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Lawyers are regularly called upon to make decisions with ethical consequences. In criminal cases, the client's freedom often depends upon the defense lawyer's decisions, and within the arena of capital punishment, the stakes are literally life-and-death. Death penalty representations are, accordingly, inherently fraught with some of the most difficult ethical choices that the lawyer can face. Among the most difficult of these choices is what to do when the death row client wishes to terminate his appeals and to volunteer for execution. The death row volunteer forces the capital attorney to make excruciating decisions about the goals of representation and the allocation of responsibility in legal decision making and to weigh the relative merits of paternalism and autonomy. ...
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