The death penalty is a topic that has received a new wave of attention, thanks to the 2000 Presidential campaigns, prominent executions (e.g., Timothy McVeigh), and the work of the Innocence Project, and that offers an opportunity to revisit Simpson???s Paradox (Moore and McCabe 1999, p.207).??? Some defenders (Pambianco 2000) of the death penalty try to rebut ???utilitarian arguments about fairne