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13 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2018-2019)

handle is hein.journals/tjlpp13 and id is 1 raw text is: THE DEATH PENALTY: A DIALOGUE ON MORALITY AND THE LAW: REMARKS BY JEANNE BISHOP BY JEANNE BISHOP1 Thank you so much, Mark.2 Thank you, Bridget Welter, for bringing me here and the Journal of Law and Public Policy. I love coming to St. Thomas. Before I came here this time, I looked up on your website what you say your mission is, and that is that you are dedicated to integrating faith and reason in the search for truth through a focus on morality and social justice.3 I get to teach, work and speak at a lot of different law schools, but I think St. Thomas is just unsurpassed in living up to its mission and living up to the truth of those words - and this is part of it. I am incredibly grateful that you are turning that search for truth to this topic of the death penalty, because it is important. The majority of U.S. states still have a death penalty, and every jurisdiction has a federal death penalty, even in the states that do not have a death penalty under state law, like Massachusetts.4 Prosecutors still sought the death penalty for the marathon bomber.s So, it exists in a sense in every state, including this one. I have been working on this issue for a long time, about since I was your age and in school, and this is before the tragedy in my family. I opposed the death penalty for all these what I call rational reasons: that it is more expensive than housing someone for life;' that it risks killing an innocent person; that it ' Jeanne Bishop, a public defender from Cook County, provided remarks after her sister's murderer received the death penalty. These remarks were given at the Fall 2018 symposium THE DEATH PENALTY: A Dialogue on Morality and The Law at the St. Thomas Sch. of Law (Nov. 9, 2018). 2 Professor Mark Osler is a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Professor Osler served as moderator of the University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy's fall 2018 symposium, THE DEATH PENALTY: A Dialogue on Morality and the Law. 3 St. Thomas School of Law Mission Statement, https://www.stthomas.edu/law/about/ (last visited Jan. 26, 2019). 4 Bradley Campbell, Massachusetts Isn 't Ok With The Death Penalty, But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Jurors Had To Be, PRI's The World (May 15, 2015), https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-05/massachusetts-isnt-ok-death-penalty-dzhokha r- tsarnaevs-jurors-have-be. 5 Id. 6 What Costs More the Death Penalty or Life in Prison? NBC (Sep. 21, 2011), https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/wha t-costs-more-the-death-penalty-or-life-in-prison/article2dl8f8al-dlce-5382-8bd6- 15471alb4194.html.

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