jamie: tough to prove? it s hard. first reason it s hard, you only have two people, the person is not there and the other one. so it can be very hard. jamie: quick question on jodi arias. another jury is going to be put in place to look at penalties. it was interesting, i went back to check, there is another woman on death row in arizona wildcats who had no prior criminal record, given the death penalty. it could happen to jodi arias, how difficult will it be for that jury? i think it was the same prosecutor who prosecuted the case in that case. here, two points. number 1, there are 10 aggravating factors under the statute. only one applies. so in that sense, if i was a prosecutor, i would say, maybe we ought to walk away. point 2, practically, the cost of death penalty appeals, the cost of another protracted hearing, i think they should walk away. that s just my opinion. jamie: the think the prosecutor should just take life. he is not backing down on sceek
economy? it could in three ways. if there s no action it could shake business confidence putting a pressure on hiring, shake confidence. i think the biggest threat is continuing the status quo. right now, the system is totally out of whack in favor of the super well think who don t news their tax breaks to create jobs. they have to get that balance right. i think that s the bigger threat to the economy over the long term. what do you see happening? will an agreement be reached to avoid the sequestration? i like the metaphor claire mccaskill had when they raised the debt ceiling for three months. they are like death penalty appeals. every minute, every time they have a short term fix, people are brought to the brink again. the american people are brought to the brink again. i thought it was heartening to hear from harry reid he was
all right. so what should you know for the year 2013? well, you should know that north carolina republicans who will control both legislative chambers and the governor s mansion next year have vowed to repeal the state s racial justice act which allows for death penalty appeals showing racial factors at work in death penalty cases there. you should know that by the death penalty information center suggests that the rest of the country will rely e less on the death penalty and not more. 213 people were executed but it was down to 9 this year. and 29 states now don t have the death penalty at all or haven t executed anyone in the past five years, and in the states that did not execute anybody including alabama and georgia and louisiana. the center s executive director credits two factors, fear of executing the innocent and the high cost of death penalty
13,000 gay troops were kicked out after their secrets leaked out and the taxpayers spent more than $100 million replacing them. today don t ask, don t tell is no more. repeal took effect at 12:01 a.m., nine months after signing the measure from the waining days of a lame duck congress. gays can now serve openly in every branch of service and all of those discharged service members can try to reenlist. key word, try. turns out repeal is one thing but reality is much different. more on that in our next segment moments from now. more than 22 years after former army ranger and offduty police officer was shot to death in savannah, georgia, the man convicted of killing him is once again set to die. the georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected the last ditch appeal for clemency. the state relied almost entirely on witness testimony and seven out of nine witnesses who implicated davis have since recanted or changed their stories. amnesty international is one of several group
been gunned down in a drive bishooting. does the money argument about how much it costs to sustain the appeals process, to keep death row inmates on death row does it influence at all your opinion about the death penalty? thank you for having me on, but let me say that this is nothing measure a cynical attempt by the california legislature to undermine the will of the people and to subvert the law of the land. there are very easy fixes that could streamline and push this process forward much more quickly. for instance, in california we have more than 170,000 practicing lawyers. however only 100 lawyers or less than 100 lawyers are qualified to handle death penalty appeals. this creates a backlog of a decade before they first get those appeals to the california supreme court. secondly, a state amendment could a constitutional amendment could very easily create an environment for the