Franklin Zimring Notes Arbitrariness of Death Penalty Rulings

-The Salt Lake Tribune, June 11, 2010 by Christopher Smart
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49749347-73/death-penalty-gardner-execution.html.csp?page=1

“The law is not very good at specifying who should live and who should die,” argues Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at University of California at Berkeley.

-Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2010 by Maria L. La Ganga
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fort-bragg-killing-20100612,0,2242136,full.story

Franklin Zimring, a law professor at UC Berkeley, said that deciding on an appropriate sentence will be “a nasty balancing act” for Brown. “It’s not like there’s a long list of these,” Zimring said. “These are head-on collisions between the severity of the criminal harm and the enormity of the long-term mitigating circumstances.”