Supreme Court Memo
Ex-Justice Criticizes Death Penalty
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: November 27, 2010
" ... In a detailed, candid and critical essay to be published this week in The New York Review of Books, [Stevens] wrote that personnel changes on the court, coupled with “regrettable judicial activism,” had created a system of capital punishment that is shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria...."
