The court may be willing to broaden what can be considered as a civil rights claim.

You want to put on a case that enables the jury to see the humanity of this person.

I don't think most people want it to be a big display again. People are just as happy not to see it.

If you find an innocent man who has been executed, that's a final nail through that.

If you are a lawyer you are filing something just like Clarence Hill as we speak.

It's just an unsolvable kind of problem. We're never going to have a carefree system of painless executions.

This is a proper action for the governor to take. It's not right to shy away from a difficult question or even shy away from reopening cases when there is a chance that something new might be learned.

Commutation is meant for when the law hasn't caught up with society,

Sometimes you get the wrong person. Sometimes you are driven by prejudices.

These cases are not yet a trend of where things are going. The meatier issues are still unpredictable at this point.