ess, equal protection and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. Are poor people guaranteed these rights that seem inherent to those defendants who can afford counsel? Common sense dictates that the best lawyers will work for the best firms, and the adequate or substandard lawyers will be given with court appointed cases. ConclusionSince Gregg v. Georgia and the removal of the moratorium, hundreds of people have been killed at the hands of popularly elected governments. In 2000, Governor Ryan of Illinois, put a moratorium on executions after evidence surfaced that might have cleared executed criminals of their crimes. In a recent national study of death penalty judgements of the past twenty-three years, the error rate was over 68%. In Furman Justice Brennan opined that standards need to be imposed to ensure the extraordinary punishment of death for extraordinary crimes. Now the nation faces another tough decision, allowing an inherently flawed system continue to put people to death, or to install a national moratorium that allows the process to be fixed....
