There Was Neither Law Or Order

Among the many, many differences between Ben Stone and Jack McCoy was how both looked at the death penalty. When Stone was in the DA’s office, New York didn’t have it, but in ‘Vengeance’ in the middle of trying to convict a serial killer with a tricky lawyer, the Connecticut DA — where one of the victims came from — tried to persuade Stone to allow that state prosecute because they had the death penalty. While the argument for changing jurisdiction was pretty shaky, one of the major arguments Stone had for not going along was because he believed the death penalty more an act of revenge than of punishment. No one could say the same of Jack McCoy who from the moment it was returned to law in 1995, began using it at the center of most, if not all, of his prosecutions, either as a threat for a plea or just as a way to exact justice. The only time he ever seemed to regret it was when he witnessed an execution at the end of Season 6, which shook him to his core… for a few months. <a href="https://davidbmorris.medium.com/there-was-neither-law-and-order-c2f66c3cd374">Click Here</a>