Richard Dieter Quotes

What's needed is some growing evidence from the states that they want to ban executing minors. More state governors and legislatures have to weigh in. They need some momentum in the next year or two for the justices to say, now is the time to decide this.

- Richard Dieter

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We as a country have been dramatically changing our notions about clemency and the death penalty in the past half decade. - Richard Dieter

I don't think this (Morales) case is going to be the end of the death penalty or an insolvable problem. But for the short term, this is a mess. - Richard Dieter

Mental health will increasingly be reviewed. I think governors sense it's permissible to make these kinds of decisions. The death penalty is being debated everywhere. - Richard Dieter