Michael Rushford Quotes
Most states have effective habitual offender laws. These laws take the most likely group of potential capital murderers off the street. 
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You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.
- Michael Rushford
[But Rushford is quick to add that methods of execution such as the firing squad and the gallows are not only safe, they're deserved punishments.] If done properly, everything that they've done has been humane... Nobody dies as easily as convicted murders in this country. It's a much quicker, more merciful death than their victims suffered.
- Michael Rushford