Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv
We need to think about that. Im not sure theres any nearterm solutions to this, but it was another one of those dark, dark and somewhat implicit implications for this terrible tragedy. Thank you. Thanks. I actually want to pick up on one thing you said and then come to a couple of you as well around some of the turning points. I agree, that speech that president clinton made was quite extraordinary and im not sure everybody it got the attention it needed given how extraordinary it was. But the other thing i wanted to say is that the ias itself in the way the ias responded was also pretty phenomenal because there had been a few calls for should we go on with the conference and the ias came out immediately and said we are going on that, we have to go on. And that really i think just gave a lot of energy to people that people needed and the way you adjusted to the Opening Ceremony to address it was very admirable. So thank you for that. So theres a lot to pick up on, and im just going to
Government, as wellintentioned as they are, and i do believe that they are wellintentioned, i just simply do not think that they have the capacity. I think that there needs to be something to augment their capacity. I think that there needs to be some kind of coordination unit. Ive heard here today that the World Health Organization has the lead. Maybe, maybe not. I think something with a bit more of an operational edge to it is called for. That may be some kind of a i do not know what that could be, but more is needed. I think that if we leave the situation up to the ministries of health when you have a unique situation where you have three poor countries that have a communicable, infectious, and lethal disease, they clearly do not have the capacity to contain it. And is the world willing to allow the Public Health of the world to be in their hands while they try to contain the disease . That is the essential question. Finally, dr. Glover, you had worked on the outbreak of ebola, what