If 75 per cent of the American people believe, as WFB puts it, "that cold-blooded murder ought to be punished by execution," and if "we have a republic that writes its own laws," then why are so few murderers executed? Is it because of "the cool resources of very bright people" determined "to render the law nugatory"? In this return visit by one of those very bright people, we get an illuminating discussion of crime and capital punishment. MT: "For every Ted Bundy you point out, where the process took so long, we find that there are three or four people who are in the seventh or eighth or ninth year, and all of a sudden a competent principal lawyer gets a hold of the case and finds that there's some reason there that this penalty ought never to have been given." ... WFB: "The lawyers have [made it]... an almost impossible epistemological question to establish basic guilt or innocence ... This makes a travesty of the law and a travesty of the democratic process."