Some of the people on death row today might not be there if… - Thomas Sowell

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Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

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Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and political commentator. He taught economics at Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellow.

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