A federal judge in Manhattan ruled
on Monday that the current federal death penalty law is unconstitutional,
citing the growing number of exoneration's of death row intimates through
DNA and other evidence.
The judge, Jed S Rakoff of US district
court, said the exoneration's demonstrated that an "undue risk
of executing innocent people" exist. He called that a violation
of the constitutional right to due process, and said the death penalty
was therefore "tantamount to foreseeable, state-sponsored murder
of innocent human beings."
