1. Arthur Miller
The nation's death-row population now numbers more than 3, 335 inmates. ... (Mello, "Against the Death Penalty" 31) Another major augment against the death penalty is that it violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. ... Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-I11 said, "death-penalty Darwinism? Death-penalty survival of the fittest?" ... Closer analysis of each state reveals that during the last two decades, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than states without the death penalty. ...
Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... This is most likely due to the fact that American society is "[inching] ever closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."13 T...