakers was dominated by death penalty opponents, many of them associated with religious groups. (One organization whose position I hadn’t anticipated was the Illinois Medical Society, which objects to state laws allowing physicians to assist in executions, in violation of the Hippocratic oath.) Understandably, survivors were not eager to turn their hearts inside out in that kind of forum, and as a result we scheduled private sessions where they felt freer to speak.MoreLess
One group that consistently supports executions is the surviving loved ones of murder victims. As an AUSA, I’d handled only one shooting case. Clearly, I didn’t know enough about how the world looks to the victims of violence. As a result, a number of my colleagues and I urged the Commission to hear from the murdered person’s survivors, who are commonly referred to as “the victims.” In murder cases, alone among crimes, the anguish and loss of loved ones stands in for w...hat was experienced by the actual victims, who can no longer speak for themselves.
In order to sample public opinion about the capital punishment system, the Commission held open hearings in both Chicago and Springfield, the state capital. The roster of speakers was dominated by death penalty opponents, many of them associated with religious groups. (One organization whose position I hadn’t anticipated was the Illinois Medical Society, which objects to state laws allowing physicians to assist in executions, in violation of the Hippocratic oath.) Understandably, survivors were not eager to turn their hearts inside out in that kind of forum, and as a result we scheduled private sessions where they felt freer to speak.MoreLess
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