"Quantitatively, there are more reasons to abolish the death penalty than those for retention, and they are more humane, while the reasons for retentionist death sentences sound cold and disgusting."

"No one likes to deprive their own kind of life."

"I don't like it either." Brooklyn said.

"The debate over whether the death penalty should be abolished will probably continue until the day of the end of humanity, and there will be no result. I do not want to tell you here whether it is right or wrong to abolish the death penalty, because there is never a right or wrong in the theoretical controversy of law, which stems from the first point I said, that law is a fluid discipline and there is no absolute truth. ”

"Mr. Brooklyn." The girl from before suddenly asked

"Do you support the abolition of the death penalty?" Brooklyn shook her head

"I support the retention of the death penalty."

"Actually, your point of contention is not the death penalty itself, but the impact of the death penalty."

"What I can tell you now is that the death penalty has the intimidating effect of a special punishment." As he spoke, Brooklyn pulled up several papers with statistics on crime rates and penalties and the impact of criminal behavior.

"The statistics speak for themselves."

These supporting arguments for the abolition of the death penalty are concerns about the effects attached to the death penalty, which can be remedied by other means. For example, we are now more and more stringent in the requirements for the review of the death penalty, in order to avoid irreparable wrongs caused by judicial trials. For example, the means of death punishment have changed from hanging to electrocution, and now vigorously promoted by drug injection, which is to avoid the suffering of prisoners and their families to the greatest extent. ”

"If I want to say that I can refute the latter points of abolition of the death penalty one by one, but until I have really experienced it, what I say is only theoretical, and it is not convincing, and I hope that you can figure it out for yourself."

"But I don't expect all of you to turn out to be one-sidedly pro-retention of the death penalty. Because any discipline will continue to evolve and improve only if there is controversy. Once there is only one voice in a discipline, the discipline is not far from extinction. After discussing the death penalty, Brooklyn raised the question of the influence of public opinion on the judiciary, and then the influence of personal emotions on judicial fairness.

In addition, Brooklyn also proposed the amendment law to the federal constitution, briefly introducing the background of the amendment law and the considerations behind it.

Brooklyn even came up with a few real-world precedents for the students to analyze one by one. Overall, the content of the open class is very substantial and informative.

In particular, the real precedents at the end were so popular with the students that they quickly forgot about the abolition of the death penalty.

John Manning was a little tired, but he managed to finish the whole class. To be sure, the Brooklyn public class schedule was not spectacular, and it could even be said to be very ordinary.

In particular, Brooklyn's discussion of the abolition of the death penalty is even more anticlimactic, giving the impression that it is a failed teaching session.

Brooklyn seems to have been hastily terminated because the students didn't change sides after thinking about it. It looks sloppy and even a little embarrassing.

John Manning, on the other hand, doesn't think it's a teaching accident. With his knowledge of Brooklyn, how could a person who could fight back in a racist incident, analyze the situation with determination, and grab profits, make such a mistake?

However, the lack of adequate rest at noon made John Manning's head feel groggy and a little chaotic, and he couldn't figure out for a moment the reason for Brooklyn's arrangement.

After the public class, Brooklyn and John Manning returned to the office. The assistant brought a small cake and ate it with tea, and with the addition of sugar, John Manning's brain cleared up a lot.

"You want to discuss the abolition of the death penalty at the meeting?" John Manning asked. Brooklyn shook his head and said what he thought.

"I just want to see the quality of the students who come to the class." John Manning looked over with some curiosity.

Brooklyn explained

"Actually, I prepared a lot for this open class, and I started to write the syllabus when I was in the hospital. I have high expectations for this open class. ”

"The result?" John Manning asked. Brooklyn shook her head

"The result...... Not so good. ”

"If they can really let go of prejudices and personal emotions and think rationally, the teaching content will actually be arranged differently."

"What arrangement?"

"I will analyze the recent major events in the judicial field, so that they can realize the gap between the more real world and the campus world, and prepare their minds."

"Unfortunately, they didn't live up to my expectations."

"In fact, I think that after the girl asked me if I was in favor of abolishing the death penalty, and I gave an answer, most of the students were ready to get up and leave. They were filled with disgust with me from the moment they heard that I was asked in favor of the death penalty, and they no longer cared what I said later. In their minds, it is wrong for me to support the retention of the death penalty, so every word, every punctuation, every breath I say later is wrong and should not be. ”

"Because I support the retention of the death penalty, I have a left-wing view with them, and then I have completely rejected everything I have." Brooklyn shook his head with a look of contempt

"They're right, Professor Manning, if we don't change, we're really going to be finished."

"Before I came, I did psychological construction on this, and even arranged pre-questions for this purpose, the purpose is to let them form thinking inertia and learn to look at problems rationally, but they didn't learn anything."

"I repeated the word rationality in class to tell them that they should learn to judge rationally, not just by their own likes and dislikes. There is no conflict between hating a person and opposing a person's views and liking the person's political views and supporting his political position. ”

"As highly educated people, they should distinguish between rationality and emotion, and learn to use the left brain to make decisions, rather than letting the right brain do the same. Rely on whether it is your own group to distinguish between support and non-support. ”

"As an ordinary citizen, they may be qualified, but as a member of the judiciary, they have not learned even the most basic rational thinking, Professor Manning, I don't think they can achieve anything."

"It reminds me of that wonderful debate you had with Wood that burst into my office a few years ago." John Manning was silent for a moment, and instead of commenting on Brooklyn's remarks, he brought up another matter.

That's what happened when I was a student in Brooklyn. Originally, Brooklyn was just perfunctory to Wood Ward, but Wood Ward keenly discerned his intentions from Brooklyn's echo voice, and the two began a semester-long debate about the curriculum taught at the school.

The controversy even had a serious impact on Brooklyn's study of recipes, and the two eventually ran to John Manning for an afternoon of 'debate'.

"Wood...... Wood was right. Brooklyn was silent for a moment

"If they are not exposed to reality, they will live in illusory dreams for the rest of their lives."

"Harvard Law School has produced a bunch of scrap wood." Brooklyn smiled wryly. John Manning sighed

"Are you interested in opening a course at school?" Brooklyn shook her head. His refusal disappointed John Manning, who nodded his head and said no more.

In the evening, head back to your hotel. Ray was checking around like a spy, and Brooklyn sat on the couch, recalling what had happened during the day.

He chewed carefully on every word and expression of John Manning, and found that John Manning was much more 'sincere' with himself.

He didn't care about his persecution in the racist incident, he didn't care about his repeated procrastination, he didn't care about his outspoken pointing out of Harvard's shortcomings, and he didn't care about his outright refusal.

In the face of the current situation at Harvard Law School, this big man in the judicial world seems to be a little weak.

In the face of Brooklyn, he also looked a little 'weak'. Brooklyn couldn't help but think of the scene in the hallway before the open class.

John Manning is old...... The thought suddenly came to my mind, as if it had taken root, firmly rooted in Brooklyn's mind, and lingered.

This thought made Brooklyn frightened. John Manning is to Harvard like a needle to the sea, and with him, the Harvard School is a strong whole, not afraid of any challenge.

But if John Manning is really old and gone, will the Harvard faction still be as united as it is now?

Will the Harvard school still be able to compete with Yale and hold a firm foothold? I'm afraid it will collapse immediately, and it will be eaten up by Yale, Stanford, Virginia, etc., and there will be no scum left.

No one but John Manning could convince the crowd! Thinking of this, Brooklyn couldn't sit still.

He felt a rather strong sense of urgency. He had to prove his conjecture right or wrong as soon as possible. If John Manning had not grown old, nothing would have changed, and the Harvardists would still be an important part of the federal justice system, and no one could ignore the Harvard voice.

He can grow calmly, develop slowly, and grow himself step by step. But if John Manning is really old, the Harvard faction will be in trouble, and he needs to know how much time he has left for himself.

While Brooklyn was panicking, there was a little strangeness in his heart. If John Manning is really old, what can he get out of it?

Harvard School? Brooklyn shook her head. It's a bit early to think about that. Compared to the Harvard school, he is now as fragile as a newborn baby, and he can't even recognize the Harvard school.

Brooklyn suppressed the strangeness in her mind and began to think about tomorrow's meeting. In this way, tomorrow's meeting will be very important!

Brooklyn's purpose in Boston was simple. The situation in New York is too chaotic, and Frank Reagan leads the Reagan family to ignite a war with the NYPD, and then all kinds of forces are involved.

New York is now Sarajevo. Brooklyn didn't want to stay in the powder keg any longer, he wanted to jump out of the chessboard, see the situation clearly, sort out the clues, and wait for the mastermind behind the scenes to surface.

When Brooklyn first woke up from his coma, he firmly believed that it was Frederick's 'big guy' who was about to be involved in the [Patriot] order to kill him.

Because Frederick was about to sign a plea agreement, protected by a witness protection program, they couldn't sit still.

The source of this perception comes from the identity of the person who was assassinated that night. He, Frank Reagan, David.

Frank Reagan and David don't need to be mentioned, Frederick is in their hands, and David is mainly responsible for handling the relevant documents.

He was the one Frederick insisted on meeting, and he had a grudge against Frederick, and Frederick insisted on seeing him, demanding that he sign the witness protection plan.

It's hard not to think that he's one of the insiders too. From this point of view, the three of them were assassinated on the same night, and the commonality is that they were all involved with Frederick, so it is logical that the assassination originated from Frederick's inference.

But Brooklyn always felt awkward, and it didn't feel that things were that simple. Because this idea is too smooth, too simple, and has too many loopholes.

If things really went against Freddrake, and none of the assassinations that night were successful, shouldn't remedial measures be taken immediately?

But no! After that night's assassination, everything came to an abrupt end. The mastermind behind the scenes did not continue to place orders on [Patriot] and did not take any action.

If he really wanted to die, Brooklyn believed that [Patriot] could easily do it. You know, the [Patriots] are essentially a hacker group, when Brooklyn was being rescued at Bellevue Public Hospital, [Patriots] only needed to hack into the Bellevue Public Hospital's server, and nothing else, only needed to cut off the power for ten minutes to kill him.

In the operating room, he was put on a defibrillator to restore his heartbeat. The power went out for ten minutes, the defibrillator was not working, and the physical signs monitoring equipment was not working, so he had already gone to the prefecture to report.

Such a great opportunity, why did you miss it? Why did the assassination come to an abrupt end? Moreover, Brooklyn himself knows his own affairs, and he also has many contradictions with the [Patriot].

Even if the mastermind behind the order no longer places the order, the [Patriot] can take this opportunity to take revenge on him.

But nothing happened! Although the assassination was dangerous, when analyzed in hindsight, it was a bit anticlimactic.

If you miss once, there will be no follow-up. It's as if someone deliberately stopped all this. After waking up, Brooklyn tried to contact Michael.

Looking back on the whole process of the assassination now, Michael's warning is very conspicuous, he obviously knows something, and even Brooklyn suspects that he has something to do with the [Patriot].

But Michael couldn't be contacted at all, as if relieved to learn that Brooklyn had not been assassinated, and reverted back to his previous state of not being heard from.

Brooklyn wasn't worried about Michael's safety. At first, they didn't have such a deep friendship, and Brooklyn always felt that Michael had some kind of purpose in helping him—he always remembered Michael's role in the Lenley Crewe incident.

Second, Brooklyn didn't believe that this cunning bag could be killed so easily.