Craig Washington: “So yours is the moderate, watered down habeas corpus reform that gets us beyond where we are now with all the delays?”

It is a fact that over 80 percent of the death row appeals, and specifically the reversals, are based upon lawyer error, that is, people had incompetent lawyers to try death penalty cases to begin with; right?

The ones that are going to sell their soul are not going to be stopped by this bill.

I disagree with my distinguished dean that we should not debate the substance, because I do not think that anybody should be allowed to come to these microphones with the American people watching and have you make statements like you made…

This is not the Washington-Edwards amendment. My amendment would have done a lot more, a lot more forcefully and a lot more, but the committee decided on your version rather than mine, which is quintessentially, in my judgment, a much…