a. Do you think Governor Ryan was justified in commuting the death sentences of all death row inmates based on investigations of only a fraction of individual cases?

b. What systematic problems do you think may have led to the incarceration and sentence of those and other innocent defendants?

c. Do you favor or oppose the use of the death penalty? Explain your asnwer. If you favor it, to what crimes should it apply?

d. If you oppose the death penalty, what do you think is the strongest argument in favor of it? If you favor the death penalty, what do you think is the strongest argument against it?

e. How do you think states should deal with the possibility that new evidence (such as conclusive DNA evidence) could prove the innocence of someone on death row?