ALI abandons its death penalty work

I’m reading today’s NYT piece on the ALI’s withdrawal from the legal debate surrounding the death penalty and listening to David Kitt’s cover of “Teenage Riot.” It occurs to me that, for their loud adherence to a position that (granted) seems at first like it ought to be true even in the face of ever-accumulating evidence that it is not, those who insist that capital punishment is a good and reasonable public policy are an awful lot like those who insist that Sonic Youth have ever recorded more than one really good song.