Daily Journal, February 5, 2009 by Rebecca Beyer
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Zimring said when the federal death penalty was reinstated it was with the goal of “using federal law to contradict state policy”—in other words, to have the punishment as an option in states where the death penalty doesn’t exist. What happened in reality, he said, was “exactly the opposite….” “What you had was tremendous redundancy,” he said. “The places that had high levels of death verdicts and executions were the places that had the concentrations in federal death penalty verdicts.”